A new model to deal with crime and its victims.
by Lampman, Jane
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Christian Science Monitor February 4: 17. Using examples from real life as well as interviews with experts, Lampman highlights the growth of restorative interventions on behalf of victims of crime – interventions such as victim-offender mediation. In this context she...
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Part One: Restorative justice in prisons – a New Zealand experience. Part Two by Judge Fred McElrea.
by McElrea, F W M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) ICPA News (December): 10, 12, 13. In this article, Jackie Katounas recounts her personal transformation from offender to ex-offender to restorative justice practitioner in New Zealand. Currently she works with a restorative justice program in the Hawkes Bay Regional Prison,...
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Balancing Zambian traditional and legal systems.
by Katongo, Jeston
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Peace Office Newsletter: Worldwide Peacebuilders 30 (January). This article consists of an interview with Jeston Katongo of the Mindola Ecumenical Foundation in Kitwe, Zambia. The Foundation is developing a program for peacebuilding and conflict resolution information. Katongo...
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The Policy Centre for Victim Issues – Giving victims a voice in the criminal justice system.
by Kane, Catherine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) The Victimologist 5 (June): 1, 7. In Canada, the federal, provincial and territorial governments share responsibility for responding to the needs of victims and defining the role of victims in the criminal justice system. Over the years, a number of legal and policy initiatives...
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Why have alternatives not been adopted more fully and what needs to be done? The European experience.
by Joutsen, Matti
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Address presented at the Beyond Prisons international symposium. Kingston, Ontario, March. Ottawa: Correctional Service of Canada. According to the author of this presentation, efforts to reduce incarceration through alternatives have been unsuccessful in most European...
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Restorative justice: Origins, use, impact, and resources. Part I: Birth and development of a movement.
by Immarigeon, Russ
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Crime Victims Report 5 (January/February): 90-92. Describing the birth of restorative justice, Immarigeon observes that it has diverse roots in reform proposals and practices in the latter half of the 1900s, as, for example, in the United States. These theoretical and practical...
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Redefining criminal justice to restore the community: The movement towards restorative justice.
by Hopf, Suzanne A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) The Advocate 21 (May). Hopf states that the retributive model has done little to alleviate the problem of juvenile delinquency and crime. Restorative justice differs from retributive justice in substantial ways, and it offers a more balanced approach, involving the victim, the...
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No royal road to reconciliation. Pendle Hill Pamphlet 321.
by Hoffman, Gene Knudsen
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications. In this pamphlet, Gene Knudsen Hoffman writes about trauma, healing, and reconciliation. She has long been involved in peacemaking activities through her Quaker affiliation and he participation in the Fellowship of Reconciliation. She...
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The role of forgiveness in reconstructing society after conflict.
by Hartwell, Marcia Byrom
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) The Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (May). In recent years the concept of forgiveness has received increased attention in relation to socio-political conflict. In this vein, Hartwell asks basic questions about the role of forgiveness in reconstructing society after conflict....
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A different kind of justice.
by Harris, Liz
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) TMs (photocopy). Liz Harris recounts her experience as a Community Group Conference facilitator in a community restorative justice pilot program in New Zealand. On this basis, and with reference to Howard Zehr’s Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice, she...
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Victims in the criminal justice system in China
by Guo-An, Mark
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) The Victimologist 5 (June): 1, 2, 5, 8, 9. In this article, Mark Guo-An looks at victims in the Chinese criminal justice system. He covers the definition and status of a criminal act and a crime victim in Chinese law, the classification of crime victims in criminal procedure, a...
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An evaluation/assessment of Navajo peacemaking
by Gross, Eric Kenneth
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Flagstaff, AZ: Northern Arizona University. In this paper, the author presents a preliminary analysis of research data on Navajo peacemaking as an intervention in family conflict, especially in comparison with outcomes from conventional family court. Navajo peacemaking bears...
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Criminal justice research: A point of departure in offender rehabilitation and restoration.
by Grigsby, Robert S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Iowa: Restorative Criminal Justice Institute of Iowa. The author argues that criminal justice research, as a branch of social science, has succumbed to the myth of “value-freeâ€? science and research; thus it has failed to understand adequately the problems of...
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Greater Shankill Alternatives: A restorative approach
by Greater Shankill Alternatives, Larry A.
June 4, 2015
Source: TMS (online). Northern Ireland: Greater Shankill Alternatives (Restorative Justice Project). Involving the victim, offender, and community, Greater Shankill Alternatives is a restorative justice project in Northern Ireland. This document uses a particular example of a youth in trouble...
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Indigenous people policing indigenous people: The potential psychological and cultural costs.
by Gould, Larry A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association meeting. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: University of Alberta, School of Native Studies. Police officers face significant levels of stress in their work. Gould maintains that...
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