Book Review: Restorative Justice and Civil Society.
by Strong, Gregory
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Restorative Justice Online June 2002 Edition. Strong reviews Restorative Justice and Civil Society, edited by Heather Strang and John...
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New Project Aims to Educate Churches About Restorative Justice.
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Restorative Justice Online June 2002 Edition. Continuing the tradition of calling the church take action on social issues, the Southern Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) will launch Project Help: Restorative Justice in June 2002. Taking as its theme ‘Act Justly,...
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Restorative Justice Service in Christchurch.
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Restorative Justice Online June 2002 Edition. In New Zealand, restorative justice has received much grassroots support with the creation of community-based services. The Restorative Justice Service (RJS) of Christchurch is one such community initiative providing conferencing...
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Constructing a report: Writing up the ‘truth.’
by Villa-Vicencio, Charles
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Truth v. justice: The morality of truth commissions, eds. Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson, 279-294. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. The writers of the Final Report of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) sought to summarize vast amounts...
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Truth v. justice: The morality of truth commissions.
by Thompson, Dennis
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. For societies emerging from an oppressive and a violent past to a more democratic political order, it has become relatively common to deal with traumatic conditions and wrongs of that past through some form of truth commission. Various...
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Restorative justice: Healing the foundations of our everyday lives.
by Sullivan, Dennis
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Foreword by Harry Mika. Monsey, NY: Willow Tree Press. Second edition 2005. Sullivan and Tifft note the rise of interest in restorative justice in recent years in international criminal justice, criminology, sociology, and political science spheres. Yet, they contend, proponents...
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Assisting victims of violence around the world: An evolving field
by Stevens, Lynne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) The Crime Victims Report 5 (November/December): 67-68, 76. Discussing assistance to victims of violence, Stevens focuses in this article on issues related to violence against women. She describes an evolution in this field from recognition and documentation of the problem to...
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The Protestant ethic and the spirit of punishment
by Snyder, T. Richard
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. In this book, T. Richard Snyder, a seminary dean and professor, investigates the connection between Christianity and the spirit of punishment that he believes characterizes American society and, consequently,...
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Amnesty, truth, and reconciliation: Reflections on the South African amnesty process
by Slye, Ronald C.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Truth v. justice: The morality of truth commissions, eds. Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson, 170-188. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. The granting of amnesty by a truth commission to individuals in response to their culpability in past human rights violations...
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Restorative justice in New Zealand: A model for U.S. criminal justice.
by Schmid, Donald J
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Wellington, New Zealand. Through the Ian Axford Fellowships in Public Policy – administered by The Commonwealth Fund – Donald J. Schmid, an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, traveled to New Zealand to research its restorative justice...
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Truth commissions and the provision of truth, justice, and reconciliation.
by Rotberg, Robert I.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Truth v. justice: The morality of truth commissions, eds. Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson, 3-21. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Rotberg begins his chapter and the book with the observation that societies seeking to move from a repressive and brutal past to a...
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The uses of truth commissions: Lessons for the world
by Ntsebeza, Dumisa B
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Truth v. justice: The morality of truth commissions, eds. Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson, 158-169. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Ntsebeza argues in this essay that the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) should serve as a model for...
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The introduction of referral orders into the youth justice system: Second interim report.
by Newburn, Tim
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) The introduction of referral orders into the youth justice system: Second interim report. RDS Occasional Paper No. 73. London, UK: Home Office; Research, Development and Statistics Directorate. In the United Kingdom, the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 introduced a...
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The introduction of referral orders into the youth justice system.
by Newburn, Tim
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) RDS Occasional Paper No. 70. London, UK: Home Office; Research, Development and Statistics Directorate. In the United Kingdom, the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 introduced a new primary sentencing disposal – the referral order – for youths pleading...
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Solomon Islands conflict: Demands for historical rectification and restorative justice.
by Naitoro, John Houainamo
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Pacific Updates on Solomon Islands, Fiji and Vanuatu. Hosted by the National Centre for Development Studies, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management, Australian National University. In this paper, Naitoro examines an ethnic conflict in the Solomon...
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