The Seeds of a Community Healing Process
by Hollow Water First Nations
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Justice as Healing (Winter). This is an excerpt from a report by the Hollow Water First Nations Community Holistic Circle Healing. It describes their community practices and procedures, based on traditional teachings and practices, for addressing crime in their midst. Using a...
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If We Were Serious about Public Safety, What Would It Look Like?
by Gorczyk, John F
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper presented at the Building Strong Partnerships for Restorative Practices conference, Burlington, Vermont, 5-7 August 1999. Downloaded 8 June 2004. Gorczyk argues that restorative justice offers better principles and practices to address public safety. Critical of our...
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CCNP Community Conferencing
by Gerard, Gena
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Central City Neighborhoods Partnership. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Paper presented at the First North American Conference on Conferencing. Minneapolis, 6-8 August 1998. This paper reports on a Community Conferencing pilot program in an urban setting in the United States. The...
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The Family Group Conference-10 Years On
by Doolan, Mike
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper presented at the Building Strong Partnerships for Restorative Practices conference, Burlington, Vermont, 5-7 August 1999. Doolan, with New Zealand’s Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Agency, outlines the implementation of the Family Group Conference...
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Restorative Justice in Australia and New Zealand
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Criminal Justice Matters 39 (Spring) Australia and New Zealand are leaders in experimenting with the principles of restorative justice. In the late 1980s, family group conferencing was legislatively established in New Zealand as a major component in the handling of youth justice...
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Restorative Justice and School Discipline: Mutually Exclusive?
by Thorsborne, Margaret
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Education Queensland and Transformative Justice Australia. The authors outline the results of two separate studies involving the introduction of community conferencing into schools to deal with incidents of serious harm. Experiences during the two years in which these studies...
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Background Paper on New Zealand Youth Justice Process
by Brown, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Paper presented at International Bar Association Judges’ Forum, Section on General Practice. Edinburgh, 10-13 June 1995. The author, a youth court judge in New Zealand, examines the New Zealand Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989. The legislation...
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Implementation of Alternative Structures for Dispute Resolution
by Behrendt, Larissa
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Justice as Healing 3 (3). Behrendt proposes a model for dispute resolution within an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community (Australia). The purpose is to develop an alternative dispute resolution process based on the traditional dispute resolution processes and the...
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The Theory and Practice of Sentencing: Are They on the Same Wavelength?
by Bayda, E. D
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Justice as Healing 2 (3). Posing a hypothetical case of a trial judge considering a sentence for an Aboriginal person convicted of theft, E. D. Bayda, Chief Justice of Saskatchewan, discusses the theory and purposes of sentencing, as stated in the Criminal Code of Canada. Bayda...
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Native Youth and Alternative Justice in Lethbridge
by Barsh, Russell Lawrence
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Justice as Healing 1 (3) In this article the author describes a field study to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a Youth Justice Committee in Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada). A Youth Justice Committee is a “community disposition panelâ€? – an...
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The Justice System and Aboriginal People
by Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission, Charles
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Volume 1 of the Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba In response to two crimes against Aboriginal people, an inquiry was commissioned to investigate both the crimes and the broader and deeper issues relating to perspectives and implementation of justice in...
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Empowerment and Retribution in Criminal and Restorative Justice
by Barton, Charles
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Victim Offender Mediation Association. 15/October 2002.http://www.voma.org/docs/barton_emp&re.pdf Contrary to the implied suggestion in many restorative justice critiques of the status quo, the chief strength of restorative justice interventions does not lie in their...
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Restorative Justice as Reaction to Crime: Development and Conceptualization
by Nesser, JJ
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Crime Research in South Africa: Academic Quarterly publishe by the Department of Criminology. University of South Africa. 10/14/02. J. J. Neser, a professor of criminology in the University of South Africa, notes that restorative justice is in a sense a new paradigm, but in many...
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Development of Belgian Prisons into a Restorative Perspective
by Biermans, Nadia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Paper presented at “Positioning Restorative Justice-Fifth International Conference Organized by the International network for Research on Restorative Justice for Juveniles, Leuven 16-19 September 2001. Biermans and d’Hoop explore in this paper the development of a...
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Still Tough on Crime? Prospects for Restorative Juvenile Justice in the United States.
by Beale, Sara Sun
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Utah Law Review, forthcoming 2003. Duke University Law School. 14 October 2002. Sara Sun Beale describes in this paper the movement toward greater punitiveness in the criminal justice system in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. She contrasts this development with the...
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