Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation: Judging the Fairness of Amnesty in South Africa
by Gibson, James L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) American Journal of Political Science. 46(3): 540-556. Nations in transition to democratic governance often must address the political atrocities committed under the ancien regime. A common response is some sort of ‘truth commission’, typically with the power to...
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Buckinghamshire Youth Justice Plan Update
by Buckinghamshire Youth Offending Service, Rose
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Buckinghamshire County Council. Downloaded 5 February 2004. Buckinghamshire Youth Offending Service (YOS) is a multi-agency team (from Social Services, Police, Education, and Health) working to prevent and reduce youth offending. This document consists of a review of the work of...
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Community conferencing in Victorian schools: maximising protective factors
by Armstrong, Margaret
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Paper presented at the The Role of Schools in Crime Prevention Conference convened by the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Department of Education, Employment and Training, Victoria, and Crime Prevention Victoria. Melbourne, 30 Sept.-1 Oct. Australian Institute of...
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Research Framework for a Review of Community Justice in Yukon
by Kattackal, Rose
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Whitehorse, Yukon: Government of Yukon. Downloaded 4 February 2004. This document consists of a research framework for a review of community justice in the Yukon done by Rose Kattackal for Yukon Justice. As Kattackal notes, a diverse range of interests influences community...
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Why Sentencing Circles Might Improve the Way Courts Communicate
by Christian, Peg
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) VOMA Connections. Fall (15): 12. As Peg Christian puts it, offenders who are being sentenced often do not understand their court-imposed sentence and instructions. Various factors on the day of sentencing – for example, stress on the offender, the language of the courts,...
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Legislative Statutes on Victim Offender Mediation: A National Review
by Umbreit, Mark S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) VOMA Connections. Fall (15): 5-9,11. In this article, Umbreit, Lightfoot, and Fier document the existing statutory authority relating to victim-offender mediation (VOM) in states in the United States. A dialogue between crime victims and offenders, VOM is a bedrock of...
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VOMA Assists Romanian Efforts to Establish Mediation Services
by Raye, Barbara
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) VOMA Connections. Fall (15): 4. According to the authors of this paper, there is no legislative framework in Romania to regulate and encourage the use of alternative conflict resolution services. Nevertheless, the Community Mediation and Safety Center (CMSC) in Iasi, Romania,...
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Conferences and Membership Maintain Restorative Justice Values
by Wiese, Sue
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) VOMA Connections. Fall (15): 3,15. In this essay, Susan Wiese celebrates the history of the Victim Offender Mediation Association (VOMA) and its role in advancing principles and practices of restorative justice in the United States and other countries. She traces the early...
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Models of Criminal Justice Ministry and Resistance: A Southern Christian Perspecitve
by Wray, Harmon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) VOMA Connections. Fall (15): 1,10-11. Harmon Wray begins this article with observations about culture and demographics in the southern region of the United States and the interplay between those factors and criminal justice perspectives and approaches. Specifically, he states...
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Restoring School Communities: A Report on the Colorado Restorative Justice in Schools Program
by Ierley, Alice
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Research and Practice Insert. Voma Connections. Winter (13). The School Mediation Center (Boulder, Colorado) received funding from certain government agencies to develop restorative justice programs in Boulder and Broomfield, communities in Colorado. This led to a Restorative...
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Do Sleeping Dogs Lie?: The psychological implications of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
by Hamber, Brandon
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Seminar no. 5. Johannesburg, South Africa: Centre for Study of Violence and Reconciliation. Downloaded 20 October 03. Making this presentation around the time of the formation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in consequence of the Promotion of National Unity and...
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Juvenile Justice in Spain: Past and Present
by Rechea Alberola, Cristina
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 19(4): 384-412. Although the juvenile justice system in Spain emerged at the beginning of the 20th century, in accordance with the general movement at that moment in theWestern world, the distinctive circumstance of the Franco...
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In Praise of Dangerous Thoughts
by Young, Jock
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Punishment and Society. 5(1): 97-107. In this review article, Jock Young discusses a collection of essays edited by David Garland and Richard Sparks and titled Criminology and Social Theory (Oxford University Press, 2000). In the book, a distinguished group of social theorists...
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Situating and Researching Restorative Justice in Great Britain
by Miers, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Punishment and Society. 6(1): 23-46. This article reviews the primary claims made for restorative justice as a response to offending. It summarizes Home Office research published in 2001 which evaluated seven restorative justice schemes operating in England during the 1990s. The...
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Parental Sanctions and Delinquent Behavior: Toward Clarification of Braithwaite’s Theory of Reintegrative Shaming
by Hay, Carter
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Theoretical Criminology. 2(4): 419-443. A decade ago, John Braithwaite (1989) put forth an innovative theory on crime causation in Crime, Shame and Reintegration. In his theory of reintegrative shaming, Braithwaite locates the source of crime control in reactions to deviance...
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