Can offenders and victims help each other?
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1994) New Life (Prison Service Chaplaincy. (11): 31-39. Much has been written about the widespread dissatisfaction with the adversarial system of criminal justice and its inability to address the needs of victims, communities and offenders has been extensively documented....
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The victim role, grudge theory, and two dimensions of forgiveness.
by Baumeister, Roy F
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) In Dimensions of forgiveness: Psychological research & theological forgiveness, ed. Everett L. Worthington, Jr., 79-104. With a preface and an introduction by Everett L. Worthington, Jr. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press. The authors consider the nature and effects...
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Victim-offender mediation: Legal and procedural safeguards. Experiments and legislation in some European jurisdictions.
by Groenhuijsen, Marc
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Victim-offender mediation in Europe: Making restorative justice work, ed. The European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice, 69-81. With an introduction by Tony Peters. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press. Many alternative ideas and practices to...
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Victim impact of meeting with young offenders: Two decades of victim offender mediation practice and research.
by Coates, Robert B
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In Restorative justice for juveniles: Conferencing, mediation and circles, ed. Allison Morris and Gabrielle Maxwell, 121-143. With a foreword by DJ Carruthers. Oxford: Hart Publishing. In this chapter the authors review a number of empirical studies to address the impact of...
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Implementing Family Group Conferencing in Saudi Arabia
by Ababtain, Abdulmajeed Abdulrahman
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) A project report presented to the Department of Criminal Justice. California State University, Long Beach, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree master of Science Family Group Conferencing offers a means of dealing with young first-time offenders in a setting...
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The Practical Application of Traditional Aboriginal Healing Practices as A Restorative Justice Process: A Case Study of the Helen Betty Osborne Story
by Griffin, Iris A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) A thesis in partial completion of the degree of Master of Social Work, University of Manitoba This qualitative case study explores the application of traditional Aboriginal healing practices as a restorative justice process using the Helen Betty osborne case as an example....
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Victim empathy training: General issues and a treatment outcome study with female offenders
by Bell, Natalie
June 4, 2015
Source: Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University. Photocopied. Empathy training involves working with offenders to increase their perception of a victim’s experience of crime. Bell explores the nature of empathy and the reasons for studying empathy with offenders. Further discussion...
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Victim Assistance Programs – An Overview
by Schneider, A. L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1981) Perspectives on Crime Victims, pp. 364-373, 1981, Burt Galaway and Joe Hudson, ed. St. Louis: CV Mosby. Company. Although most types of victim programs aim at providing a variety of services, the programs can usually be identified in relation to the emphasis they place on...
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Victim-offender negotiations: an exploratory study on different damage types and compensation
by Carriere, R. M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) International Review of Victimology 5(3/4): 221-234. An exploratory study of victim satisfaction with victim-offender negotiations drew on a sample of 242 students attending the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Subjects completed questionnaires after imagining themselves...
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Victims, Offenders, and Their Families: selecting a model for Family Group Conferences
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Paper presented for Séminaire Médiation: 3ème Recontre Internationale. Oñati, Spain. June 6-7. This paper first considers the desirable features of an ideal system of responding to crime. Victim/offender mediation has been developed in New Zealand, influences by the...
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Victims Meet Offenders in an English Urban Community
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 20(1 & 2): 245-256. Much has been written about the widespread dissatisfaction with the adversarial system of criminal justice and its inability to address the needs of victims, communities and offenders has...
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Victims, mediation and criminal justice
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) In Support for crime victims in a comparative perspective, ed. Ezzat Fattah and Tony Peters, 189-203. A collection of essays dedicated to the memory of Prof. Frederic McClintock. With a preface by Ezzat Fattah and Tony Peters. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press. Wright...
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Victims and natural rights
by Mackay, Robert
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) In Support for crime victims in a comparative perspective, ed. Ezzat Fattah and Tony Peters, 127-136. A collection of essays dedicated to the memory of Prof. Frederic McClintock. With a preface by Ezzat Fattah and Tony Peters. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press. Mackay...
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Restorative Justice- Variations on a Theme
by McCold, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) IN, Lode Walgrave, ed. Restorative Justice For Juveniles: Potentialities, Risks, and Problems. Leuven: Leuven University Press. pp. 19-53. This paper reports on an attempt to develop a consensual definition of restorative justice using a modified Delphi technique. The effort...
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Values and restorative justice in schools
by Braithwaite, Valerie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Restorative justice: Philosophy to practice, ed. Heather Strang and John Braithwaite, 121-144. Burlington, Vermont, U.S.: Ashgate Publishing Company. In this chapter, Valerie Braithwaite looks at school bullying and restorative justice practices – particularly the...
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