Restorative justice in Vermont: A work in progress
by Dooley, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) In Community justice: Striving for safe, secure, and just communities, ed. LIS, Inc., 30-35. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections. In the mid 1990s Vermont embarked on a complete restructuring of its correctional services in terms of...
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Restorative justice and police complaints: A Report by the Independent Police Complaints Authority
by Dobry, Josephine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) London: The Police Complaints Authority The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) is the independent body that oversees complaints against serving police officers in England and Wales. In this report for the PCA, Josephine Dobry examines prospects for the application of restorative...
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Why neighborhood supervision?
by Dickey, Walter J
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) In Community justice: Striving for safe, secure, and just communities, ed. LIS, Inc., 41-44. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections. Observing the increasing use of the terms “neighborhood supervisionâ€? and...
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Improving our knowledge of victimization and the impacts of crime
by Deacon, Jamie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Horizons 3 (October): 4, 5. Deacon emphasizes in this essay the importance of increasing knowledge about victimization and the effects of crime, particularly in the areas of organized crime and transnational crime. There have been many innovations in the last ten years in...
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Expanding horizons: Rethinking access to justice in Canada
by Currie, Ab
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Horizons 3 (October): 23. The authors of this short article summarize key themes from a symposium in March 2000 on access to justice in Canada. Participants distinguished between access to the justice system and access to justice. Focus on access to the justice system really...
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Community justice: Striving for safe, secure, and just communities.
by LIS, Inc.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections. This publication collects a number of articles written by practitioners and academicians in criminal justice and law. Dealing with various topics, the articles explore the movement from criminal...
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Beyond crime and punishment
by Chapman, Laura A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Horizons 3 (October): 2. Issues of crime and public safety directly affect people, and increasing globalization means that such issues will become more varied – so writes Laura Chapman, Executive Director of the Policy Research Secretariat (Canada). Examples of new crime...
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Can restorative justice mend strained relations?
by Workshop Report, Bonnie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Horizons 3 (October): 24 At a workshop in Ottawa in May 2000, participants responded to the question, “Can restorative justice mend strained relations?â€? To answer, restorative justice was defined and principles of restorative justice were identified....
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Community criminal justice: Building on the lessons that community policing teaches.
by Bucqueroux, Bonnie
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) In Community justice: Striving for safe, secure, and just communities, ed. LIS, Inc., 8-13. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections. As Bucqueroux notes, proponents of community policing believe that it has the potential to serve as the...
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Abolishment of punishment
by Boyle, Vera
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) The Friend (June 30). In this short essay, Vera Boyle makes her case that punishment is an evil, and that incarceration is a punishment that ensures a further supply of professional criminals. She finds an example in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission for...
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Restitution as an objective of the criminal justice system
by Benson, Bruce L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Journal of the James Madison Institute (Winter), 17-22. Benson begins his consideration of restitution with three points: (1) justice demands that, when a crime occurs, action be taken to reflect the negative consequences of the resulting harm back upon the perpetrator of the...
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The guilt of nations: Restitution and negotiating historical injustices
by Barkan, Elazar
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) New York: W. W. Norton & Company. In this book, Elazar Barkan traces what he calls the “new global trend of restitution for historical injustices,â€? a trend based on the novel demand that nations act morally and acknowledge their own past wrongdoing....
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Moving toward community justice
by Barajas Jr, Eduardo
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) In Community justice: Striving for safe, secure, and just communities, ed. LIS, Inc., 1-7. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections. In this article, Barajas maintains that a revolution is occurring in criminal justice – the emergence...
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Victim offender conferencing in Pennsylvania’s juvenile justice system
by Zehr, Howard
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Harrisonburg, PA: Eastern Mennonite University, Conflict Transformation Program. As guided by state legislation in the mid 1990s, the mission of the Pennsylvania juvenile justice system is rooted in restorative justice ideas and practices. This has led to a significant dialogue...
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Crime, justice and treatment of offenders.
by Albright, Harry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) The Friend (September 8). Harry Albright writes in this article about discussions on restorative justice at the Friends World Committee Triennial in July 2000. At the Triennial, attendees heard information on Quaker efforts to promote restorative justice at United...
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