Current Mediation Practices in the Netherlands
by Kleiboer, M. A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Mediation 26(9). In the last 5 years, more than 1,600 mediators have requested to be registered by the Netherlands Mediation Institute. Their number is increasing rapidly; in the second half of 2000, each and every month 100 newcomers were welcomed. Most of them have a...
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Beyond Restorative Justice
by Herman, Susan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In, Brian Williams (ed.), Reparation And Victim-Focused Social Work (pp 34-44). London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Restorative justice holds great promise as a set of values which promote healing and strengthen the social bonds which serve as the foundation of our...
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The End of the Restorative Justice Myth… Towards an Intergrated Model for the Restorative Paradigm
by Nadeau, Jason
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In, Brian Williams (ed.), Reparation And Victim-Focused Social Work (pp 34-44). London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. In 1974, Martinson wrote that, “nothing works”, with that simple assessment the Era of the Medical Model of Rehabilitation came to an abrupt end....
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Introducing Restorative Justice in Prison Settlement
by Verstraete, Anneli
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In, Brian Williams (ed.), Reparation And Victim-Focused Social Work (pp 34-44). London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. In January 1998 the Belgian Federal Minister of Justice decided to start a research project in six different Belgian prisons with the objective of finding out...
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s (RCMP) Perspective and Application on Restorative Justice
by Tousignant, Alain
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In, Brian Williams (ed.), Reparation And Victim-Focused Social Work (pp 34-44). London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. For hundreds of years, in almost all modern societies, the word “justice” has evoked the concepts of crime and punishment. At the turn of the...
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Restorative Justice and Compensation of Non-Material Damages
by Malsch, Marijke
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In, Brian Williams (ed.), Reparation And Victim-Focused Social Work (pp 34-44). London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This paper discusses compensation of non-material damages suffered by victims of crime. A comparison is made between compensation offered to victims of...
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A Restorative Justice Response to Interpersonal Violence
by Snyman, Rika
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In, Brian Williams (ed.), Reparation And Victim-Focused Social Work (pp 34-44). London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Restorative justice redirects the focus of the entire criminal justice system and inspires an innovative approach to addressing interpersonal violence. This...
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Restorative Justice: Public and Punitive
by Kaptein, Hendrik
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In, Brian Williams (ed.), Reparation And Victim-Focused Social Work (pp 34-44). London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Two well-known and related criticisms against restorative justice in criminal law concern a supposed lack of punitive character of restorative measures and a...
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Restorative Justice: The Choice between Bilateral Decision-Making Power and Third Party Intervention
by Wemmers, J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In, Brian Williams (ed.), Reparation And Victim-Focused Social Work (pp 34-44). London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. In recent years there has been a new interest in procedural justice theory and especially for the criminal justice process. In their classic work on...
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Decolonising Restoration and Justice: Restoration in Transitional Cultures
by Findlay, Mark
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) The Howard Journal 39(4). This article is a strategy for the comparative analysis of justice in various contesting forms. To identify useful levels of the comparative project, the colonising potential of restorative justice is examined. In this context the influence of...
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Restorative Justice in Conflict: Paramilitarism, Community, and the Construction of Legitimacy in Northern Ireland
by Mika, Harry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Contemporary Justice Review 4(3, 4): 291-319. Paramilitary punishment violence (beatings, shootings, threats and exclusions) in Republican and Loyalist areas of Northern Ireland – itself a manifestation of community-based justice responses to the...
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Transforming Conflict in the Inner City Community Conferencing in Baltimore
by Abramson, Lauren
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Contemporary Justice Review 4(3, 4): 321-340 Restorative justice practices have long been available to the economically privileged, leaving the poor to fend for themselves in our overburdened and retributive system. For the past two years we have been involved in the development...
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The Evolving Definition of Restorative Justice
by Roche, Declan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Contemporary Justice Review 4(3, 4): 341-353 The rapid growth in criminal justice programs labeled as restorative justice is the starting point for this article. The often considerable differences between these programs invite consideration of the meaning of restorative justice....
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The Use of Victim Impact Panels in Domestic Violence Cases: A Restorative Justice Approach
by Fulkerson, Andrew
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Contemporary Justice Review 4(3, 4): 355-368. The present article looks at the effectiveness of Victim Impact Panels for victims and offenders in domestic violence cases. A study was conducted in five court jurisdictions in the State of Arkansas that used Victim Impact Panels...
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Participation in Victim-Offender Mediation and Reoffense: Successful Replications?
by Nugent, William R
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Research on Social Work Practice 11(1). A study was conducted to determine the extent to which four investigations of the effect of participation in victim-offender mediation (VOM) on reoffense were successful replications. Method: The data from these four studies were combined...
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