Alternative practice for juvenile justice in Flanders (Belgium): the case for mediation
by Claes, Mia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 255-270. As the authors of this essay point out, from the early twentieth century to the present the underlying premise of the Belgian juvenile justice system has been that youth need...
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The possibilities for restorative justice in Serbia
by Nikolic-Ristanovic, Vesna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 239-254. Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic writes that large-scale victimization in the former Yugoslavia led to public discussion and actions in the direction of applying restorative justice in...
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Restorative justice in prison?
by Hagemann, Otmar
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 221-236. According to Ottmar Hagemann, programs that could be classified as forms of restorative justice are currently being implemented in prisons in various countries. In this vein,...
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Restorative justice for adult offenders: the New Zealand Experience.
by Morris, Allison
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 208-220. In reality, as Morris and Maxwell comment, most fully integrated restorative justice processes deal with juvenile offenders. Likewise, most jurisdictions introducing such processes...
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Community mediation, criminal justice, and restorative justice: rearranging the institutions of law
by Blad, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 191-207. According to John Blad, community mediation projects have been initiated in an increasing number of Dutch towns and cities in the last decade. The model for many of the projects...
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Researching the prospects for restorative justice practice in schools: the ‘Life at School Survey’ 1996-99.
by Braithwaite, Valerie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 169-190. While restorative justice theory and practice generally began and developed in the sphere of criminal justice, a number of people are exploring and applying restorative justice...
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Juvenile Offenders’ perceptions of community service
by Delens-Ravier, Isabelle
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 149-166. The option of community service has been in use for many years. Some consider it to offer many possibilities, in terms of both punishment and rehabilitation. Depending on the legal...
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Differences in how girls and boys respond to family group conferences: preliminary research results
by Maxwell, Gabrielle
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp.136-148. The authors of this chapter claim that research indicates that family group conferences have the potential to achieve several positive objectives: to induce remorse in offenders; to...
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Evaluating the practice of restorative justice: the case of family group conferencing
by Harris, Nathan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 121-135. As the popularity of restorative justice has increased, the debate has grown in restorative justice circles regarding the degree to which it can replace mainstream forms of justice....
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A survey assessment research on mediation and conferencing
by McCold, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 67-120. In this chapter, Paul McCold surveys thirty years (1971-2001) of evaluation research of restorative justice programs. The aim is to determine what evidence exists for the probable...
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Alternative conflict resolution and restorative justice: a discussion
by Lemonne, Anne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 43-64. As Anne Lemonne observes, advocacy and application of restorative justice have grown considerably since its emergence in the 1970s. This growth has led to a significant variety in...
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Restorative justice: a discussion of punishment?
by Willemsens, Jolien
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 24-42. Jolien Willemsens argues that for restorative justice to become the philosophy for the whole justice system, as against being just some alternative practices on the edge of the...
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Is it time to question the concept of punishment?
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 3-23. Martin Wright begins this paper with a short but graphic catalogue of ways in which humans have punished people over millennia. Restorative justice, he asserts, is an attempt to find a...
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Introduction
by Walgrave, Lode
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Lode Walgrave, ed., Repositioning Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. Pp. vii-xii. Editor of this second collection of papers presented at a 2001 conference in Leuven, Belgium, on restorative justice, Lode Walgrave also provides an introduction to the collection....
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Repositioning Restorative Justice
by Walgrave, Lode
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. In the last twenty or so years, restorative justice has moved from a position of obscurity to widespread recognition in criminological and criminal justice contexts. As part of this growth, a great many conferences around the world –...
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