Case Study–Healing Cradock After Apartheid
by Goniwe, Nyameka
June 4, 2015
Source: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. Downloaded 14 May 2003. This case study looks at how a community, deeply divided along racial lines, is trying to find reconciliation and healing. Nyameka Goniwe is the narrator. She initiated the Community Healing program in Cradock because of...
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Revisiting Reconciliation: The People’s View.
by Lombard, K
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Research report of the Reconciliation Barometer Exploratory Survey, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. Rodebosch: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. Downloaded 14 May 2003. While some have welcomed it and others have rejected it, the idea of reconciliation has been...
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A Poetics of Reconciliation: The Aesthetic Mediation of Conflict
by Cohen, Cynthia E
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Dissertation submitted to the University of New Hampshire in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Reading and Writing Instruction. Downloaded 14 May 2003. This dissertation, a philosophical inquiry into the significance of the...
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Justice Administration Outside the Ordinary Courts of Law in mainland Tanzania: The Case of Ward Tribunals in Babati District.
by Lawi, Yusufu Q.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) African Studies Quarterly. 1(2). Downloaded 1 May 2003. Yusufu Lawi claims that, since colonial days, justice administration in what is now mainland Tanzania has always involved arbitration procedures as well as more formal, court-based litigation processes. Moreover, in 1969...
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Reconciliation and the Public/Private Distinction. The Role of Victims and Beneficiaries in South Africa’s TRC
by Nagy, Rosemary
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Paper prepared for delivery at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton San Francisco and Towers. August 30-September 2, 2001. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has been the largest, most public, and best funded...
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Family Group Conferencing Worldwide: Part Three in a Series.
by Mirsky, Laura
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Practices E-Forum. May 7. The third and final part in a series by Laura Mirsky on family group conferencing (FGC), this article extends her exploration of the use of FGC beyond the sphere of child welfare to include adult mental health, youth justice, and school...
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Prison-it’s hurting, but is it working?
by Pollard, Charles.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) RSA Transmission in Association with the Economist. Edited Transcript of the Event. This panel discussion, occurring 26 September 2002, involved an expert in crime reduction, an ex-offender, an expert in youth justice, and director general of the prison service. Together they...
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Victimology Today Recent Theoretical and Applied Developments
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. 60-70. Victimology has made enormous strides in the past 20 years. As the result...
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In the Hands of the Public?
by Crawford, Adam
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Relational Justice Bulletin. Issue 13: 6-8. Downloaded 14 May 2003. As noted at the beginning of this article, the United Kingdom has seen a radical transformation in relations between the public and the state with regard to criminal justice policy and practice in recent...
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They Didn’t Even Look at Me.
by Medlicott, Diana
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Relational Justice Bulletin. Issue 13: 4-5. Downloaded 14 May 2003. The prison population in general is at a high risk for attempted suicide. Histories of drug abuse, neglect, fractured relationships, sex abuse, and bullying are compounded with the isolation and fear inherent in...
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Not a Map, But a Compass.
by Lofty, Mel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Relational Justice Bulletin. Issue 13: 1-3. Downloaded 14 May 2003. Mel Lofty, head of Youth and Restorative Justice for the Thames Valley Police, makes a strong case for restorative justice, particularly for youthful offenders. He cites the large amounts of money spent annually...
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Community Policing, Manx-Style
by Jeavons, Robert
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Relational Justice Bulletin. December (12):8. Downloaded 14 May 2003 The Isle of Man is a small independent island of around 73,000 people in the middle of the Irish Sea. Robert Jeavons is Chair of the Isle of Man Police Consultative Forum. As Jeavons states, in response to...
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Punishment as Remedy
by Winter, Bruce
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Relational Justice Bulletin. December (12):6-7. Downloaded 14 May 2003 Bruce Winter is a scholar of early Christianity in the Greek and Roman worlds. In this article he reflects on a what a Christian vision of punishment looked like at the time of the early church, in contrast...
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The Real Kindergarten Cop
by Bowes, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Relational Justice Bulletin. December (12):4-5. Downloaded 14 May 2003 In 1990, Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in the movie “Kindergarten Cop” as a policeman working undercover as a substitute teacher in a school. David Bowes, a research officer with the Thames Valley...
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Out of Trouble
by Clewer, Tim
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Relational Justice Bulletin. December (12):3. Tim Clewer is project manager for CARE Remand Fostering in England. This organization conducts a remand scheme based on a relational approach. The aim is to make the experience of remand a constructive, rather than a destructive,...
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