Obtaining compensation for survivors of victims of international crime
by Myers, Roslyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) The Crime Victims Report 5 (November/December): 65-66, 71-73. Until the early twentieth century, the United States granted blanket immunity to foreign nations so that they could not be sued in U.S. courts. That, however, began to change in the 1920s and continues to change as...
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From violence without plenty to plenty without violence.
by Morgenthau, Ruth S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Keynote address presented to the Dag Hammarskjold Seminar, Peace Building and Conflict Transformation Programme, Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation. Kitwe, Zambia, 18 September. In this address, Morgenthau considers the significance of resources in conflicts and building peace in...
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The hope for healing: What can truth commissions do?
by Minow, Martha
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Truth v. justice: The morality of truth commissions, eds. Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson, 235-260. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. In this chapter Minow reflects on the degree to which collective responses to mass violence can redress and help to heal the...
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Police youth diversion. Final report.
by Maxwell, Gabrielle
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Prepared for the New Zealand Police, Ministry of Justice. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington, The Crime and Justice Research Centre. A prominent feature of the New Zealand youth justice system is the use of diversionary procedures. This report presents...
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Doing history, doing justice: The narrative of the historian and of the truth commission.
by Maier, Charles S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Truth v. justice: The morality of truth commissions, eds. Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson, 261-278. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Maier investigates the intersection of the roles of the historian and truth commissions or formal court proceedings in the...
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Trials, commissions, and investigating committees: The elusive search for norms of due process
by Levinson, Sanford
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Truth v. justice: The morality of truth commissions, eds. Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson, 211-234. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Certain critiques of truth commissions contain arguments that such commissions deviate from regularized formal procedures of...
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Moral ambitions within and beyond political constraints
by Kiss, Elizabeth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Truth v. justice: The morality of truth commissions, eds. Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson, 68-98. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. In this study, Kiss examines issues relating to truth, reconciliation, accountability, justice, restorative justice, and...
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“New strategies to address youth offending: The national evaluation of the pilot youth offending teams.”
by Holdaway, Simon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) RDS Occasional Paper No. 69. London, UK: Home Office; Research, Development and Statistics Directorate. In the late 1990s, the Home Office in the United Kingdom established a number of pilot, youth offending teams to explore a new approach to youth offending. Based on the Crime...
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The moral foundations of truth commissions.
by Gutmann, Amy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Truth v. justice: The morality of truth commissions, eds. Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson, 22-44. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Assuming that truth commissions sacrifice the pursuit of justice for the sake of other social purposes, Gutmann and Thompson...
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Closure is a choice, not a gift.
by Guillot, Aline
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) The Crime Victims Report 5 (November/December): 70. Writing from her own experience as a victim of violent crime, Guillot reflects on crime and its aftermath. She traces aspects of the criminal justice process that resulted from the crime and the trial of the perpetrator. She...
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Amnesty’s justice
by Greenawalt, Kent
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Truth v. justice: The morality of truth commissions, eds. Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson, 189-210. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Greenawalt asks a fundamental question in the introduction to his essay. Is it morally acceptable to condition the mandate of a...
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Why restorative justice? Repairing the harm caused by crime
by Graef, Roger
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Edited and additional material by Marian Liebmann. London, UK: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In this book Roger Graef presents an introduction to restorative justice especially for the general public. His study begins with the need for change. As he puts it, the current...
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Rehabilitative strategies for preventing re-offending.
by Forensic and Applied Psychology Research Group, André
June 4, 2015
Source: Adelaide, South Australia: University of South Australia. Can rehabilitation programs be effective in preventing re-offending? For some years, based on certain research, many concluded that nothing worked appreciably in reducing recidivism. However, according to the authors of this...
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Constructing community: Restorative justice in theory and practice.
by Dzur, Albert W
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Paper presented Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. San Francisco, California, 30 August- 2 September. The authors of the this paper begin by pointing to the rise and significance of restorative justice. They note the importance of community and...
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The moral foundations of the South African TRC: Truth as acknowledgment and justice as recognition.
by du Toit, André
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Truth v. justice: The morality of truth commissions, eds. Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson, 122-140. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Truth commissions arise and operate at the intersection of morality and politics. That is, they are political projects, yet...
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