A HEARING: FORGIVENESS, RESENTMENT AND RECOVERY IN LAW
by Stauffer, Jill
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) QLR. (30) 517 “One aim of a legal response to violence is to create a certain kind of present moment, one that does justice to a past that needs redress, while also opening up a future that is not fully determined by past harms. But what does violence sound like in a legal...
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Exclusionary School Punishment: The Effect of Racial Threat on Expulsion and Suspension
by Welch, Kelly
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 10(2) 155-171 Schools today frequently resort to punishments that exclude students from the classroom, such as expulsion, suspension, and in-school suspension, much like the criminal justice system excludes criminals from greater society....
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Dehumanization, retributive and restorative justice, and aggressive versus diplomatic intergroup conflict resolution strategies.
by Leidner, Bernhard
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 39(2):181-192 The desire for justice can escalate or facilitate resolution of intergroup conflicts. Two studies investigated retributive and restorative notions of justice as the mediating factor of the effect of perceived outgroup...
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Healing memory, ontological intimacy, and U.S. imprisonment: Toward a Christian politics of “good punishment” in civil society.
by Logan, James Samuel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Law and Contemporary Problems. 75(4):77-86. Another sign of the Christian practice of healing memories carried into the civil imagination is restorative justice. All too briefly articulated, models of restorative justice represent a more systemic, peaceable witness that...
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Restorative justice in schools: The influence of race on restorative discipline.
by Payne, Allison Ann
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Youth and Society. Published online before print January 24, 2013, doi: 10.1177/0044118X12473125. Schools today are more frequently using punitive discipline practices to control student behavior, despite the greater effectiveness of community-building techniques on compliance...
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Tempering idealism with realism: Using restorative justice processes to promote acceptance of responsibility cases of intimate partner violence.
by Hopkins, C. Quince
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Harvard Journal of Law and Gender. 35(2):311-355. This Article evaluates the potential use of “responsibility initiatives” in gender-based violence, with a specific focus on adult intimate partner violence. This Article analyzes the law’s role in furthering...
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Broadening our perspectives with restorative practices: An interview with Ted Wachtel.
by Kimball, Colette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) The Prevention Researcher. 20(1):21-24. While this issues has been focused around the topic of restorative justice, I think it is important to explore an approach which builds on restorative justice and takes it a step further, that of restorative practices. If restorative...
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Restorative justice conferencing, oral language competence, and young offenders: Are these high-risk conversations?
by Snow, Pamela
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) The Prevention Researcher. 20(1):18-20. Given the enormous reliance of children and adolescents on secure, nurturing, and emotionally present parents, it is not surprising that young people reared in dysfunctional environments display enormous difficulties in meeting the social...
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Practices and policies for implementing restorative justice within schools.
by Pavelka, Sandra
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) The Prevention Researcher. 20(1):15-17. Restorative justice models provide schools with the opportunity to improve school culture by addressing disciplinary standards and creating a forum for peaceful resolution of conflict and misbehavior. These models seek to determine the...
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Family group conferencing: A pilot project within the juvenile court system in Louisville, Kentucky.
by Hanley Duncan, Susan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) The Prevention Researcher. 20(1):11-14. The following article will: 1) define family group conferencing and provide evidence that supports its effectiveness; 2)discuss the step-by-step process of implementing and sustaining the Restorative Justice Louisville pilot project; 3)...
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The Fairness Committee: Restorative justice in a small urban public high school.
by Hantzopoulos, Maria
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) The Prevention Researcher. 20(1):7-10. This article focuses on one school, Humanities Preparatory Academy (Prep), a small New York City public high school that uses a restorative justice model called the Fairness Committee (Fairness) to address community norm violations. It is...
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Introducing restorative justice: Re-visioning responses to wrongdoing.
by Calhoun, Avery
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) The Prevention Researcher. 20(1):3-6. Learning about restorative justice involves examining conventional thinking about crime (or wrongdoing generally), values in relation to how people associated with wrongdoing are treated, and best responses when a wrongdoing occurs. In this...
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The promise of client-centered professional norms.
by Kruse, Katherine R.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Nevada Law Journal 12(2)341-349. In this year’s Saltman Lecture, Jennifer Gerarda Brown and Liana G.T. Wolf argue that restorative justice models have much to offer a broken attorney disciplinary system. 1 While their specific proposals are problematic for reasons...
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The paradox and promise of restorative attorney discipline.
by Brown, Jennifer Gerarda
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Nevada Law Journal. 12(2):253-315. Our contribution to this debate is to envision a specific structure and form for public participation in disciplinary processes. We draw upon theory and practice in the field of Restorative Justice. Developed primarily in the context of...
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Effective justice for victims of sexual assault: Taking up the debate on alternative pathways.
by Naylor, Bronwyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) University of New South Wales Law Journal. 33(3):662-684. The aim of this article is to take the debate forward and propose an alternative pathway for appropriate cases based on principles of restorative justice and therapeutic jurisprudence. Therapeutic jurisprudence focuses...
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