Budget 2000: $550 Million New Funding for Law and Order
by New Zealand Ministry of Justice, Linda L
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Justice Matters. 9(June):1-3, 20. The combination of new initiatives and baseline adjustments for the justice sector totals $550 million across 4 years. Added funding will strengthen victim education, court services for victims, and education and assistance to juvenile victims...
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Prevention, Restoration and Reintegration: NACRO’s Strategy on Crime in England and Wales
by National Assoc for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders, Linda L
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) London: NACRO. The government’s white paper titled Protecting the Public proposes automatic minimum sentences that will greatly increase the prison population. These proposals are unnecessary, unjust, impractical, ineffective, and wasteful of scarce resources. The...
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Restorative Justice
by McAnallen Martin, Linda L
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Lay Panel Magazine . 44(September):8-21. Restorative justice is a philosophy that views crime as harming victims, offenders, and the community. When harm, in the form of crime, is done, it creates obligations to repair that harm, to look forward, rather than back, to determine...
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Restoring the Balance: Juvenile and Community Justice
by Bazemore, Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) In, Wilson R. Palacios, Paul F. Cromwell, and Roger G. Dunham, eds.. Crime and Justice in America: Present Realities and Future Prospects, Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice-Hall, Inc. P p. 324-337 From the perspective of restorative justice, the most significant...
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Master Case Planning System: Probation Officer Orientation
by Shink, Linda L
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) New Castle, PA : New Castle Youth Development Ctr. Manual includes a case example to demonstrate the processes and the use of the forms and guidelines. The MCPS aims to ensure accountability on the part of the juvenile offender and the staff to the victim, the community, the...
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Police and Early Intervention: Procedures and Alternatives
by Ford, Kathryn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Hobart, Australia: Tasmania Police Assoc The goals of restorative justice are restoration of the victim, restoration of the offender to a law-abiding life, and restoration of the damage to the community caused by the crime. These goals are best served when the needs of the...
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Virtuous Prison: Toward a Restorative Rehabilitation.
by Cullen, Francis T
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In, Henry N. Pontell and David Shichor, eds., Contemporary Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honor of Gilbert Geis. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall Publishing. Pp. 265-286. The fundamental goal of the “virtuous prison” is to foster...
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Punitive Nature of the Conditional Sentence
by Healy, Patrick
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In, Canada Department of Justice, The Changing Face of Conditional Sentencing. Ottawa ON: Canada Department of Justice. Pp. 1-7. The Canada Supreme Court situated the conditional sentence of imprisonment between a term of actual incarceration in a jail and a suspended sentence...
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Conditional Sentences, Restorative Justice, Net-Widening and Aboriginal Offenders
by Roach, Kent
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In, Canada Department of Justice, The Changing Face of Conditional Sentencing. Ottawa ON: Canada Department of Justice. Pp. 25-37. With conditional sentencing, the Canada Supreme Court has encouraged the use of punitive conditions such as house arrest and curfews and onerous...
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Unified Family Court: Preventive, Therapeutic and Restorative Justice for America’s Families
by Tow, Michael A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Juvenile and Family Justice Today . 10(4): 14-17. Although preventative medicine has been widely studied, preventative justice has just recently emerged as a prominent research area. Preventative justice encompasses therapeutic and restorative justice. Judge Michael A. Town...
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Restorative Justice: Report of the Secretary-General
by United Nations Economic and Social Council Secretary-General Austria
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Vienna, Austria: United Nations Economic and Social Council, Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. Recently, restorative justice has received considerable attention by both practitioners and policy makers. It is viewed as an alternative approach to more common...
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Three Years After Sweeping Reform, What’s Different in the Juvenile Justice System?
by Dighton, Daniel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Compiler. 21(1): 1-5. Cook County is the only county in Illinois that reports that juvenile court petitions and adjudications have fallen dramatically since the mid-1990’s, as a result of balanced and restorative justice initiatives. It attributes the changes to...
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Restorative Justice: A Canadian Approach
by Hill, Gary
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Corrections Compendium. 27(8): 6-7. For the purposes of this article, “restorative justice” is defined as “an approach to justice that focuses on repairing the harm caused by crime while holding the offender responsible for his or her actions by providing an...
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Repairing Communities Through Restorative Justice
by Perry, John G
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Lanham, MD : American Correctional Association. Restorative justice goes beyond traditional law enforcement and corrections, attempting to repair community-wide injuries that result from crimes being committed. This book discusses various restorative justice alternatives in...
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Clinical Intervention, Supportive Counselling and Therapeutic Methods: A Clarification and Direction for Restorative Treatment
by Devilly, Grant J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) International Review of Victimology. 9(1): 1-14. Addressing therapy provisions for victims of crimes, this article focuses on restorative treatment approaches to criminal victimization. Following a discussion of the importance of the psychological debriefing of crime victims...
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