Holding the State Accountable in Restorative Justice Meetings
by Roche, Declan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Restorative Justice for Juveniles, Institute of Criminology, University of Tubingen, Germany, October, 2000. Abstract...
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Victims in the Village: Aspects of Restorative Justice in Papua New Guinea
by Banks, Cyndi
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) International Review of Victimology. 6(4): 377- 405. In the villages of Vanimo West Coast, Papua New Guinea, restorative justice processes continue to adhere to traditional practices and beliefs. The article examines how modernization has influenced traditional restorative...
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Current Mediation Practices in the Netherlands
by Kleiboer, M. A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Mediation. 26(9): 9- 24 In the last 5 years, more than 1,600 mediators have requested to be registered by the Netherlands Mediation Institute. Their number is increasing rapidly; in the second half of 2000, each and every month 100 newcomers were welcomed. Most of them have a...
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Restorative Justice for Victims of Crime: A Victim-Oriented Approach to Restorative Justice
by Wemmers, Jo-Anne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) International Review of Victimology. 9(1): 43- 59. Addressing the way in which restorative justice programs should be offered to victims, this paper discusses victims’ needs. After arguing that the restorative justice movement has been gaining support in recent years, the...
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The Fall and Rise of Restorative Justice
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) sample chapter from Braithwaite, John. 2001. Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Downloaded 15 July 2004. This document consists of sample materials from John Braithwaite’s book Restorative justice and responsive...
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Family Group Conferences: User Empowerment or Family Self-Reliance?- a Development from Lupton
by Jackson, Shirley E
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) British Journal of Social Work. 29: 621-630. This article is a response to Lupton (1998). It is not a traditional critical response, but rather a complementary and extended exploration of the issues raised in the earlier paper. It draws on the authors’ respective...
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Forgiveness and Restorative Justice in Vermont
by Cohen, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Planet Vermont Quarterly. Online Journal. 8(4) Cohen begins this article with a commonsense definition of forgiveness as a response to wrongdoing, a response meant to resolve all or some of the tension and injury induced by the wrongdoing. Cohen then looks at forgiveness and...
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Personalizing Crime: Mediation Produces Restorative Justice for Victims and Offenders.
by Price, Marty D.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program Information and Resource Center. 26 October 2002 Marty price begins this article with a number of characterizations of the United States criminal justice system. As he puts it, the system is, among other things, retributive in nature,...
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The Minnesota Restorative Justice Initiative: A Model Experience
by Pranis, Kay
June 4, 2015
Source: Perspectives on Restorative Justice. Restorative Jutice On-line Notebook. As Kay Pranis remarks in this paper, she has worked for the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) promoting restorative justice throughout the state. Her responsibilities also included providing technical...
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Communities and the Justice System: Turning the Relationship Upside Down
by Pranis, Kay
June 4, 2015
Source: Perspectives on Restorative Justice. Restorative Jutice On-line Notebook. In this article Kay Pranis remarks that her work in restorative justice has led to extensive consideration of the nature of community, the effect of crime on the community fabric, the responsibility of the...
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Restorative Justice: An International Perspective
by McCarney, Willie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Journal of the Center for Families, Children, and the Courts.volume 3. Judicial Council of California This article outlines the phenomenal growth of restorative justice around the world. Concentrating on restorative justice as a response to offending behavior, the article...
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Creggan Community Restorative Justice: An Evaluation and Suggested Way Forward
by Smyth, Marie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Institute for Conflict Research in association with St. Columb’s Park House. This document represents the findings of a research project begun in February 2001 to evaluate the Creggan Community Restorative Justice project ((Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland). St....
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Victim Awareness as a Core Program for Young Offenders
by Putnins, Aldis L
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Youth Studies. 14(3):38 Describes a South Australian program based on increasing the awareness in young offenders of the experiences of victims. Ways of directly increasing the cognitive empathy of young offenders toward experiences of crime...
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Restorative vs. Retributive Justice as Vehicles for a Human Rights Culture
by Kiss, Elizabeth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Paper prepared for delivery at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 2001 Can justice be done without punishment? The idea of retributive justice denies this possibility, asserting that punishment is required...
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Survey Article: Justifying the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
by Dyzenhaus, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Journal of Political Philosophy. 8(4): 470-496. While South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was not the first official commission to investigate past trauma, it has attracted more interest and comment, including philosophical comment, than its...
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