Rambling through the fields of justice in search of well-being for all.
by Sullivan, Dennis
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Contemporary Justice Review. 15(2):139-161. The article looks at basic questions of what constitutes a justice that takes into account the needs of all people. Thus an attempt is made to outline some of the basic tenets of a needs-based justice. (author’s...
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Parent-to-Parent Guide: Restorative justice in Chicago Public Schools.
by Power-PAC Elementary Justice Committee, Kenneth F.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Chicago: COFI: Community Organizing and Family Issues. Parents have to be involved, and take the initiative in local schools. But we also need to know our rights, and understand the system! Part of this guide is sharing what we believe is important to know when your son or...
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Reverberations of the victim’s “voice”: Victim impact statements and the cultural project of punishment.
by Sheley, Erin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Indiana Law Journal. 87(3):1247-1286. This article will proceed in four parts. Part I will summarize the legal history of victim impact statements and the existing debate over their appropriateness in the sentencing context. I will argue that much of the literature focuses on a...
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Restorative lawyer discipline in Australia.
by Haller, Linda
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Nevada Law Journal. 12:316-332. This Article first provides a brief history and overview of lawyer4 discipline in Australia. Brown and Wolf believe enormous changes would be needed to introduce a consumer protection model of lawyer regulation in the United States.5 As will be...
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“Practical considerations in mediation training: should mediators be trained to adapt to the circumstances of each case?”
by Dunham, Kenneth F.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Appalachian Journal of Law. 11:185-207. In the early years of mediation’s popularity, mediation theorists opined that mediators should be trained to be purely facilitative. Most mediation trainers have used the purely facilitative approach in training mediators. However,...
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Paradox lost: The potential of restorative attorney discipline — with a cautionary call for making distinctions.
by Stempel, Jeffrey
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Nevada Law Journal. 12:350–363. Seen through my cynic’s lens, the restorative attorney discipline advocated by Brown and Wolf11 more than meets the standard for likely effectiveness— provided that those presiding over it are prepared to make distinctions...
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Paradox and civic republican vision.
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Nevada Law Journal. 12:333-340. Jennifer Brown and Linda Wolf do a wonderfully incisive job of drawing out the promise of restorative attorney discipline.1 In this Comment, I focus more on the paradoxes described in their essay. I redefine their three main paradoxes inherent in...
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Forging links and renewing ties: Applying the principles of restorative and procedural justice to better respond to criminal offenders with a mental disorder.
by Hafemeister, Thomas L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Buffalo Law Review. 60(1):147-223. For almost as long as there has been a criminal justice system, society has struggled with how to respond to offenders with a mental disorder whose criminal behavior has been shaped and driven by their mental disorder. Virtually everyone who...
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Emotions, crime, and justice. By Susanne Karstedt, Ian Loader and Heather Strang, eds (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011, 380pp).
by Seal, Lizzie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) British Journal of Criminology. 52(3):671-673. Emotions, as any novel reader, theatre-goer or film and television viewer knows, are central to the ways in which humans experience crime and punishment. However, as *672 Karstedt notes in her introduction to this collection,...
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Apologies as intellectual property remedies: Lessons from China.
by Nguyen, Xuan-Thao
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Connecticut Law Review. 44(3): 883-923. It is a frequent refrain that “the world is shrinking.†In this same vein, the global influence of China is clearly rising. Chinese businesses are becoming more prominent in the global market, and as such, the influence and...
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Anti-social behaviour, community engagement and the judicial role in England and Wales.
by Donoghue, Jane C.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) British Journal of Criminology. 52(3):591-610. A problem-solving approach to anti-social behaviour (ASB) cases has recently been embedded into magistrates’ courts in England and Wales. This approach incorporates core components of the AntiSocial Behaviour Response Court...
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Victim awareness: A model of problem-solving justice.
by Davis, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Voice of the Victim: A Perspectives Spotlight Issue. Perspectives: The journal of the American Probation and Parole Association. Pgs: 40-43. In 1996, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) implemented a program to help offenders understand the negative...
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Planning for the memorialisation of the Indian Residential School System: A case study of the Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario.
by Hovey, Christina Cecelia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Thesis. Master of Urban and Regional Planning. Queen’s University. Kingston, Ontario, Canada. This research examines the process of memorialisation around the Indian Residential School System in Canada to draw connections between the fields of transitional justice and...
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Keeping kids in schools: Restorative justice, punitive discipline, and the school to prison pipeline.
by González, Thalia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Journal of Law and Education. 41(2):281-235. This Article explores the implementation, development, and impact of a school-based restorative justice program across the United States with a specific case study of North High School in Denver, Colorado. Part II details the impact...
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Restoring justice: Community organizing to transform school discipline policies.
by González, Thalia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) U.C. Davis Journal of Juvenile Law and Policy. 15(1):1-36. As the number and intensity of organizing efforts has grown, communities have begun to transform the nature of school discipline in increasingly visible ways. These campaigns are not traditional education reform efforts,...
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