Youth Justice Conferencing and Re-Offending in Queensland
by Hayes, Hennessey
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Final report submitted to Queensland Department of Families, February 2003. Community conferencing was introduced in Queensland with proclamation of the amended Juvenile Justice Act 1992. A community conference is a meeting where young offenders, their victims and supporters...
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Victim-Offender Mediation: The Road to Repairing Hate Crime Injustice.
by Shenk, Alyssa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. 17: 185. Shenk begins this essay with the observation that historically the American criminal justice system – retributive in character, and focused on crime as a violation of law – has ignored the needs of the victim of...
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Enhancing Autonomy for Battered Women: Lessons from Navajo Peacemaking
by Coker, Donna
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) UCLA Law Review. 47: 1. Donna Coker characterizes Navajo peacemaking as a type of informal adjudication. It is part of the effort to revitalize Navajo common law and traditional adjudicatory processes. A peacemaking process involves the disputing parties, members of the extended...
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The Justice of Amnesty? Towards a Threory of Retributivism in Recovering States
by Markel, Dan
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) University of Toronto Law Journal. 49: 389. In the wake of the final report of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Dan Markel reviews the South African experience to determine what can be learned about criminal justice in recovering states. He focuses on...
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More Than Zero: The Cost of Zero Tolerance and the Case for Restorative Justice in Schools.
by Haft, William
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Denver University Law Review. 77: 795. There is a trend in public education toward “zero tolerance” policies. Zero tolerance policies are designed to suspend or expel from public schools students who commit a single occurrence of proscribed conduct. The trend is...
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Reconciliation, Justice, and Domestic Violence: Commentary on Dr. Lawrence W. Sherman.
by Wilson, Melvin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law. 8: 291. In this article, the authors respond to Lawrence W. Sherman’s proposal in Policing Domestic Violence: Experiments and Dilemmas (1992) to employ restorative justice programs for cases of domestic violence. They commend...
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Punishment as Atonement
by Garvey, Stephen P.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) UCLA Law Review. 46: 1801. Stephen Garvey begins this essay by asking the reader to imagine how an ideal community – whether a group of friends, a church, a synagogue, a family, or other – deals with members of the community who commit a wrong. His aim is to...
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Forgiveness in the Criminal Justice System: If it belongs, then why is it so hard to find?
by Lerman, David.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Fordham Urban Law Journal. 27: 1663. In asking the question of the place and challenge of forgiveness in the criminal justice system, David Lerman advocates for its role in that system. He does this from his perspective as a prosecutor. His treatment of the issues looks at the...
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Healing the Wounds of Juvenile Property Crime in New Zealand and the United States
by Cunha, Jennifer Michelle
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Emory International Law Review. 13: 283. Beginning with an anecdote of a family group conference in the wake of a serious crime by juveniles against a family, Jennifer Cunha examines New Zealand’s restorative justice model and juvenile justice in the United States. She...
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Restorative Justice and the Prosecutor
by Gay, Frederick
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Fordham Urban Law Review. 27:1651. Frederick Gay begins this article with the remark that it is the ‘us versus them’ (good versus evil) mentality that pervades the traditional prosecutor’s office, or at least the desires of young lawyers in deciding to join the...
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Parental Responsibility for Juvenile Crime
by Difonzo, James Herbie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Oregon Law Review. 80: 1. In the effort to toughen responses to juvenile crime, policymakers and legislators in the United States have moved toward parental responsibility laws – laws whereby parents can be held criminally and civilly responsible for offenses committed by...
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The Majority Opinion as the Social Construction of Reality: The Supreme Court and Prison Rules
by Robertson, James E
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Oklahoma Law Review. 53: 161. James Robertson begins this essay with observations on the nature of United States Supreme Court rulings. According to the “rule of lawâ€? tradition, the Supreme Court discovers the meaning of the Constitution and its Amendments...
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Incorporating the Conferencing Model Into the United States Juvenil Justice System.
by Paye, Amanda L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal. 8:161. Popular perceptions of increasingly violent juvenile crime have helped drive juvenile justice in the United States from its original rehabilitative focus toward a “get toughâ€? retributive system. Amanda Paye states...
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Victim-Offender Mediation: The Road to Repairing Hate Crime Injustice
by Shenk, Alyssa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. 17:185. Abstract...
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Domestic Violence and Restorative Justice: Answering Key Questions
by Sherman, Lawrence W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. 8: 263. In recent decades, as public awareness has risen and reporting of incidents has increased, domestic violence has grown into a major issue in law and social policy. According to Sherman, it is far from clear that increased...
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