Truth, Justice, Peace: The Foundations of Restorative Justice
by Colson, Charles
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Regent University Law Review 10, Spring 1998. In this essay, Colson contends that a society will exchange personal liberty for personal safety when a lack of internal restraint causes crime to increase. The lack of internal restraint succeeds a loss of truth, justice, and peace....
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Juvenile Justice: A Work in Progress.
by Spon, Ronald D
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Regent University Law Review 10, Spring 1998. This article examines and advocates the “Balanced and Restorative Justice” model for juvenile justice. The authors begin by discussing the relationship between true justice and moral justice as they pertain to the...
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Reinventing Community Corrections in Washington State
by Lehman, Joseph D
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Corrections Management Quarterly 5(3). The crisis in the criminal and juvenile justice systems was seen as fueled by the public’s view that the system no longer represented an effective response to crime. There was skepticism over the system’s ability to provide...
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Reintegrating High-Risk Juvenile Offenders into Communities: Experiences and Prospects.
by Altschuler, David M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Corrections Management Quarterly 5(3) This article described the Intensive Aftercare Program (IAP) model, its components and implementation options, and what some of the next steps might be. The IAP was explicitly designed to address two acknowledged deficiencies of...
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Philosophy of Community Policing in China
by Wong, Kam C.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Police Quarterly 4(2):186-214. Part I of this article states the focus and justifications of this research, which is an effort to contrast American and Chinese community-policing philosophy and practice. Part 2, which serves both as a literature review and a comparative context...
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An African perspective on justice and race
by Ramose, Mogobe B
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Themes. Most cultures uphold the principle that all humans are equal in their humanity. From this flows the idea of justice as giving to the other what is due to them. In practice this means, accordingly, equal and nondiscriminatory treatment to equal cases. Colonization and...
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Restorative Justice Empowerment.
by Barton, Charles
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at Just Peace? Peace Making and Peace Building for the New Millennium. Albany , Auckland. New Zealand. April 24-28, 2000. With the growing prominence of restorative justice interventions, criminal justice is being reconceptualised in terms of a new paradigm of...
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Where There’s a Will There is Mediation: Committees, the Impact of Conflict and Positive Ways of Working Together
by Gibbs, Anita
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at Just Peace? Peace Making and Peace Building for the New Millennium. Albany , Auckland. New Zealand. April 24-28, 2000. Conflict is managed in a variety of ways by committees, steering groups and management boards within voluntary and nonprofit organisations....
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The impact of restorative interventions on juvenile offenders
by Schiff, Mara F.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) In Gordon Bazemore and Lode Walgrave (eds.), Restorative juvenile justice: Repairing the harm of youth crime. With an introduction by Gordon Bazemore and Lode Walgrave. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press. Pp. 327-356. Schiff examines the effects of restorative justice...
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Conference Facilitator’s Script. From Conferencing Handbook: The New Real Justice Training Manual.
by O'Connell, Terry
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Piper’s Press. Taken from a handbook on conferencing, this is an actual script or guide for dialogue that a facilitator can use in a conference with the offender, victim, and related...
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Building Justice on a Foundation of Democracy, Caring, and Mutual Responsibility.
by Pranis, Kay
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) From forthcoming book ICOPA IX: A Call to Transformative Justice Pranis outlines the possibilities of restorative justice to open the door to a new kind of democracy. Using the language of inclusion and the ethic of care, restorative processes such as circles create spaces of...
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The Voices of Peacemaking Criminology: Insights into a Perspective with an Eye Toward Teaching
by Wozniak, John F
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Contemporary Justice Review 3(3). Examines the distinction of peacemaking criminology and how it represents a departure from mainstream criminology. How peacemaking criminology can contribute toward a transformation of policies of criminal justice system; Considerations of how...
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Designing Restorative Justice Policy: An Analytical Perspective
by Lemley, Ellen C
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Criminal Justice Policy Review 12(1). The emerging notion of restorative justice loosely rests on several related, though distinct, theoretical, religious, and historical traditions. Efforts to implement restorative justice policies in the criminal processes in the United States...
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Healing the Victim, the Young Offender, and the Community Via Restorative Justice: An International Perspective
by Goren, Suzanne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Issues in Mental Health Nursing 22:137-149. The 1990s saw the enactment of much “get tough with young offenders” legislation in the United States. At the same time, problems with our present punishment and treatment model, in which many youngsters cycle repeatedly...
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The Meaning of Reconciliation for Prisoners Serving Long Sentences.
by Fraley, Stephen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Contemporary Justice Review 4(1) Prisoners who are serving long-term sentences face a unique challenge once they seek to reconcile with those whom they have harmed. This might be with the persons directly affected by an act of violence or the families and friends of the...
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