Restoring justice
by Van Wormer, Katherine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) USA Today (Magazine) (November). In this article, Katherine Van Wormer analyzes the current criminal justice system in the United States – with its adversarial approach to adjudication of disputes and offenses and its high rate of incarceration – and illuminates...
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The restorative justice and mediation collection: Executive summary.
by Umbreit, Mark S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) OVC Bulletin (July). Increasingly, restorative justice and mediation programs are being used to assist crime victims and hold offenders accountable. This issue of OVC Bulletin summarizes five major documents comprising The Restorative Justice and Mediation Collection.The five...
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Restorative justice as a transformative process: The application of restorative justice principles to our everyday lives
by Sullivan, Dennis
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Voorheesville, NY: Mutual Aid Press. In this pamphlet, Dennis Sullivan and Larry Tifft begin where many begin in discussing restorative justice: questioning a criminal justice system in the United States characterized by a punitive and retributive framework of justice, resulting...
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Domestic violence and women’s safety: Feminist challenges to restorative justice.
by Stubbs, Julie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) In Restorative justice and family violence, ed. Heather Strang and John Braithwaite, 42-61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In this essay, Julie Stubbs focuses on domestic violence, as against other forms of family violence. Beginning with the perspective that domestic...
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Crimes against schools: The potential for a restorative justice approach
by Strang, Heather
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Paper presented at the International Forum on Initiatives for Safe Schools: School Violence Prevention and Juvenile Protection – What Works?, held in Seoul, South Korea, June 22-25. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences, Law Program....
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Floating off on a life of its own
by Spaulding, Patricia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Reflections: A Journal of the Conflict Transformation Program 1: 10-11. The Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, Virginia) offers a Summer Peacebuilding Institute for interested people from around the world. Many who would like to attend...
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Aküm Longchari: A brief interview with a Naga peacebuilder
by Spaulding, Patricia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Reflections: A Journal of the Conflict Transformation Program 1: 29-32. Nagalim (Nagaland) is a territory located at the juncture of China, India, and Burma. It has had a longstanding dispute with India to maintain independence from India. Aküm Longchari, a graduate of the...
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Restorative justice: A vision for healing and change
by Sharpe, Susan
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Mediation and Restorative Justice Centre. A mediator, facilitator, and trainer in private practice, Susan Sharpe wrote this book on behalf of the Edmonton Victim Offender Mediation Society, now the Mediation and Restorative Justice Centre. The purpose...
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Community justice in the Netherlands.
by Scholtz, Henk Marquart
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Paper presented at the sixth annual conference of the International Association of Prosecutors, held in Sydney, Australia, 2-7 September. Discussing community justice in the Netherlands, Scholtz first outlines geographical statistics for the Netherlands and modern crime trends...
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Returning to the teachings: Exploring aboriginal justice
by Ross, Rupert
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Toronto: Penguin Books. As an Assistant Crown Attorney, Rupert Ross was seconded in 1992 to the Aboriginal Justice Directorate of Justice Canada. He spent the next three years traveling across Canada to explore aboriginal approaches to justice and the traditional culture behind...
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Restorative justice and family violence
by Braithwaite, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Many proponents of restorative justice tout its potential for systemic and comprehensive transformation of the criminal justice system. Others – of whom some are advocates of restorative justice and some are critics – contend...
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Transforming probation through leadership: The “broken windows” model.
by Reinventing Probation Council, Johanna
June 4, 2015
Source: New York: Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Center for Civic Innovation; and Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Robert A. Fox Leadership Program. The “broken windowsâ€? metaphor, introduced by Wilson and Kelling in 1982, indicates that small disorders...
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Restorative values and confronting family violence.
by Pranis, Kay
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) In Restorative justice and family violence, ed. Heather Strang and John Braithwaite, 23-41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kay Pranis begins her discussion of restorative values and family violence by explaining her framework for understanding those values. Specifically,...
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Diversion and restorative justice: The drug court of New South Wales.
by Pheils, Johanna
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Paper presented at the sixth annual conference of the International Association of Prosecutors, held in Sydney, Australia, 2-7 September. Johanna Pheils identifies two types of harm from drug use: adverse effects on the health of the user (health impact); and an increased rate...
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Feminist praxis: Making family group conferencing work.
by Pennell, Joan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) In Restorative justice and family violence, ed. Heather Strang and John Braithwaite, 108-127. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pennell and Burford state that family group conferencing can stop family violence and child maltreatment. From a study they made in Canada, the...
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