’No More Excuses!’: Young People, Victims and Making Amends
by Walklate, Sandra
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Policy Studies 19(3/4). The title of this paper, borrowed from a government White Paper, is concerned to explore the viability of the proposed stance towards youth crime and disorder exemplified in the UK Crime and Disorder Act 1998. In that legislation, much is made of the...
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Moral Education in Victim Offender Conferencing
by Schweigert, Francis J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Criminal Justice Ethics 18(2). If every crime represents a failure in moral learning—on the part of the offender, his/her community, and possibly the surrounding society-then every crime also presents an opportunity for moral learning. Just as the child accepting a...
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Victim Awareness Programs for Delinquent Youths: Effects on Moral Reasoning Maturity
by Putnins, Aldis L
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Adolescence 32(127). The influence of Victim Awareness Program (VAP) attendance on the sociomoral reasoning maturity of juvenile delinquents was investigated. Subjects were inmates (aged 14-18 years) of two youth secure-care centers in Adelaide, South Australia. The treatment...
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Peacemaking as Ceremony: The Mediation Model of the Navajo Nation
by Pinto, Jeanmarie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) The International Journal of Conflict Management 11(3): 267-286. This paper provides a brief overview of the Navajo Nation’s Peacemaker process. This process is unique in that it is taken directly from the traditional methods of dispute resolution used throughout the...
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Is Child Saving Dead? Public Support for Juvenile Rehabilitation
by Cullen, Francis T
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Crime & Delinquency 46(1): 38-60. In recent years, the sustained criticism leveled at juvenile rehabilitation has raised the question of whether the public continues to endorse the correctional policy of saving youthful offenders. However, in a 1998 statewide survey of...
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Sentence Completion and Recidivism Among Juveniles Referred to Teen Courts
by Minor, Kevin I
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Crime & Delinquency 45(4): 467-480 This study focuses on sentence completion and recidivism of juveniles referred to teen courts for disposition by their peers as an alternative to judicial sentencing. More than 70 percent of the referrals completed their sentences, and...
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Differences in how Girls and Boys Respond to Family Group Conference: Preliminary Research Results
by Maxwell, Gabrielle
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Social Policy Journal of New Zealand (December 2001), page 171ff. This paper presents preliminary findings from an analysis of interviews and file data on a sample of young people who had youth justice family group conferences in New Zealand in 1998. The file data were available...
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Law’s Progressive Potential: The Value of Engagement with the Law for Domestic Violence
by Dobash, Rebecca Emerson
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Social & Legal Studies 10(1): 105-130. Can the law be usefully employed to help women who experience domestic violence achieve ‘justice’? This question has been at the heart of debates about domestic violence over the last few decades. In this paper, we review...
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Experiencing Hate Speech: Perceptions and Responses to Anti-Semitism and Antigay Speech
by Leets, Laura
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Journal of Social Issues 58(2). This study examines how people experience hate speech. Specifically, it assesses people’s perceptions regarding both the antecedents and outcomes of such expression targeted at Jews and homosexuals. One hundred twenty university students...
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Anarchaos Theory and Order: On the emergence of social Justice
by Williams, Christopher
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Theoretical Criminology. 5(2): 223-252 In this article, the authors explore aspects of anarchism and of chaos theory, suggesting that recent insights advanced by the latter shed new light on the former. The former conceptually explains the importance of natural order as a human...
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The class politics of domestic violence.
by McKendy, J. P
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. 24(3):135-155. Abstract...
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Nurturing the seeds of restorative justice
by Holtquist, S. E
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Journal of Community Practice. 6(2): 63-77. Abstract...
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A response to Mike Nellis: probation values for the 1990s
by Spencer, Jon
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. 34(4):344-349. Abstract...
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World criminal justice
by Griffiths, Curt Taylor
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. 20(2):195-355. Abstract...
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Restorative justice and mediation
by Boutellier, Hans
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. 4(4): 7-130 Abstract...
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