Restorative Programs in the Formal Justice System of Vanuatu
by Lunabek, Vincent
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Sinclair Dinnen, Anita Jowitt, and Tess Newton Cain, eds., A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands. Canberra, ACT: Pandanus Books. Pp. 105-108. Vincent Lunabek, a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vanuatu, describes the use of alternative dispute...
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Vanuatu Law, The Police, and Restorative Justice
by Bong, Peter
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Sinclair Dinnen, Anita Jowitt, and Tess Newton Cain, eds., A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands. Canberra, ACT: Pandanus Books. Pp. 101-104. Peter Bong describes the steps that the Vanuatu police have taken towards community policing. He outlines the...
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Restorative Justice and Women in Vanuatu
by Naviti, Rita
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Sinclair Dinnen, Anita Jowitt, and Tess Newton Cain, eds., A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands. Canberra, ACT: Pandanus Books. Pp. 95-99. Rita Naviti questions the applicability of restorative processes in male dominated societies. While agreeing...
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Tribal Warfare and Transformative Justice in the New Guinea Highlands
by Rumsey, Alan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Sinclair Dinnen, Anita Jowitt, and Tess Newton Cain, eds., A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands. Canberra, ACT: Pandanus Books. Pp. 73-43. Rumsey describes the cycles of tribal warfare and the creation of trade relationships in the Western highlands...
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The Age Of Steam: Constructed Identity and Recalcitrant Youth in a Papua New Guinea Village
by Goddard, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Sinclair Dinnen, Anita Jowitt, and Tess Newton Cain, eds., A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands. Canberra, ACT: Pandanus Books. Pp. 45-71. Michael Goddard describes the Village Court in Pari Village Port Moresby, Papua New Guine. The institution of...
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The Fundamentals of Restorative Justice
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Sinclair Dinnen, Anita Jowitt, and Tess Newton Cain, eds., A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands. Canberra, ACT: Pandanus Books. Pp. 35-43. Through his discussion of the fundamentals of restorative justice, John Braithwaite describes empowerment or...
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Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands: An Introduction.
by Dinnen, Sinclair
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In, Sinclair Dinnen, Anita Jowitt, and Tess Newton Cain, eds., A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands. Canberra, ACT: Pandanus Books. Pp. 1-34. In his introduction to this collection of essays, Sinclair Dinnen describes the situation of the Pacific Islands...
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A Kind of Mending: Retorative Justice in the Pacific Islands
by Dinnen, Sinclair
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Canberra, ACT: Pandanus Books. This collection of essays grew out of the conference ‘Restorative Justice and Conflict Management in the Pacific Islands’ hosted by the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project at Australia National University and the Law...
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Dignity Denied: The Experience of Murder Victims’ Family Members Who Oppose the Death Penalty
by Cushing, Robert R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Cambridge, MA: Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation. Downloaded 15 July 2004. There is a need for policies to challenge the victim services community to develop a protocol that recognizes opposition to the death penalty as a valid response to the trauma of murder....
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A Little Place Making a Big Impact: Deschutes County’s Mark on Juvenile Justice
by O'Brien, Sandra
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Juvenile and Family Justice Today. 12(1):17-22. In 1986, the officials in Deschutes County proposed that the juvenile court balance public safety, offender accountability, and offender competency development when presiding over juvenile delinquency cases. The balanced approach...
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Family Group Conferences Offer Promise for Juvenile Cases
by Lavery, Timothy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Washington, DC: US Dept of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention This report presents the methodology and findings from an evaluation of the juvenile family group conference program operated by a probation department in rural Illinois. In the study...
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Communities, Conferences and Restorative Social Justice
by White, Rob
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Criminal Justice. 3(2): 139-160. This article discusses how community-building in Australia can be integrated into the practices of juvenile justice work, with attention to the need for conceptualizing juvenile delinquency prevention and juvenile sanctioning as a community task....
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Offenders’ Family Members’ Responses to Capital Crimes: The Need for Restorative Justice Initiatives
by Beck, Elizabeth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Homicide Studies. 7(2):154-181. Based on qualitative interviews with 19 family members of homicide offenders tried in capital cases in the South, this study broadens the discussion of punishment for homicide to include using restorative justice to supplement the traditional...
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Book Review: Restorative Justice and the Law.
by Strong, Gregory
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Justice Online. May 2003 Edition. As restorative justice has developed over the last two decades, one of the critical issues for theory and practice has been the relationship between restorative justice and formal law. The authors in this book explore many aspects of...
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Mediation in Catalonia.
by Dapena, José
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Justice Online. May 2003 Edition. From 1990 to 1999, victim offender mediation programmes for juvenile offenders developed in the Catalonia region of Spain. Using the broad discretionary powers offered to juvenile court judges under the 1948 law of Juvenile Courts...
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