Three and a Half Years of Restorative Justice in Russia
by Fliamer, Mikhail
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Centre for Legal and Judicial Reform. In this article, Mikhail Fliamer and Rustem Maksudov report on the work of the Centre for Legal and Judicial Reform, an organization oriented toward reform of the judicial system of the Russian federation. According to the authors, they and...
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The Domestication of Violence in Mediation
by Cobb, Sarah
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Law and Society Review 31(3):397-440. This article, based on an analysis of 30 community mediation sessions, provides a theoretical frame for tracking the emergence and domestication of violence stories in the sessions of themselves. Challenging the Cartesian distinction between...
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Facilitator’s Implementation Guide
by Department of Health and Human Services, Burma
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Tasmania, Australia: Department of Health and Human Services. This guide was produced by the Tasmanian department of health and Human Services to serve as a guide to facilitators in community conferencing. Topics covered include: background to community conferencing, organizing...
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Restorative Justice and Conferencing in Australia
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice. NO. 186. This paper outline recent Australian Developments in restorative justice and conferencing. Restorative justice encompasses a variety of practices at different stages of the criminal process, including diversion from court...
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Community Holistic Circle Healing: A Community Approach
by Bushie, Burma
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. The author describes the work of healing circles (akin to community and family conferences) in a Native community in Canada to...
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But They All Come Back: Rethinking Prisoner Reentry
by Travis, Jeremy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Sentencing & Corrections. Issues for the 21st Century. Papers from the Executive Sessions On Sentencing and Corrections. No. 7 Under current popular efforts to abolish parole, it has lost its effectiveness as reentry manager. At the same time, important innovations are...
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Aboriginal Healing Program Evaluation: Success Through Negotiation
by Benson, Allen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Forum on Corrections Research. 12(1): 51-52 The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) has entered into partnerships with other agencies and Aboriginal communities to provide culturally appropriate programming for Aboriginal offenders. Such programming should recognize that holism...
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RCMP’s Restorative Justice Initiative
by Chatterjee, Jharna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Forum on Corrections Research. 12(1): 35-37 With the aim of pursuing policing within a restorative justice framework, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have chosen the Community Justice Forum (CJF) as a discretionary option for performing their policing duties. This initiative...
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Restorative Justice in the Youth Court: A Square Peg in a Round Hole?
by Becroft, Andrew
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Restorative Justice Online. May 2006 Edition. New Zealand is known as a leader in the application of restorative justice to youth offending, with over 80% of juvenile offenses being handled through police diversion. The remaining 16-20% results in formal charges in the youth...
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Truth and Reconciliation: a psycholegal perspective
by Allan, Alfred
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Ethnicity and Health. 5(3/4):191-204 The South African Truth and Reconcilaition Commission (TRD) represents one model of dealing with human rights abuses at a national level. Such abuses, and the subsequent attempts to come to terms with them, can cause mental disorders and...
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Linking Crime Prevention to Restorative Justice
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Paper presented at the First North American Conference on Conferencing. Minneapolis, 6-8 August 1998. Braithwaite argues that restorative justice will never become a mainstream alternative to retributive justice unless long-term research and development programs show that it...
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Punishment, Postgenocide: From Guilt to Shame to Civis in Rwanda
by Drumbl, Mark A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) New York Law Review. 75:1221 Following the 1994 Rwandan genocide, national and international trials set out to encourage national reconciliation, promote peace, punish perpetrators, foster a culture of human rights, and effective justice. In this artilce, Professor Mark Drumbl...
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Restorative justice, reparation, and the Southside Project.
by Zellerer, Evelyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In What is community justice? Case studies of restorative justice and community supervision, ed. David R. Karp and Todd R. Clear, pp. 89-107. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. The relationship between restorative justice and community justice is a vital issue. In the view of...
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Journey to belonging
by Zehr, Howard
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on Restorative Justice for Juveniles, October (Tübingen, Germany). Howard Zehr in this paper explores what he calls the ‘journey to belonging’ for both victims of crime and offenders. He acknowledges that some...
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What is community justice? Case studies of restorative justice and community supervision
by Karp, David R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. According to the editors of this volume, new approaches to community supervision are emerging where the focus of supervision is not just on criminal justice but on community justice. Such approaches are tailored to fit the particular needs...
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