Family Group Conferencing Worldwide: Part Two in a Series.
by Mirsky, Laura
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Practices E-Forum. April 3. This article is second in a series of three by Laura Mirsky about family group conferencing (FGC), a restorative process that empowers families to make decisions concerning the care and support of their children. In her first article she...
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Community Conferencing: An Interview with Gena Gerard
by Mirsky, Laura
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Practices E-Forum. March 17. This online article consists of an interview conducted by Laura Mirsky with Gina Gerard. The interview took place in 2002 at the International Institute for Restorative Practices’s Third International Conference on Conferencing,...
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The Palau Restorative Justice Project
by Rosenthal, Michael J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Paper presented at the International Association of Youth and Family Judges and magistrates XVI World Congress. This paper describes the history and implementation of conferencing in the Palau justice system. It provides a brief discussion of indigenous justice practices and how...
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Conferencing in the Youth Criminal Justice Act of Canada: Policy Developments in British Columbia
by Hillian, Douglas
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 46(3): 343-366. Drawing on principles and practices from the diversion and restorative justice movements in juvenile justice, conferencing is the process that brings selected people together to give advice on decisions...
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Seeking Solutions: Options for Change to the New Zealand Court System.
by Law Commission, New Zealand
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Preliminary Paper 52. Wellington, NZ: Law Commission of New Zealand. Established by statute in 1985, the Law Commission is an independent, publicly funded, central advisory body. Its purpose is to promote the systematic review, reform, and development of the law of New Zealand....
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Promoting Justice Through Interdisciplinary Teaching, Practice, and Scholarship Mental Health Assessment of Minors in the Juvenile Justice System
by Heaston, Curtis
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Washington University of Law and Policy. 11: 141. In the late 1800s legal professionals with social workers and others to seek social reform addressing juvenile delinquency and other issues. Thus began the juvenile justice system. According to the authors of this paper, today...
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Punishment, Reconciliation, and Democratic Deliberation.
by Crocker, David A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Buffalo Criminal Law Review. 5(2): 509-549. In many countries around the world, societies and international institutions are trying to decide how they should reckon with past atrocities committed by their own people within their own borders. It is common to believe that trials...
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Community Prosecutors
by Alfieri, Anthony V
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) California Law Review. 90: 1465. In this essay, Anthony Alfieri addresses the ethic of community in criminal prosecution. In the sphere of criminal prosecution, the ethic of community emphasizes the values of citizen participation, institutional decentralization, and local...
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If Portia were a Mediator: An Inquiry into Justice In Mediation
by Hyman, Jonathan M.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Clinical Law Review. 9: 157. The authors of this paper characterize mediation as being oriented toward justice, not as a flight from justice, as some might construe it. However, they assert, justice in mediation is different from justice in adjudication. Unlike a judge, jury, or...
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Seeking Sanctuary: Interviews with Family Members of Capital Defenders.
by Beck, Elizabeth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Cornell Law Review. 88: 382. The authors of this essay observe at the outset that a capital charge against a capital defendant profoundly affects the individual family members of the defendant. While many issues related to capital punishment have been studied extensively, little...
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Building Partnerships to Protect Children: A Blended Model of Family Group Conferencing
by Adams, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Family Court Review. 40: 503. According to statistics at the end of 2001, hundreds of thousands of children lived in foster care because of abuse or neglect from their birth families. Only a few years earlier, millions of children were reported to Child Protective Services...
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Disputing Together: Conflict Resolution and the Search for Community
by Ackerman, Robert M.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. 18: 27. Frequent themes in communitarian discourse in recent years point to the decline in participation by Americans in community activities and the fragmentation of American society. In this vein, it is often put forth that Americans...
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Broken Promises: A Response to Stenning and Roberts’ “Empty Promises”.
by Roach, Kent
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Saskatchewan Law Review. 65: 1. In 2001 the Saskatchewan Law Review published an article by Philip Stenning and Julian Roberts entitled ‘Empty promises: Parliament, the Supreme Court, and the sentencing of Aboriginal offenders.’ Stenning and Roberts argued that the...
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Quantitative and Qualitative Tendencies as a Key to the Appropriate Facilitation of Dispute Resolution
by Gierulski, Witek
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Saskatchewan law Review. 65: 181. Witek Gierulski begins this paper with a particular example from a mediation. Through the action of another person, a man had lost twelve million dollars. The case was being dealt with through mediation. The mediator, acknowledging the loss,...
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In Vindication of Justiciable Victims’ Rights to Truth and Justice for State Sponsored Crimes
by Aldana-Pindell, Raquel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. 35: 1399. Following World War II, in the aftermath of the Nazi atrocities, international human rights law took on much greater significance. The principles behind the Nuremberg trials were eventually construed as requiring states to...
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