The Justice Tree: Multifaith Reflection on Criminal Justice
by Hadley, Michael L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) A Synopsis of “The Spiritual Roots Project,” an interdisciplinary research project of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria. Victoria, Canada Under the auspices of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society (University of...
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Experiments in Restorative Policing: A Progress Report on the Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE)
by Barnes, Geoffrey
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Australian Federal Police and Australian National University. This 1999 report describes progress made over the last 12 months in the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE). The aim of this study is to compare the effects of standard court processing with the effects of a...
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Experiments in Restorative Policing: A Progress Report on the Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE)
by Barnes, Geoffrey
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Australian Federal Police and Australian National University. This 1998 report describes the results of the first three years of research on the largest criminological field experiment ever conducted in Australia, and one of the largest world-wide. RISE, the Reintegrative...
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Nomadic Justice? Restorative Justice on the Margins of law
by Woolford, Andrew
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Paper presented at the joint meetings of the Law and Society Association and the Canadian law and Society Association, Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, BC, June 1, 2002. Woolford and Ratner state that restorative justice practitioners often describe themselves as operating on...
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On the Rocky Road to “Restoring” Justice: The Restorative Justice Movement in the United States
by Swan, Richelle Suzanne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Ph.D. dissertation, Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine. This study examines restorative justice activity in the United States through the lens of social movement theory. Interviews, participant observation, and document analysis are employed as...
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The Unified Family Court: Preventive, Therapeutic and Restorative Justice for America’s Families
by Town, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Preventive Law Symposium Fall 2000, California Western School of Law. 10 October 2002. http://www.preventivelawyer.org/main/default.asp?pid=essays/town.htm As Michael Town remarks, only recently have the public and the justice system begun to address...
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The State, the Community and Restorative Justice
by Schriml, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Justice as Healing 1 (1). Scriml describes the state as made up of the government, media, academe, religious organizations, and professions. All of these parties, some more directly than others, help to support a retributive or penal form of criminal justice. He notes that the...
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Punishment versus Healing: How Does Traditional Indian Law Work?
by Zion, James W
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Justice as Healing. 2(3) Many people are skeptical of justice methods which do not have punishment as their driving force. There is a great deal of disbelief about traditional Indian law for that reason, and there are many who are leery of the growing restorative justice...
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Restorative Moment in Court
by Boyack, Jim
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) LawTalk. 586:18-19. As a duty solicitor supervisor in Auckland District Court, Jim Boyack had an unusual experience that reminded him of the restorative justice potential in every criminal case. In this essay, he relates the incident, which involved charges against two brothers...
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Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge: A Federally Sentenced Women’s Initiative
by Green, Norma
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Forum on Corrections Research 12(1): 48-50 Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge, located in the Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, is a facility for federally sentenced Aboriginal women. It has been in operation since October 1995. It came into being as a result of Canada’s Federally...
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Norms, Legitimacy and law Enforcement
by Meares, Tracy L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Oregon Law Review. 79(2): 391. In various articles, Tracey Meares has employed social disorganization theory – the theory that structural and cultural organization of neighborhoods can either facilitate or hinder crime – to establish the relevance of sociological...
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Let Justice and Mercy Meet. Crime, Punishment and the Common Good in Light of Sacred Scripture and Catholic Teaching
by Catholic Bishops of Louisiana, Rustem
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) A pastoral statement by the Catholic Bishops of Louisiana. January 2002. This pastoral statement by the bishops of the Louisiana Catholic Conference is intended to inspire mercy in the administration of justice, particularly in Louisiana. In many ways, it stems from and extends...
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Making Amends: Final Evaluation of the Queensland Community Conferencing Pilot
by Hayes, Hennessey
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Queensland Department of Justice, Juvenile Justice Branch. In 1993 Queensland introduced the Juvenile Justice Act 1992. It was designed to accomplish several purposes: formalize certain processes, such as police cautioning of offenders, which previously had occurred on an...
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Restorative Justice Programs in Australia
by Strang, Heather
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) A report to the Criminology Research Council. Heather Strang begins this survey of restorative justice programs in Australia with an overview of restorative justice theory, practices, and roots. Against this background, she states that restorative justice programs in Australia...
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Where Society Must Rein in Government: Restorative Justice and Preservation of the Community
by Maksudov, Rustem
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Centre for Legal and Judicial Reform. In the early 1990s judicial reforms were implemented in Russia. Rustem Maksudov cites various attitudes to those reforms, and claims that little attention has been given to the ideal of justice inherent in the reforms and the problems...
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