Book Review: A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands.
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Justice Online. July 2003 Edition. This collection of essays grew out of the conference xe2x80x98Restorative Justice and Conflict Management in the Pacific Islandsxe2x80x99 hosted by the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project at Australia National...
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Colombia’s Houses of Justice.
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Justice Online. July 2003 Edition. In 1995, the Government of Colombia, with financial support from USAID, established two Casas de Justicia, Houses of Justice, in poor communities whose residents were otherwise denied meaningful access to justice. The purpose of the...
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Book Review: Restorative Justice in Context: International Practice and Directions.
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Justice Online. August 2003 Edition. This volume grew out of the 4th International Conference on Restorative Justice for Juveniles, held in 2000. With chapters reflecting wide geographical as well as thematic coverage, the collection reviews a number of key...
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Responding to Juvenile Crime in Thailand.
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Justice Online. August 2003 Edition. Families and victims to get their say and Families are to get rehab role are two headlines appearing in the Bangkok Post in June. The articles refer to an announcement by the Juvenile Observation and Protection Department of its...
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Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice: Just Responses to Crime?
by Shapland, Joanna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Andrew von Hirsch, et. al., eds., Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice: Competing or Reconcilable Paradigms? Oxford and Portland, Orgeon: Hart Publishing. Pp. 195-218. In her chapter Joanna Shapland focuses on restorative justice in its legal and structural context and,...
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Apology in the Criminal Justice Setting: Evidence for Including Apology as an Additional Component in the Legal System
by Petrucci, Carrie J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Behavioral Sciences and the Law. 20: 337-362. As Carrie Petrucci remarks, the scope of the criminal justice system in the United States is immense and growing. Increases in numbers of offenders and criminal justice budgets have fueled two opposing trends. One trend involves more...
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Rethinking Justice
by Small, Mark A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Behavioral Sciences and the Law. 20: 309-315. Mark Small and Robin Kimbrough-Melton open this essay with the assertion that the changing nature of family and community life poses significant challenges for the administration of justice in the twenty-first century. In view of...
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Creating Guidelines for Restorative Justice Programmes.
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Justice Online. August 2003 Edition. In 2002, the United Nations Economic and Social Council endorsed Basic Principles on the Use of Restorative Justice Programmes in Criminal Matters. In paragraph 12, the Basic Principles urge governments to create guidelines and...
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A Teen Court Evaluation with a Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective
by Weisz, Victoria
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Behavioral Sciences and the Law. 20: 381-392. Among the rise of specialty courts, teen courts show promise as a community-based approach to youth crime, write the authors of this article. Teen courts typically deal with first time, non-violent offenders who have admitted their...
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Restorative Justice Innovations in Canada
by Huculak, Bria
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Behavioral Sciences and the Law. 20: 363-380. According to the authors of this paper, the Canadian justice system is unsatisfactory for both victims and offenders. Many people have become disillusioned with the criminal justice system, and many jurisdictions have adopted...
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Restorative Justice and the Children’s Hearings– A Proposal
by Mackay, Robert
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. 11(1):1-17. This article offers a proposal about how to develop Restorative Justice approaches within Scottish Children’s Hearing system. The proposal is that the Children’s Hearing itself should be the...
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The Limits of Reconciliation: The Story of a Perpetrator, Katherine Ann Power
by Landman, Janet
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Social Justice Research. 14(2):171-188. In this paper, I apply concepts of restorative justice, along with moral philosopher Joanna North’s (1998) multistage model of the process of earning forgiveness to the case of 1960s antiwar militant, Katherine Power. Both...
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From Moral Theory to Penal Attitudes and Back: A Theoretically Integrated Modeling Approach
by de Keijser, Jan Willem
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Behavioral Sciences and the Law. 20: 317-335. Within the frameworks of utilitarianism, retributivism, and restorative justice, the authors of this paper focus on judges’ attitudes towards the goals and functions of punishment. While punishment is widely accepted as a...
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Regret, Reconciliation, and Restorative Justice: Introduction to A Special Issue of Social Justice Research
by Cohen, Ronald
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Social Justice Research. 14(2): 121-124. On close examination, distinctions among victims, perpetrators, and bystanders lose their clarity and simplicity, but not their importance. Each of the papers in this Special Issue addresses three of the complexities such a close...
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Provocations of Restorative Justice
by Cohen, Ronald
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Social Justice Research. 14(2): 209-232. Depending on whom you ask, restorative justice is a concept, a theory, or a social movement. It is also, variously, ‘new wine in old bottles,’ ‘atavistic’ and ‘fundamentally misguided,’ (e.g., Delgado...
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