Making criminals pay: A New York county’s bold experiment in biblical justice
by Loconte, Joe
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Policy Review. 87 (January-February) Using real examples of crime and response to crime, Joe Loconte profiles a felony diversion program in Genesee County, New York. With a certain initial skepticism about such programs, Loconte finds the Genesee program tough on crime yet...
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Fostering authentic reconciliation processes
by Lederach, John Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Report, no. 20 (Spring): 1-4. The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. In the field of conflict transformation and peacebuilding, increasing attention is being paid to the pursuit of reconciliation. However, Lederach maintains, peacebuilding practitioners are...
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Restorative justice – a community-based response to crime
by Harmon, Will
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) The Compass (Summer). Despite trends toward mandatory sentencing, prison overcrowding, and high recidivism, justice can be restorative, Will Harmon argues in this article. Restorative justice emphasizes community-based problem-solving rather than “just...
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What is this thing called reconciliation?
by Hamber, Brandon
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Paper presented at the After Truth and Reconciliation Commission forum, at the Goedgedacht Farm, Cape Town, 28 March. Downloaded 2 June 2004. As Hamber and van der Merwe observe, the question is regularly asked in South Africa whether the work of the Truth and Reconciliation...
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Rebuilding communities: Stopping crime at its roots
by Gilman, Robert
June 4, 2015
Source: (1994) In Context: A Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture (Spring): 59ff. Beginning with the idea of social change oriented toward more humane and sustainable conditions and systems, Gilman explores conditions that foster crime and changes that would reduce crime. He construes crime...
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The Zimbabwe community service scheme
by Garwe, Paddington
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Paper presented at the Beyond Prisons symposium in Kingston, Ontario, March Community service as an alternative to incarceration came into existence in Zimbabwe following an amendment to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act in 1992. In this address, Justice Paddington Garwe...
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Gacaca, Inkundla, traditional systems of justice being looked at in the US as ‘Restorative Justice.’
by Marek, Ed
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Your dot com for Africa (October 9). This article deals with traditional justice in Africa and restorative justice in the United States. Following periods of violence in Rwanda and South Africa, these countries are trying to respond to crimes at least in part through traditional...
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Restitution and offender-victim arrangement in German criminal law: Development and theoretical implications
by Freshee, Detlev
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Buffalo Criminal Law Review 3 (1): 235-259 In this paper Frehsee surveys restitution and mediation in the German criminal law. He looks at the development and application of restitution and mediation in the German criminal justice system, the perspectives of criminal justice...
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Ethnic diversity-challenges for courts
by Fenton, Florence
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Address presented at the Third National Family Court Conference, in Melbourne, Australia, 20-24 October Florence Fenton, Director of the Fiji Law Reform Commission, begins this address by providing a summary of the historical, social, geographical, and political background to...
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Restorative justice
by Evers, Tag
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Yes! Magazine (Fall) To explore restorative justice concretely in this article, Evers relates the experience of Thomas Ann Hines, mother of Paul Hines, who was murdered in Texas when he was 21 years old. Thomas Ann Hines tells of her grief and anger and desire for the offender...
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Alternative sentencing in South Africa
by Dissel, Amanda
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) In Reconciliation International 4 (August). South Africa: Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. Downloaded 2 June 2004. Since the early 1990s, South Africa – faced with overcrowded prisons and the failure of prisons to prevent offending and re-offending...
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Retribution and reconciliation
by Crocker, David A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly 20 (Winter-Spring). The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission pursued wrongs done under apartheid by granting amnesty in exchange for truth. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, chair of the commission, has defended this arrangement for...
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Report on community chaplaincies-– Part 1
by Correctional Service of Canada, Warren
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Ottawa: Correctional Service of Canada. The community chaplaincy program in Canada, begun in the 1980s, extends the work of the chaplaincy from the correctional facility to the community. This community-based ministry receives ex-offenders and links ex-offenders and their...
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Protecting society through community corrections
by Correctional Service of Canada
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Ottawa: Correctional Service of Canada Most offenders in Canada spend only part of their sentence in prison; the rest is served in the community under particular conditions and supervision (by Correctional Service of Canada staff). Community corrections consists of gradually...
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Overview of community corrections
by Correctional Service of Canada
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Interactive Corrections (August). Ottawa: Correctional Service of Canada. Downloaded 2 June 2004. In 1994 the Correctional Service of Canada established the National Community Corrections Council to instill community values into all strategic decisions of the Service,...
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