“Re-forming Juvenile Justice: The New Zealand Experiment. “
by Morris, Allison
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Prison Journal. 77(2):125-134 The United States is not the only place experiencing increases in juvenile correctional populations. This article examines the impact of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act of 1989 in New Zealand. Included in this act are some of the...
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Understanding Reoffending.
by Maxwell, Gabrielle
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Institute of Criminology, Wellington. 1999. This report examines whether or not family group conferences can contribute to the reintegration of offenders and to the prevention of reoffending. It also provides a method of retrospective analysis which can be used to model factors...
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“Victim/offender mediation in the United Kingdom: legal background and practice.”
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Paper to Seminar on mediation between juvenile offenders and their victims, organized by the Council of Europe and the Ministry of Justice (Institute of Justice) of Poland, Popowo, near Warsaw, October 1997. Outlines English and Scottish youth justice systems, and current...
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“The development of restorative justice.”
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Paper for International Program on Victimization, mediation and restorative justice, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, September 1997. Published in Juvenile offender-victim mediation, ed. by Beata Czarnecka-Dzialuk and Dobrochna Wójcik. Warsaw: Oficyna Naukowa, 1999. Historical...
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“Victim/offender conferencing: the need for safeguards.”
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Paper presented to International Conference: Restorative justice for juveniles – potentialities, risks and problems for research, Leuven, Belgium, 1997. The paper discusses the concept of restorative justice, and the practice of conferencing, suggesting criteria for...
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“Why should victims of crime be compensated?”
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Paper to 11th International Congress on Criminology, Budapest, August 1993. (Published in: Support for crime victims in a comparative perspective: essays in memory of Derick McClintock, ed. by E A Fattah and T Peters. University Press, 1998. Leuven.) The thinking of the Victim...
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“Compensation by the offender in England and Wales.”
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) Paper to 2nd East-West European Conference on Victimology, Madralin by Warsaw, January 1993. A summary, for an overseas audience, of the operation of compensation...
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“The rights of victims: making good the harm.”
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Criminal Justice Matters (Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency), 1995/96 (22), Winter, 4-5. Abridged version of evidence to the Justice working party on victims in the criminal justice process, proposing a victim-centred response to...
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“Meeting the Courts Charter’s standards: a role for mediation.”
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1994) The Justices’ Clerk, 1994 (153), May, 86-89. Minor conflicts such as neighbour disputes can have serious consequences, including violence and even murder. The quality and standards of courts and of mediation, as means of handling them, are...
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“Mediation: the idea: influences on the development of conflict resolution.”
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) Justice of the Peace, 1993 November 27, 766-7. The development of community mediation in the United States during the 1960s and 70s is briefly outlines, including ideas brought back to the West from technologically simple societies by anthropologists; the article ends with a...
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“From retribution to restoration: a new model for criminal justice.”
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1987) Christian, 1987 July/August, 21-25 Some biblical references on the use of...
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“Crime and reparation: breaking the penal logjam.”
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1981) New Society, 1981 December 10, 444-446 Description of early mediation and reparation projects, and their implications for dealing with offenders and helping...
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“Victims: towards a re-orientation of justice.”
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) In, Probation: working for justice, ed. by D Ward and M Lacey. London: Whiting and Birch. A short outline of the development of Victim Support in the United Kingdom, and its relationship to the criminal justice system, especially the courts. It is suggested that victim/offender...
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“Victims, offenders and restorative justice.”
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) In, Victim & offender mediation handbook, ed. by D Quill and J Wynne. (West Yorkshire Probation Service and Save the Children.) Bristol: Mediation UK. Considers questions affecting the operation of a mediation service, such as independence from stautory bodies, and...
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“Reducing Juvenile Crime: Conferencing versus Court.
by Luke, Garth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) New South Wales. Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research With the commencement of the Young Offenders Act in April 1998, Youth Justice Conferencing was introduced across NSW as an alternative to a court appearance for young offenders. At a conference the young offender(s),...
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