“The Relevance of Customary Criminal Justice System in the Criminal Justice Administration of Nigeria.”
by Akakwam, Philip Anaekperechi
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) LL.M.. Dissertation, Queen’s University at Kingston(Canada). This thesis discusses the relevance of some of the ideals of customary criminal law in the criminal justice administration of Nigeria. It highlights the shortcomings of the inherited criminal justice system and...
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“Religion and community corrections”
by Skotnicki, Andrew
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) The IARCA Journal 6 (June): 10-12. Skotnicki notes the widespread perspective that prisons have failed and that alternatives to prison are necessary. In this context, many argue for community corrections as a better, more effective response to crime than penal incarceration. Yet...
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The Relationship Between Moral Development and Corrective Justice (Punishment, Restitution)
by Kornelussen, Malena Matilda
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Ph.D. Dissertation, ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY (NEW YORK). 226 pp. Kohlberg’s theory of moral development has not fully described how moral stage would relate to different forms of corrective justice–punitive/retributive, restorative/restitutive. This relationship...
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“Reintegrative shaming and restorative justice: Interchangeable, complementary or different?”
by Walgrave, Lode
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 4 (4): 67-85. Walgrave and Aertsen note that Braithwaite indicated in early 1996 that he might replace the term “reintegrative shaming” with “restorative shaming.” This leads Walgrave and Aertsen to ask...
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“Rehabilitation, retribution and restorative justice: Alternative conceptions of juvenile justice.”
by Feld, Barry C
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) In Restorative juvenile justice: Repairing the harm of youth crime, ed. Gordon Bazemore and Lode Walgrave, 17-44. With an introduction by Gordon Bazemore and Lode Walgrave. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press. Feld claims that juvenile justice in the United States has changed...
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“Refugee return in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Coexistence before reconciliation.”
by Hart, Barry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In Reconciliation, Justice, and Coexistence: Theory & Practice, ed. Mohammed Abu-Nimer, pp. 291-310. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. In the first half of the 1990s devastating violence among ethnic and religious groups afflicted much of ex-Yugoslavia, especially Bosnia...
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“Re-forming Juvenile Justice: The New Zealand Experiment.”
by Morris, Allison
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Prison Journal. 77(2):125-134. The reforms emphasized the involvement of juvenile offenders, families, and victims in deciding how best to handle each situation. The family group conference replaced or supplemented the Youth Court as the main decision-making forum in most of the...
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“Reforming Criminal Justice: The Potential of Restorative Justice.”
by Morris, Allison
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In, Heather Strang and John Braithwaite, eds., Restorative Justice: Philosophy and Practice. Dartmouth: Ashgate. Pp. 11-31. Morris and Young contrast the conventional criminal justice system with the possibilities of a restorative justice system. This comparison, however, goes...
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Reflections on the future of restorative justice for juveniles.
by Walgrave, Lode
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) In Restorative juvenile justice: Repairing the harm of youth crime, ed. Gordon Bazemore and Lode Walgrave, 359-99. With an introduction by Gordon Bazemore and Lode Walgrave. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press. The authors recognize that, worldwide, restorative justice is in...
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“Reducing repeat victimisation of domestic violence: The NDV Project.”
by Prior, Bill
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Reducing Criminality: Partnerships and Best Practice conference. Perth, 31 July – 1 August 2000. Canberra, Australia: Australian Institute of Criminology. The NDV Project is a partnership between the crime prevention police unit in South Australia...
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“Reducing prison admissions: The potential of intermediate sanctions.”
by Petersilia, Joan
June 4, 2015
Source: (1989) The Journal of State Government 62 (March/April): 65-69. Petersilia and Turner report in this article on their nationwide survey of intermediate-sanction programs in the United States. Intermediate sanctions are community-based programs intended to be tougher than probation but...
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“Recreative penal justice: Contrasting retributive and recreative cosmovisions.”
by Beristain, Antonio
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) In Support for crime victims in a comparative perspective, ed. Ezzat Fattah and Tony Peters, 111-125. 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. With...
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Reconsidering Restorative Justice: The Corruption of Benevolence Revisited?
by Fulton, Betsy
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Crime and Delinquency 45 (January): 3-27. Reprinted in Restorative Justice. Declan Roche (2003), ed. Pp. 111-135. The International Library of Essays in Law & Legal Theory, Second Series. Aldershot, Hants, England: Dartmouth/Ashgate. Observing the increasing popularity of...
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Reconciliation.
by Brookes, Derek
June 4, 2015
Source: Washington: Prison Fellowship International. Brookes contends that Christians are called by God to forgive, and to forgive in order to be reconciled to the person who is forgiven. He explores this by discussing a number of theological and relational themes and realities: the...
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“Recognizing bias is important focus for RJ dialogue practitioners.”
by Ratner, Irene.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) VOMA Connections no. 8 (Winter): 1, 11. Ratner emphasizes the need for people who oversee restorative justice processes to avoid personal judgments, preconceptions, and even bias. A practitioner in a victim-offender reconciliation program in Tennessee, Ratner has firsthand...
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