Why Perpatrators Should Not Always be Prosecuted: Where the International Criminal Court and Truth Commission Meet
by Villa-Vicencio, Charles
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Emory Law Journal. 49: 205. The advent of the International Criminal Court marks a significant triumph over lawlessness with respect to war crimes and crimes against humanity. This is morally good, says Charles Villa-Vicencio, yet it is also legally unnerving because it could be...
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Apologetic Justice: Evaluating Apologies Tailored Toward Legal Solutions
by Latif, Elizabeth A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Boston University Law Review. 81: 289. Elizabeth Latif begins this examination of apologies in criminal justice processes with the observation that apologies have become a common feature of public discourse and the redress of past wrongdoing. While apologies have long had a...
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Institutionalizing Distrust, Enculturating Trust
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) In, Valerie Braithwaite and Margaret Levi, eds., Trust and Governance. New York: Russell Sate. Pp. 343-375. As Braithwaite remarks at the beginning of his essay, we have all experienced how distrust can sour interpersonal relations and work environments. Trust then is vital and...
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Zero Tolerance, Naming, and Shaming: Is there a Case for it with Crimes of the Powerful?
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 35(3): 269-288. Zero tolerance and public shaming are increasingly advocated for both crimes of the powerless and crimes of the powerful. In this essay, we argue against zero tolerance with respect to both kinds of crime....
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Managing Unacceptable Risk: Sex Offenders, Community Responses, and Social Policy in the United States and Canada
by Petrunik, Michael G
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 46(4):483-511. This article compares the community protection-risk management model for the control of sex offenders with the clinical and justice models that preceded it and with a restorative justice...
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Community Service: Its Use in Criminal Justice
by Harris, Robert J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 46(2): 427-444. Community service has been perceived as a desirable alternative to the use of short-term imprisonment as a response to increasing crime rates. Although heavily used in Western Europe and the...
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Response to Injury: Toward Ethical Construction of the Other
by Kamya, Hugo
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Journal of Systemic Therapies. 21(3):19-29. This article offers a compassionate exploration of the discourse of retaliation as the authors seek alternatives to cycles of violence. This article distinguishes monologic and dialogic discourse and articulates the relationship...
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Planning and Implementing a Criminal Justice Course with University Students and Youthful Offenders
by Vigorita, Michael S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Journal of Criminal Justice Education. 13(2): 404-432. During Fall 1999, the Law and Justice Studies Department at Rowan University, in collaboration with New Jersey’s Juvenile Justice Commission, brought together 12 students and 12 incarcerated youth for a semester long...
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Public Attitudes Toward Restorative Justice
by MRL Research Group, M. J
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Department of Justice. Qualitative research was commissioned by the New Zealand Department of Justice to explore public attitudes toward restorative justice, a philosophy that identifies people as victims and views interpersonal dimensions as central...
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Restorative Resolutions Project: An Alternative to Incarceration
by Richardson, G.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. 20(1 & 2):209-219. This article describes Canada’s Restorative Resolutions Project and the extent to which it has been active and successful as an alternative to incarceration. A restorative system of...
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Restoring Justice
by Lombardi, M. J
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) National Council of Churches. This video profiles the restorative justice model for addressing criminal offenses in contrast to the currently popular retributive justice model. The host introduces the video by contrasting the restorative justice model with the retributive...
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Expanding on What Works: A Research Conference.
by International Community Corrections Association, B.K.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) National Institute of Corrections, Texas Corrections Association, Canada Correctional Service, International Community Corrections Association. This conference was convened by the International Community Corrections Association and other cosponsors to develop a more complete...
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Sex Offender: New Insights, Treatment Innovations and Legal Developments
by Schwartz, B.K.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Volume II. Kingston, NJ.: Civic Research Institute Inc. These 24 papers present theoretical, legal, and empirical analyses of issues related to sex offenders and sex offender treatment, with emphasis on the advantages of replacing a retributive model of justice with a...
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Rethinking God, Justice, and Treatment of Offenders
by Zehr, Howard
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. 35(3/4): 259-285. This article argues for a peacemaking school of criminology taking the direction of restorative justice as opposed to the historical tradition of retribution forming a closer connection to the founding document of Christian...
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Building Conflict Resolution Infrastructure in the Central and South Pacific: Indigenous Populations and their Conflicts with Governments
by Barnes, Bruce E
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Conflict Resolution Quarterly. 19(3): 345-361. Three areas of the Central and South Pacific have a history of colonization of indigenous peoples by English-speaking nations. In each area, conflict between the indigenous populations and the governments and settler population has...
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