The wrong answer to a serious problem: A story of school shootings, politics and automatic transfer
by Traver, Daniel E.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 31 (Winter): 281. In recent years, a number of shootings at schools has shocked the American people and generated a variety of responses in attempts to deal with the offenders and prevent future incidents. Many state legislatures proposed...
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Victim-Offender Mediation With Violent Offenders: Implications for Modification of the VORP (Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program) Model
by Umbreit, Mark S
June 4, 2015
Source: (1990) In, Emilio Viano, ed., The Victimology Handbook: Research Findings, Treatment, and Public Policy. New York: Garland Publishing Inc. Pp. 337-35. Initially begun in Kitchner, Ontario, in the mid-1970’s and then introduced in the United States in 1978, Victim-Offender...
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Extrajudicial Mediation and Arbitration: Evaluation of German Victim-Offender-Reconciliation Programs.
by Bilsky, W
June 4, 2015
Source: (1990) International Journal of Conflict Management. 1(4):357-373. Results from four evaluative studies are presented for the oldest of the programs, the Brunswick mediation program. Evaluative criteria include number of delinquent acts suited to mediation, the actual amount of...
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Minnesota Mediation Center Produces Positive Results
by Umbreit, Mark S
June 4, 2015
Source: (1991) Corrections Today. 53(5): 192, 194-196. The evaluation, which began in 1989, was based on post-mediation interviews with a sample of 51 victims and 66 juvenile offenders. A total of 379 cases were referred to the Center in 1989. Fifty-six percent of the referrals involved...
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Report of the Extern Working Party on Neighbourhood Disputes in Northern Ireland
by McQuoid, T
June 4, 2015
Source: (1990) Belfast: Extern Organisation (Cirac). Extern Ctre for Independent Research and Analysis of Crime The Extern Organisation in Northern Ireland initiated a research effort in 1985 to explore the potential of mediation as an alternative method of dispute resolution; the group felt...
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Mediation in Juvenile Justice Settings.
by Smith, M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) Journal for Juvenile Justice and Detention Services. 8(1): 51-55. This article describes how mediation has been used in parent/juvenile conflicts, victim-offender restitution agreements, conflict resolution in juvenile corrections facilities, school-based conflicts, and...
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National Victim Services Survey of Adult and Juvenile Corrections and Parole Agencies: Final Report.
by American Correctional Association, J M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1991) Washington, DC: US Dept of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime. Representatives of State adult and juvenile corrections agencies and parole boards responded to this survey, which sought examine current trends in victim services which they sponsored,...
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Non-judicial Means of Victim Restitution
by Silva Sanchez, J M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) From Criminal and Civil Liability of Professionals: Present Situation and Future Prospects Regarding the Concepts of Negligence and Risk: 22nd Colloquy on European Law, 1992, Tenerife, Spain. Pp. 241-267, abstract...
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Can We Talk? Mediation in Juvenile Criminal Cases
by Chown, P L
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Law Enforcement Bulletin. 64(11): 21-25. Writing in the mid 1990s, Peggy Chown and John Parham survey developments in juvenile justice relating to victim offender mediation. Not more than two decades before this article, the use of mediation in juvenile justice would have been...
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Position of the Victim in Criminal Justice: A Restrained Central and Eastern European Perspective on the Victim-Offender Mediation
by Krapac, D
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. 3(3): 230-240. After reviewing the history of orientation toward victims in western European countries’ criminal justice systems, this paper discusses the legal position of the victim in criminal justice in the...
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Comparison of Mediated and Non-mediated Juvenile Offender Cases in California.
by Schichor, D
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Juvenile and Family Court Journal. 49(2): 27-39. Data from 123 cases involving juveniles referred to the Orange County (Calif.) Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) from four police agencies between April and December 1996 were used to compare those who participated in...
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Crime Victims Meet Juvenile Offenders: Contributing Factors to Victim Satisfaction With Mediated Dialogue .
by Umbreit, Mark S
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Juvenile and Family Court Journal. 49(3): 17-25. Juvenile offender mediation was studied with respect to the relative and combined influences of individual victim characteristics, victimization status, satisfaction with the media, issues in the process of mediation, fairness in...
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Victim Assistance in Canada.
by Fattah, Ezzat A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In, Hiroshi Iitsuka and Rebecca Findlay-Debeck, eds., Resource Material Series No. 56. Tokyo: United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders. Pp. 48-59. After presenting a brief history of victim assistance in Canada, this paper...
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Reparation Orders for Young Offenders: Coerced Apologies?
by Williams, Brian
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Relational Justice Bulletin. January (9): 8. Downloaded 15 May 2003. In England the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 introduced reparation orders into the criminal justice system. However, notes Brian Williams, while victim-offender policies in other countries usually involved the...
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Nursery Crimes
by Hosking, George
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Relational Justice Bulletin. January (9): 6-7. Downloaded 15 May 2003. George Hosking writes from the perspective that the deepest roots of violence lie in the family and begin early in a person’s life. In this article then he specifically addresses how a breakdown...
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