A Study of School Zero Tolerance Policies
by Oklahoma Council on Violence Prevention
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma Criminal Justice Resource Center. Downloaded 2 March 2004. The phrase “zero toleranceâ€? came into use to describe a program allowing seizure of property of anyone carrying drugs into the United States, no matter how small the...
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Family receives life sentence: A mother’s perspective
by Snyder, Emma Jo
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) The Crime Victims Report 4 (May/June): 23-24, 30. A fundamental perspective in the victims’ movement is that crime involves harm to people not just transgression of state and law. Hence, victims must be integral to understanding and responding to crime. Emma Jo Snyder...
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The healing and transforming power of community circles
by Ober, Angela
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) The Crime Victims Report 4 (May/June): 19. As Angela Ober writes, healing circles provide a means of addressing the harm caused to a community by wrongdoing. A healing circle provides community members two opportunities: a process that cultivates trust, understanding, and...
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Victim services aid prosecutors
by Flynn, Errol
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) The Crime Victims Report 4 (May/June): 25. Errol Flynn is an assistant district attorney in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. As such he speaks from experience in stating that for too long prosecutors have thought of victims only as witnesses needed to identify the perpetrator of a...
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Victims Rights Unit serves both victim and court
by Carpenter, Milton
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) The Crime Victims Report 4 (May/June): 17-18, 26. In 1996 the state of Arizona passed legislation providing rights for the victims of juvenile offenses. To ensure these rights, a Victims Rights Unit (VRU) was established in the Maricopa County Juvenile Probation Department. The...
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The Role of Restorative Justice in the Battered Women’s Movement
by Frederick, Loretta
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Battered Women’s Justice Project. Downloaded 1 March 2004. To the extent that practices of the CJS, the battered women’s movement and the restorative justice movement (when applied to domestic violence cases) are effective, redemptive and liberating, they must...
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Handbook of Policing
by Newburn, Tim
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Portland, OR and Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. Chapters on policing in its comparative and historical context consider the major models of policing and how they developed, how policing is best theorized and understood, how policing was organized before formal state agencies...
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Truth, Reconciliation and Justice: The South African Experience in Perspective
by Asmal, Kader
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) The 1999 Chorley Lecture presented at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Thursday 4 November 1999. Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. Downloaded 11 February 2004. In this lecture, Kader Asmal, minister of education for South Africa, reflects on truth,...
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Albert Eglash and Creative Restitution: A Precursor to Restorative Practices
by Mirsky, Laura
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Practice E-Forum. December 3. International Institute of Restorative Practices. Downloaded 11 February 2004. As Laura Mirsky writes, psychologist Albert Eglash developed the concept of creative restitution in the 1950s. Eglash, working with adults and youths involved...
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Addressing Bullying in Schools: Theory and Practice
by Rigby, Ken
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Australian Institute of Criminology Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. Downloaded 17 February 2004. This paper examines the strengths and weaknesses of five different explanations of school bullying.First,...
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The Wet’suwet’en Unlocking Aboriginal Justice Program: Restorative Practices in British Columbia, Canada
by Mirsky, Laura
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Practices E-Forum. October 21. International Institute of Restorative Practices. Downloaded 11 February 2004. The Wet’ suwet’ en First Nation is an aboriginal people in northwest British Columbia, Canada. The Wet’ suwet’ en Unlocking...
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Facing the Victims
by Keeva, Steven
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) ABA Journal. Jan.(90): 71-73. Restorative justice programs and practices take a number of forms with each having particular purposes or aims. In this article, Steven Keeva describes his visit to a maximum security prison in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to observe a program for inmates...
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Toward a Theoretical Model of Peacemaking Criminology: An Essay in Honor of Richard Quinney
by Wozniak, John F
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Crime and Deliquency. 48(2): 204-231. In previous research,cor e peacemaking criminology themes addressed by authors within the Pepinsky and Quinney reader were examined. These peacemaking criminology themes are types of crimes/social harms embedded in current social...
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Tower Hamlets Youth Justice Plan 2003-2004
by Johnson, Stuart
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) London Borough of Tower Hamlets and City of London. Metropolitan Police. Downloaded 10 February 2004. Tower Hamlets Youth Justice Strategy for 2003-2004 and results for 2002-2003. The targets achieved by the team are: 1: reduce the number of young offenders committing offences...
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La mediacion en Mexico
by Trevino Guerra, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Tesis. Que para obtener el TÃÂtulo de Licenciado en Derecho. Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey. Downloaded 10 February 2004. El presente trabajo ha sido dividido en dos grandes apartados. El primero de ellos, ‘La Mediación en el �?mbito Legal’ engloba...
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