Facing up to Responsibilities
by Anonymous
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. A police officer relates his positive experience and his concerns with restorative justice conferencing after his home was burgled. The...
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Update on Pilots
by Anonymous
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. Briefly updates on the variety of venues, participants, and outcomes in conferencing cases in New Zealand’s court-referred restorative...
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Victims and Offenders Identify Innovative Plans
by Anonymous
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. Lists a range of outcomes that have resulted from victims and offenders participating in New Zealand’s court-referred restorative...
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Rigorous Research
by Robson, Matt
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. New Zealand Minister for Courts Matt Robson is pleased with the research that will show the positive effects of conferences held so far in the...
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Multi-Pronged Research
by Anonymous
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. Describes the three-year court-referred restorative justice research project being carried out for New Zealand’s Department of Courts...
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Vermont Reparative Probation: Year 2000 Outcome Evaluation. Final Report.
by Karp, David R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Saratoga Springs, NY : Skidmore College, Department of Sociology. 14 February 2003. The Vermont Department of Corrections Reparative Probation Program began in 1995. Since then hundreds of community board programs have been launched across the country. This study represents the...
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Whatever Happened to the Right for Treatment?: The Modern Quest for a Historical Promise
by Mlyniec, Wallace J
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Temple Law Review. 68:1791. Since the creation of the first juvenile court in 1899, state training schools have been the primary place of confinement for children removed from their homes. In theory such places were supposed to be home-like and rehabilitative in their facilities...
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Tribal Jurisprudence and Cultural Meanings of the Family
by Atwood, Barbara Ann
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Nebraska Law Review. 79:577. Barbara Ann Atwood begins this paper with the perspective that law is a dynamic agent of culture rather than a static structure independent of culture. Law both reflects and shapes culture. In this context, she observes that cultural renewal and...
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Reclaiming Jurisprudential Sovereignty: A Tribal Judiciary Analysis.
by Clarkson, Gavin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Kansas Law Review. 50:473. Gavin Clarkson contends that, for political and economic reasons, American Indian tribes should reclaim jurisprudential sovereignty by establishing or reestablishing vibrant judiciaries with an indigenous sense of jurisprudence. They can do so by...
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A Proposal for Community Based Racial Reconciliaiton in the United States through Personal Stories.
by Wacks, Jamie L
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law. 7:195. Though race relations have improved in the last century in the United States, attitudes about race remain one of the most daunting challenges for the country. Jamie Wacks asserts that the federal government should create a...
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Juvenile Corrections in Indiana
by Hinkle, William G.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 567: 198. Cohn and Hinkle contend that the trend toward tougher and tougher penalties in corrections is not the solution to juvenile violence. The criminal justice system is not only the most costly place to deal...
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The Rhetoric of Juvenile Justice Reform
by Hemmens, Craig
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Quinnipiac Law Review. 18:661. Whether statistics bear this out or not, there is a perception in the United States that juvenile crime is out of control. The response is often a call to “get toughâ€? on juvenile offenders. The trend in many jurisdictions is to...
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Violent Youth and Public Policy: A Case Study of Juvenile Justice Law Reform
by Feld, Barry C
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) 79 Minnesota Law Review. 965. In recent decades public perception of a significant increase in youth crime and violence fueled great concern about public safety and the effectiveness of the juvenile justice system. A “get toughâ€? response judicially,...
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 The Public is Willing
by Linday, Margot
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) 29 Fordham Urban Law Journal. 1267. At the outset of their paper, Lindsay and Shilton point out that public outreach and education are critical for the courts. Court outreach and public trust in the courts are vitally linked. In recognition of this link, and in view of that fact...
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Restorative Justice: Friend or Foe?
by Quinn, T. J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Washington, DC: US Dept of Justice National Institute of Justice. This paper provides an overview of the characteristics and benefits of the implementation of “Restorative Justice” in the processing of criminal cases. Restorative justice addresses both the process...
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