A Look at the Victims (Victimology and the challenges facing prison pastoral services)
by Perez Guadalupe, Jose Luis
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at International Prison Chaplains Association Conference Kronstad, South Africa, August 25-30, 2000. International Prison Chaplains Association. Downloaded 9 December 2003. The victim of a crime, writes Jose Luis Perez Guadalupe, is the forgotten person in police...
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Justice, Politics and Family Victims: The Humanisation of Sentencing in Homicide Cases
by Booth, Tracey
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Paper submitted for the XIth International Symposium on Victimology. 13-18 July 2003, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Downloaded 21 August 2003. Tracey Booth begins by pointing to developments in the last two decades that have given victims integral roles in courtroom procedures and...
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The Needs of Victims and Survivors of Genocide in Rwanda and Programs to Alleviate the Burden
by Beckers, Martine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Paper submitted for the XIth International Symposium on Victimology. 13-18 July 2003, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Downloaded 21 August 2003. In this paper, Martine Beckers looks at violence and the victims of genocide and massacres that took place in Rwanda in 1994. She...
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Hidden Victims of the Criminal Justice System?
by Luyt, W F M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Paper submitted for the XIth International Symposium on Victimology. 13-18 July 2003, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Downloaded 21 August 2003. As W.F.M. Luyt notes, it is often said that imprisonment is the paradigm of sentencing. While per capita rates of incarceration vary from...
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Flexibility on Both Sides
by Editor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Te Ara Whaketika: newsletter of the court-reffered restorative justice project. July/August. 17. Ministry of Justice New Zealand. Downloaded 9 December 2003. In this article, Alison Hill, project manager for a court-referred restorative justice pilot in Dunedin, New Zealand,...
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Acknowledging Responsibility for Actions
by Editor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Te Ara Whaketika: newsletter of the court-reffered restorative justice project. July/August. 17. Ministry of Justice New Zealand. Downloaded 9 December 2003. One of the principles of restorative justice is that an offender should take responsibility for his or her actions....
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International Study Focuses on New Zealand
by Editor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Te Ara Whaketika: newsletter of the court-reffered restorative justice project. July/August. 17. Ministry of Justice New Zealand. Downloaded 9 December 2003. As this article notes, New Zealand’s use of restorative justice has gained the interest of a group of Japanese...
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A ‘Just and Caring Society’
by Editor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Te Ara Whaketika: newsletter of the court-reffered restorative justice project. July/August. 17. Ministry of Justice New Zealand. Downloaded 9 December 2003. Presbyterian Support Otago is a social agency that runs a variety of initiatives aimed at creating a “just...
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Giving a Face to Crime: Report on the Second Phase of the Restorative Justice Initiative Victim Offender Conference Project
by Dissel, Amanda
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Report of the Restorative Juctice Initiative, April 2003. Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. Downloaded 9 December 2003. This document consists of a report on the second phase of a victim offender conferencing (VOC) project run by the Restorative Justice...
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Reason for Emotion: Reinventing Justice With Theories, Innovations, and Research-The American Society of Criminology 2002 Presidential Address
by Sherman, Lawrence W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Criminology. 41(1): 7-37. As Lawrence Sherman observes, for three hundred years criminology has tried to make reason rather than emotion the primary method of justice. The results though have only been modestly successful because of a paradox. Namely, societies assume that crime...
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Developing a New Framework for Evaluating Restorative Justice Programs
by Forget, Marc
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Restorative Justice, June 2003. The Centre for Restorative Justice. Simon Fraser University. Downloaded 8 December 2003. Marc Forget begins this paper with the observation that the ideal of personal liberation or...
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40 Cases. Restorative Justice and Victim-Offender Mediation
by Liebmann, Marian
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Bristol: Mediation UK. Paul Crosland and Marian Liebmann are editors of this book, a collection of forty case studies in restorative justice and victim-offender mediation (VOM). The editors’ aim in this collection is to present for examination and reflection the...
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Transforming Relationships Through Participatory Justice
by Law Commission of Canada
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Ottawa, ON: Law Commission of Canada. Downloaded 9 December 2003. Over the past three years, the Law Commission of Canada has consulted with Canadians about meaningful methods of resolving conflicts. The Commission’s consultations revealed that Canadians want choices for...
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Nurturing the tree of peace.
by Swarr, Carolyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) In Peace Office Newsletter 32 (January-March), The African Peacebuilding Institute: 1-4. Akron, PA: Mennonite Central Committee. In this essay, Carl and Carolyn Swarr Stauffer describe the genesis, purpose, and growth of the African Peacebuilding Institute. Launched in the first...
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More about the API
by Stauffer, Carl
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) In Peace Office Newsletter 32 (January-March), The African Peacebuilding Institute: 10. Akron, PA: Mennonite Central Committee. This article contains an overview of the work and participant experiences of the first African Peacebuilding Institute based on an evaluation report...
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