Can We Welcome High-Risk Sex Offenders Back to the Community?
by Wilson, Robin J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Beyond Just Us. A newsletter published by the Forum on Restorative Community Justice. Spring/Summer 2003. Pp. 2. The term “pedophilia‿ refers to individuals sexually attracted to children. As Robin Wilson writes, pedophilia incites an enormously high degree of fear...
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The Fiscal Crisis and Restorative Justice
by Quinn, Thomas J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Beyond Just Us. A newsletter published by the Forum on Restorative Community Justice. Spring/Summer 2003. Pp. 1-2. According to Thomas Quinn, a national fiscal crisis threatens budgets in public agencies. In the sphere of law and order, for example, prison expenditures are...
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A Story of Restorative Justice Values and Principles in a School Setting
by Egan, Meredith
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Restorative Justice Week 2002 Resource Kit. Ottawa, Ontario: Restorative Justice and Dispute Resolution Branch, Correctional Services Canada. This paper consists of a resource tool for students, parents, and school staff to explore restorative justice values and principles in a...
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A Story of Community Conferencing
by Anonymous
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Restorative Justice Week 2002 Resource Kit. Ottawa, Ontario: Restorative Justice and Dispute Resolution Branch, Correctional Services Canada. This paper is a resource tool for people to reflect upon the needs of victims of crime in relation to restorative justice values and...
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A Story of a Peacemaking Circle
by Huculak, Bria
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Restorative Justice Week 2002 Resource Kit. Ottawa, Ontario: Restorative Justice and Dispute Resolution Branch, Correctional Services Canada. What are the advantages of using a Circle approach or process to address criminal offending? How does a Circle process differ from a...
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A Story of Mediation
by Janzen, Siegfried
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Restorative Justice Week 2002 Resource Kit. Ottawa, Ontario: Restorative Justice and Dispute Resolution Branch, Correctional Services Canada. Victim offender mediation is increasingly common in recent decades. Nevertheless, it is sometimes seen as inappropriate in cases...
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A Story of Victim Offender Mediation
by Jacobson, Robyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Restorative Justice Week 2002 Resource Kit. Ottawa, Ontario: Restorative Justice and Dispute Resolution Branch, Correctional Services Canada. This paper is a resource to help others reflect on two aspects of victim offender mediation (VOM): (a) what constitutes success in VOM;...
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Principles and Values of Restorative Justice
by Harris, Scott
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Restorative Justice Week 2002 Resource Kit. Ottawa, Ontario: Restorative Justice and Dispute Resolution Branch, Correctional Services Canada. Scott Harris works in the Restorative Justice Unit of the Correctional Service of Canada. In this paper, part of a restorative justice...
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Towards a Justice that Heals
by Miller-Ashton, Jane
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Restorative Justice Week 2002 Resource Kit. Ottawa, Ontario: Restorative Justice and Dispute Resolution Branch, Correctional Services Canada. Jane Miller-Ashton is Director General of the Restorative Justice and Dispute Resolution Branch of the Correctional Service of Canada. In...
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Do Current Sentencing Practices Work?
by Davies, G L
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Criminal Law Journal. 24: 236-247. Imprisonment is traditionally thought to be an effective method of significantly reducing the crime rate. However, it is argued that imprisonment is at best only marginally related to crime reduction, despite the continuing imposition of more...
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Restorative Justice in Diverse and Unequal Societies
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Law in Context. 17(1): 167-190. Daly considers the role that restorative justice may play in unequal societies, with a focus on racial and ethnic inequalities. The literature that has emerged around restorative justice often claims that restorative justice delivers more...
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La Justice pour les enfants soldats: Développements, défis, dilemmes.
by Clark, Christina
June 4, 2015
Source: London: Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. Downloaded 11 September 2003. Les problèmes de responsabilité dans le domaine des enfants soldats représentent un défi quant àla protection des enfants et àla réconciliation de communautés déchirés par...
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Juvenile Justice and Child Soldiering: Trends, Challenges, Dilemmas
by Clark, Christina
June 4, 2015
Source: London: Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. Downloaded 11 September 2003. It is a fact that armed forces in various conflicts around the world press children into duty as soldiers. As Archbishop Desmond Tutu has remarked, child solider are both victims and perpetrators of...
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Restorative Justice: Some Biblical Perspectives.
by Thorburn, Stan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) An address to a breakfast meeting during the PFI Convocation 2003 in Toronto Canada. Thorbun discusses the growing interest in restorative justice and the reasons policy makers are looking at such alternatives. He then turns to a discussion of Christianity and justice. He probes...
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Discussion Paper: Draft Principles of Best Practice for Restorative Justice Processes in the Criminal Court
by King, Andrea
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Ministry of Justice. New Zealand’s program of restorative justice is at a significant stage of development. As such, this publication offers the principles of best practice in the field in an attempt to help frame policy for restorative...
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