Community Involvement Through Child Protection Mediation
by Barsky, Allan
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Child Welfare 78(4): 481- 501 Mediation has been used in child protection cases to help resolve conflicts involving child protection workers, parents, and other family members. This article explores whether mediation can foster greater community involvement with families that...
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Kinship Care of the Abused Child: The New Zealand Experience
by Worrall, Jill
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Child Welfare 80(5):497-511. The concept of continuity-keeping children within their own kinship, community, and cultural networks-has found international favor in contemporary child welfare practice. This principle is reflected in the 1989 New Zealand Children, Young Person,...
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Family Group Decision Making: Protecting Children and Women
by Pennell, Joan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Child Welfare Vol 79(2):131-158. With rising demands on child welfare, workers need to consider new options, including strategies that promote a collaborative effort of family, community, and government. Family group conferencing integrates efforts to advance child and adult...
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A Century of Forensic Social Work: Bridging the Past to the Present
by Roberts, Albert
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Social Work 44(4). This article traces the emergence of forensic social work from the Progressive Era and the founding of the first juvenile court in 1899 to present day policies and practices with victims of violent crimes and with juvenile and adult offenders. Although social...
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Conflict Mediation and the Postmodern: Chaos, Catastrophe, and Psychoanalytic Semiotics
by Scher, Robert C
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Social Justice 26(1). Methodological concerns about the effectiveness of contemporary conflict intervention strategies have resurged in the light of renewed hostilities in nations which have experienced geopolitical, economic, ethnic, religious and cultural conflicts. It is...
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A New Model of Welfare: Re-asserting the Value of Kinship for Children in State Care
by Ryburn, Murray
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Social Policy & Administration 32(1): 28-45 This paper briefly examines current arguments concerning the demise of the traditional family, pointing out that the numbers of lone-parent families are not historically unparalleled and noting that the current emphasis in the...
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Apology and Pardon: Learning from Japan
by Haley, John O
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) American Behavioral Scientist 41(6): 842-967. The author seeks to investigate particular elements of Japanese culture that may have contributed to the country’s success in reducing crime rates since World War II. In particular, he argues that the fundamental importance of...
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Rights, Religion, and Community: Approaches to Violence Against Women in the Context of Globalization
by Merry, Sally Engle
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Law & Society Review 35(1) Within the burgeoning global discourse on human rights, gender violence provides one of the most important examples of the use of rights to tackle a newly defined social problem. A comparison of three quite different approaches to violence against...
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Why Blunkett’s not doing us justice
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) The Independent (24 July). In this essay Martin Wright comments on a speech by Home Secretary David Blunkett. According to Wright, Blunkett spoke about the need to be tough on crime, especially with respect to violent and repeat offenders, but said little about prevention or...
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Toward a model penal system
by Vaughan, Barry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Dublin: Irish Penal Reform Trust. The Irish Penal Reform Trust commissioned an inquiry with two chief aims: (1) identification of the deficits of the Irish penal system; and (2) formulation of how a model penal system might be achieved. With these aims in mind, Barry Vaughan...
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Forgiveness: What it is. What it isn’t. What it can be
by Van Gorp, Krista
June 4, 2015
Source: faithWORKS Forgiveness is difficult to define, according to the author of this article, though there is much talk in society and the media about it. Against this background, Van Gorp points to increasing research, especially in the field of psychology, into the nature, practice, and...
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Reclaiming kids. An interview with John Calhoun
by van Gelder, Sarah
June 4, 2015
Source: (1994) In Context: A Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture (Spring): 24ff. In this article Sarah van Gelder interviews John Calhoun – executive director of the National Crime Prevention Council, and founder and former director of the Justice Resource Institute – to talk...
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Crime and victim surveys
by van Dijk, Jan
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) In International victimology: Selected papers from the 8th international symposium, held in Adelaide, Australia, 21-26 August 1994, ed. by Chris Sumner, Mark Israel, Michael O’Connell, and Rick Sarre, 121-133. Conference proceedings, no. 27. Canberra: Australian Institute...
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Juvenile victim offender mediation in six Oregon counties. Final report
by Coates, Robert B
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Washington, DC: National Organization for Victim Assistance; and Salem, OR: Oregon Dispute Resolution Commission The Oregon Dispute Resolution Commission contracted with the National Organization for Victim Assistance to evaluate juvenile victim offender mediation programs in...
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South Africa: A beacon of hope. With introduction by Kari Thorene
by Tutu, Desmond
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Yes! Magazine (Fall) Kari Thorene introduces this article by summarizing the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). She asserts that the TRC has been a powerful force for healing in post-apartheid South Africa, yet she acknowledges that some have...
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