Between Retribution and Restoration: Justice and the TRC
by Allen, Jonathan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) South African Journal of Philosophy. 20(1): 22. In this essay, with particular reference to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Jonathan Allen considers how, in a morally defensible way, a society can confront past trauma and injustice in order to break...
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Apathy and Accountability: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
by Rose, Jacqueline
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Raritan. 21(4):175-195. As part of its mandate, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) could grant amnesty for acts of violence and injustice if the perpetrators disclosed the truth of their deeds. During the tenure of the TRC, a South African Indian woman...
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Money and Justice: Toward a Social Analysis of Reparations
by Sznaider, Natan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Human Rights Review.(January-March):104-110. In this essay, Natan Sznaider reviews three books and a journal article on the German-Jewish example of reparations following the Holocaust: The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices (Elazar Barkan); When...
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Conflict Resolution at School: Building Compassionate Communities
by Carter, Candice C
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Social Alternatives. 21(1): 49-55. Candice Carter asserts that the foundation of peace education is learning to accept and understand differences, thereby fostering stronger communities. Hence, assessing the success of conflict resolution must account for the degree to which...
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Criminal Incarceration Dividing the Ties that Bind: Black Men and Their Families
by Browning, Sandra Lee
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Journal of African American Men. 6(1):87-102. Of the many deprivations experienced by people who are incarcerated, the authors of this essay focus on the loss of liberty. Deprivation of liberty is a part of the restrictions enforced on inmates within the prison. Yet more...
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Victim-Offender Mediation Catching On
by Reske, Henry J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) ABA Journal. February. Modern types of victim-offender mediation (VOM) programs have been around for more than twenty years, and are garnering greater attention and use in the United States. Not long before the writing of this article, the House of Delegates of the American Bar...
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Hazards Along the Way
by Bazemore, Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Corrections Today. 59(7): 84. Enthusiasm for restorative justice must be tempered with awareness of the challenges and risks involved in the effort to implement the vision of restorative justice. Gordon Bazemore sounds this note of caution out of the conviction that legislation...
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Forgiveness and Justice in a Secular Polity
by Breyfogle, Todd
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Reviews in Religion and Theology. 6(2): 133. Writing in the late 1990s, Todd Breyfogle observes that the language of repentance, forgiveness, and atonement has achieved remarkable and surprising currency in American political discourse. What does this language mean in a secular...
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Goodbye to Hammurabi: Analyzing the Atavistic Appeal of Restorative Justice
by Delgado, Richard
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Stanford law Review. 52(4): 751. The relationships among race, crime, and community are complex, and they take on many forms. While every crime involves the violation of community, the community dimension of crime takes on special significance under some conditions. Such...
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Restorative Justice, Victims’ Rights and the Future
by Akester, Kate
June 4, 2015
Source: Restorative Justice Consortium, www.restorativejustice.org.uk Noting that restorative justice has become established in juvenile justice in England following the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, Kate Akester also points out that ambiguity and variability with respect to...
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Restorative Juvenile Justice in the States: A National Assessment of Policy Development and Implementation
by Bazemore, Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Washington, DC: US Dept of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Balanced and restorative justice, a new framework for juvenile justice reform, seeks to engage citizens and community groups both as clients and resources in a more effective response to...
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Implementing Restorative Justice by “Groping Along”: A Case Study in Program Evolutionary Implementation
by Lemley, Ellen C
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) The Justice System Journal. 23(2):157-190. Gaining increasing support from criminal justice practitioners and the attention of researchers is the new policy model known as restorative justice. Restorative justice views crime as an offense against people and relationships...
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The role of the victim in the criminal process: A literature review – 1989 to 1999.
by Young, Alan N
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Victims of Crime Research Series. Ottawa: Department of Justice Canada, Policy Centre for Victims Issues, Research and Statistics Division. Noting the persistence of public discontent with institutionalized criminal justice, Alan Young asserts that to understand this discontent...
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Policing on American Indian reservations
by Wakeling, Stewart
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) A report to the National Institute of Justice. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice. There are two basic aims in this report on policing on American Indian reservations. The first is to look at policing in Indian...
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The impact of victim-offender mediation: Two decades of research
by Coates, Robert B
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Federal Probation: A Journal of Correctional Philosophy and Practice (December): 29-35. Umbreit, Coates, and Vos note that victim-offender mediation – the oldest and most widely used expression of restorative justice, in their judgment – has at times attracted more...
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