Lessons Learned
by Toews, Barb
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Conciliation Quarterly, Spring 2000: 8-10. The author is Community Conferencing Coordinator for the Community Conferencing Pilot Program at Eastern Mennonite University, and discusses five lessons that the student body and especially the Student Life administration in the first...
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Holistic Discipline
by Claassen, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Conciliation Quarterly, Spring 2000: 2-3. Reprinted from Victim Offender Reconciliation Program Newsletter, January 1999. The author describes the application of Discipline That Restores (DTR) principles that his wife, Roxanne Claassen, has made in the classroom at Raisin City...
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From Principles to Practice
by Claassen, Roxanne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Conciliation Quarterly, Spring 2000: 4-5 Roxanne Claassen, an eighth grade teacher at Raisin City Elementary School, introduces the “Principles of Discipline That Restores,” written by her husband Ron, who is co-director of the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict...
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Restorative Justice: Information on Court-Referred Restorative Justice
by Department of Courts. New Zealand, Matt
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Department of Courts, New Zealand. Downloaded 10 June 2004. This booklet introduces the court-referred restorative justice programme begun by New Zealand’s Department of Courts. It explains the idea of restorative justice and the background, aims and evaluation of the...
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References to Restorative Justice in the Sentencing Act
by Anonymous, Matt
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Te Ara Whakatika: Newsletter of the court-referred restorative justice project. June 2002. Special Issue. Downloaded 10 June 2004. Lists the sections of New Zealand’s Sentencing Act 2002 that refer to restorative justice. They largely involve principles of sentencing and...
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Victims Rights Bill Before Parliament
by Anonymous
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Te Ara Whakatika: Newsletter of the court-referred restorative justice project. June 2002. Special Issue. Downloaded 10 June 2004. Outlines new rights included in a Victims Rights Bill before the New Zealand Parliament, which is intended to broaden and ensure delivery of those...
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Greater Legitimacy For Restorative Justice
by Anonymous
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Te Ara Whakatika: Newsletter of the court-referred restorative justice project. June 2002. Special Issue. Downloaded 10 June 2004. Justice Deputy Secretary Warren Young is one of the architects of the new Sentencing and Parole Acts in New Zealand. The legislation provides for...
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‘World First’ For Restorative Justice
by Robson, Matt
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Te Ara Whakatika: Newsletter of the court-referred restorative justice project. June 2002. Special Issue. Downloaded 10 June 2004. Matt Robson, New Zealand’s Minister for Courts, discusses new sentencing and parole legislation that incorporates restorative justice into...
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Emotions High
by Anonymous
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Te Ara Whakatika: Newsletter of the court-referred restorative justice project. March/April 2002. Issue 8. Downloaded 10 June 2004. New Zealand’s court-referred restorative justice pilot project held its first conference in a prison in March 2002 at Waikeria. Two...
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Victims ‘Central to the Process’
by Anonymous
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Te Ara Whakatika: Newsletter of the court-referred restorative justice project. March/April 2002. Issue 8. Downloaded 10 June 2004. This article introduces the New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups, which work with police and government to provide practical and emotional...
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Referrals Stream In
by Anonymous
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Te Ara Whakatika: Newsletter of the court-referred restorative justice project. March/April 2002. Issue 8. Downloaded 10 June 2004. This brief report states increasing confidence in New Zealand’s court-referred restorative justice pilot project, with referrals now...
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‘Resounding Success’
by Anonymous
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Te Ara Whakatika: Newsletter of the court-referred restorative justice project. March/April 2002. Issue 8. Downloaded 10 June 2004. This extract from Restore (Restorative Justice Exchange newsletter, April 2002) reports on the national restorative justice hui–Te Ara...
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‘Significant Step Forward’
by Robson, Matt
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Te Ara Whakatika: Newsletter of the court-referred restorative justice project. March/April 2002. Issue 8. Downloaded 10 June 2004. New Zealand’s Minister for Courts, Matt Robson, shares his encouragement from attending the restorative justice hui in West Auckland in...
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Averting a Second Tragedy
by Anonymous
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Te Ara Whakatika: Newsletter of the court-referred restorative justice project. March/April 2002. Issue 8. Downloaded 10 June 2004. The Wanganui Restorative Justice Trust was set up by Judge Becroft and prison, business and community personnel to set up a restorative justice...
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‘Profound Impact on Inmates’
by Anonymous, David R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Te Ara Whakatika: Newsletter of the court-referred restorative justice project. January/February 2002. Issue 7. Downloaded 10 June 2004. This article introduces the Sycamore Tree community-based restorative justice programme of Prison Fellowship of New Zealand, which will be...
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