Defining Juvenile Justice in the 21st Century
by Merlo, Alida V
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. 1(3): 276-288. At its’ birth, the juvenile justice system was idealized as a humanitarian effort of child-savers who wanted to aid wayward youth by removing them from the clenches of the criminal justice system and providing them with...
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Operationalizing the Community Variable in Offender Reintegration: Theory and Practice for Developing Intervention Social Capital
by Bazemore, Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. 1(3): 246-275. Perhaps as a result of the large influx of incarcerated offenders during the 1990’s heyday of mandatory minimum sentences, a great deal of current policy and research has been focused on the reintegration of offenders...
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Empowering Families in Child Protection Cases: An Implementation Evaluation of Hawai’i’s ‘Ohana Conferencing Program
by Litchfield, Melissa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Reno, NV: National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. Family group conferencing (FGC) is a model utilized by family welfare systems that brings together members of the child’s family, extended kin networks, and members of the child’s community in order to...
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Coming to Terms with the Past: Lessons from War-Torn Countries
by Thomas, Nina K
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association. 109th meeting, San Francisco California. August 24-28, 2001. Countries are increasingly facing the question of transgenerational transmission of trauma from their previous acts of war, ethnic...
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Restorative Justice For Sexual Violence
by Koss, Mary
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 989: 384-396. Restore Program. Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health. Downloaded 23 October 2003. Problems in criminal justice system response to date and acquaintance rape, and the nonpenetration sexual offenses are...
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The New Regulatory State and the Transformation of Criminology
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) British Journal of Criminology. 40: 222-238. The article describes the major developmental trends in government policy as involving a shift from a welfare state, governed by Keynesian techniques of demand management to a new form of regulatory state, premised upon a neo-liberal...
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Zero Tolerance Policy in Schools: Rationale, Consequences, and Alternatives
by Casella, Ronnie
June 4, 2015
Source: (1930) Teachers College Record. 105(5): 872-892. This article discusses theory and related policies that support zero tolerance policy in schools, including rational choice theory in criminology and national crime policies based on deterrence. Potential consequences of zero tolerance...
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Zero Tolerance Criminal Policy and Restorative Justice: A Hidden Link?
by Lindström, Peter
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Elmar Weitekamp and Hans-Jurgen Kerner, eds. Restorative Justice in Context: International Practice and Directions.Devon, UK and Portland Oregon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 285-303. In order to achieve the goals of reduced crime and improved public security in Sweden, it is...
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Ways of Knowing for a Restorative Worldview
by Toews, Barb
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Elmar Weitekamp and Hans-Jurgen Kerner, eds. Restorative Justice in Context: International Practice and Directions.Devon, UK and Portland Oregon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 257-271. By rejecting the dominant form of justice and its colonizing effects, people that were once...
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Confession, Apology, Repentance and Settlement Out-of-Court in the Japanese Criminal Justice System — is Japan a Model of Restortative Justice?
by Yoshida, Toshio
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Elmar Weitekamp and Hans-Jurgen Kerner, eds. Restorative Justice in Context: International Practice and Directions.Devon, UK and Portland Oregon: Willan Publishing. Pp.173-196. Some criminologists in foreign countries have looked for the causes of the low Japanese crime...
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Victims of Severe Violence in Dialogue with the Offender: Key Principles, Practices, Outcomes and Implications
by Coates, Robert B
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Elmar Weitekamp and Hans-Jurgen Kerner, eds. Restorative Justice in Context: International Practice and Directions.Devon, UK and Portland Oregon: Willan Publishing. Pp.123-144. An increasing number of victims of sexual assault, attempted homicide, and survivors of murder...
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New Developments in Restorative Justice to Handle Family Violence
by Bannenberg, Britta
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Elmar Weitekamp and Hans-Jurgen Kerner, eds. Restorative Justice in Context: International Practice and Directions.Devon, UK and Portland Oregon: Willan Publishing. Pp.51-79. The question is posed whether criminal law and mediation can be helpful for women, the usual victims...
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Re-offending After Victim-offender Mediation in Juvenile Court Proceedings
by Hartmann, Arthur
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Elmar Weitekamp and Hans-Jurgen Kerner, eds. Restorative Justice in Context: International Practice and Directions.Devon, UK and Portland Oregon: Willan Publishing. Pp.208-228. The VOM cases were analyzed as a complete census; every mediation case falling into the period of...
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Legal Rules and Safeguards within Belgian Mediation Practices for Juveniles
by Durmortier, Els
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Elmar Weitekamp and Hans-Jurgen Kerner, eds. Restorative Justice in Context: International Practice and Directions.Devon, UK and Portland Oregon: Willan Publishing. Pp.197-207. A lack of legal rules and standards obliges Belgian Mediation Centers (BAS) to establish their own...
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Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation: A Pilot Programme in Munich Secondary Schools
by Nothhafft, Susanne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Elmar Weitekamp and Hans-Jurgen Kerner, eds. Restorative Justice in Context: International Practice and Directions.Devon, UK and Portland Oregon: Willan Publishing. Pp. 80-94. In the 1990’s, the Fachstelle mediation program noticed an increase in the number of cases...
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