Sexual Offending and Restorative Justice: The Challenge for Family Conferencing Practice in South Australia.
by Doig, Marnie
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper presented at the Restoration for Victims of Crime Conferecne convended by the Australian Institute of Criminology in conjunction with Victims Referral and Assistance Service and held in Melbourne, September 1999. Australian Institute of Criminology. Down loaded 12 July...
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Aboriginal Sex Offenders: Melding Spiritual Healing With Cognitive-Behavioural Treatment
by Williams, Sharon
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Correctional Services Canada. Down loaded 12 July 2003. With increased attention to the realities of aboriginal offending and incarceration in recent years, specific issues relating to aboriginal offending have been addressed more intentionally, including the serious problem of...
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Issues in Urban Corrections for Aboriginal People
by Nuffield, Joan
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Aboriginal Peoples Collection. Aboriginal Corrections Unit. Ottawa: Solicitor General Canada. This document consists of a report on a focus group held in June 1997 to discuss issues related to the provision of urban Aboriginal corrections services in Canada. The focus group...
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Understanding the Role of Healing in Aboriginal Communities
by Krawll, Marcia B
June 4, 2015
Source: (1994) Aboriginal Peoples Collection. Solicitor General Canada. The term “healingâ€? is widely used but perhaps not well understood, asserts Marcia Krawll. Hence, in this report Krawll seeks to develop a common understanding of “healingâ€? among...
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Review Essay: The Japanese Way of Justice: An Up-Close Look at Japan’s Jack McCoy. A Review of the Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime In Japan By David T. Johnson.
by Anderson, Kent
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal. 4:7. This article consists of a review by Kent Anderson of David T. Johnsonxe2x80x99s book The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan (2002). Anderson characterizes Johnsonxe2x80x99s book as a contextual examination of how crime...
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner — Fifth Report 1997
by Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Trish
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission This article details certain diversionary schemes that have been used in the juvenile justice system for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Scepticism about some diversionary schemes has developed because of a...
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Diversionary Schemes
by Luker, Trish
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Legal Information Access Centre, No. 23 This article describes two types of pre-court diversionary processes used in youth offences: police warnings and family group conferencing. The aim of conferencing in terms of this article is to “encourage young people to take...
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Overview (What is Juvenile Justice?)
by Luker, Trish
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Legal Information Access Centre, No. 23 This article describes the changing nature of the justice system in Australia, with one side leaning towards tougher punishments and the other focusing more on restorative justice measures. An overview of youth crime is giving, including...
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What is Reconciliation?
by Nettheim, Garth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Legal Information Access Centre, No. 33 This article gives the basic definition of reconciliation and describes reconciliation commissions that have been established in Australia as well as other nations. The Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in Australia has aided in...
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Types of Punishment
by Figgis, Honor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Legal Information Access Centre, No. 28 This article includes a variety of punishments and penalties for offenders, including restorative justice. RJ is described as “dealing with offenders by bringing them together with their victim to reach a mutual agreement about...
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Crime and its Discontent: Recent South African Responses and Policies
by van der Spuy, Elrena
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Crime and Policing in Transitional Societies conference held at South African Institute Of International Affairs. 30 August- 1 September. KONRAD ADENAUER STIFTUNG. Downloaded 25 June 03. In this essay, Elrena van der Spuy looks at the shifting crime...
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“The Politics Fits the Crime”: Competing Interpretations of Victim Empowerment in South Africa
by Simpson, Graeme
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Crime and Policing in Transitional Societies conference held at South African Institute Of International Affairs. 30 August- 1 September. KONRAD ADENAUER STIFTUNG. Downloaded 25 June 03. Graeme Simpson maintains in this paper that competing approaches to...
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Embodying forgiveness
by Graham, Stephen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Lion & Lamb 31 (Winter). Belfast, Northern Ireland: Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Ireland. Embodying Forgiveness is a project of the Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Ireland. The project is meant to assist Christians in Northern Ireland to reflect on their...
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The New Governance of Probation
by Wargent, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) The Howard Journal. 41(2): 182-200. There is a richness of material around the subject of governance and public service, much of which is relevant to the organisation of probation as a public service in the new millenium. It is possible to be excited, concerned, dismayed and...
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The International Criminal Court and Its Implication for Domestic Law and National Capacity Building
by Ellis, Mark S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Florida Journal of Intenrational Law. 15: 215. Growing out of various international initiatives over a long period of time – notably the Rome Diplomatic Conference in 1998 that adopted the International Criminal Court Statute – the International Criminal Court...
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