“Critical Assessment of Community Service and Mediation for Juvenile Offenders in Brussels: A Discussion of the Project BAS!”
by Eliaerts, Christian
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) In Restorative Justice for Juveniles: Potentialities, Risks and Problems, Lode Walgrave, ed., Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press. The implementation of community service (CS) and especially victim-offender mediation raises numerous questions in Brussels (and Belgium)....
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Procedural Justice in Two Contexts: Testing the Fairness of Diversionary Conferencing for Intoxicated Drivers
by Barnes, Geoffrey
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park. Fairness is a central issue in our scientific understanding of the law and criminal behavior. The fairness of legal proceedings has long been of interest in a variety of disciplines, but only recently have theory and...
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“Prison overcrowding and privatization: Models and opportunities”
by Chi, Keon S
June 4, 2015
Source: (1989) The Journal of State Government 62 (March/April): 70-76. In response to prison overcrowding, some state and local governments have turned to privatization of prisons as one means to incarcerate and manage offenders. Chi summarizes a variety of models involving some degree of...
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“Primary restorative justice practices.”
by McCold, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In Restorative justice for juveniles: Conferencing, mediation and circles, ed. Allison Morris and Gabrielle Maxwell, 41-58. With a foreword by DJ Carruthers. Oxford: Hart Publishing. According to McCold, restorative justice processes should involve victims and offenders in...
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Preventing offending by young people
by Warner, Lord
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Prison Service Journal (May): 21-23. Chairman of the Youth Justice Board in the United Kingdom, Lord Warner reports on its role in helping to reduce crime by young people. The Board’s main functions are specified in the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act: monitoring the...
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“Preventing Crime: The Promising Road Ahead.”
by Stephens, Gene.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Futurist 33(9): 29ff. Probes the crime-prevention programs of the United States government. Assessment on the programs against crime which are effective; Optimism that crime can be reduced or eliminated in the future; Analysis on the community-oriented policy for crime...
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“A Preliminary Study of a Large Victim/Offender Reconciliation Program.”
by David Shichor, S E
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Federal Probation, Sept. 96, vol. 60 (3): 30-. The authors offer a preliminary evaluation of the victim-offender reconciliation programs in Orange County, CA. Criminal Justice system’s use of ‘restorative justice’; High participation rate in the program by...
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Practice standards for mediators and the management of mediation services.
by Mediation UK
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Bristol, United Kingdom: Mediation UK. This document updates and replaces a similar set of standards published by Mediation UK in 1993. Some of the key purposes of the standards include improvement of mediation services, promotion of national criteria for assessing and...
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“Positive youth development, restorative justice, and the crisis of abandoned youth.”
by Polk, Kenneth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) In Restorative community justice: Repairing harm and transforming communities, ed. Gordon Bazemore and Mara Schiff, 265-286. With an introduction by Gordon Bazemore and Mara Schiff. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing Co. Using Australia as an example, Polk considers the...
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“Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of Community Mediation in the United States.”
by Merry, S E
June 4, 2015
Source: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Contributors to the volume explore the history and experience of the San Francisco program and compare it to other versions of popular justice in the United States, Europe, and the Third World. They discuss the multiple and contested meanings of...
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The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the post-apartheid state.
by Wilson, Richard A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Using ethnographic perspectives and research, Wilson examines the status and impact of a restorative justice approach – as seen, for example, in the language and processes of the Truth and...
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“Political initiatives in response to serious violent crime.” Paper presented at the Making Crime Pay conference. Wellington, New Zealand, June 1994.
by Caphill, Graham
June 4, 2015
Source: (1994) Stimulus 2 (August): 63-68. How should legislators respond to violent crime? Capill begins to answer this question by examining what the Bible teaches concerning murder and other violent crime. Biblical elements considered include the introduction of death into human existence...
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“Policy developments and the concept of restorative justice through mediation. “
by Kemény, Siri Ilona
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, 83-97. With an introduction by Tony Peters. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press. Kemeny notes two different perspectives...
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“Police Opinions on the Deployment of Civilian Youth Development Officers.”
by Mohr, Philip B
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) International Journal of Police Science and Management. 3(1):19 to 24. Two YDOs were employed in 1997 as liaison with police, youths, and appropriate support services in the district. The primary aim was diverting at-risk youths from the juvenile justice system. The study...
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“Police officer orientation and resistance to implementation of community policing.”
by McCold, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology Conference, Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 20-23, 1996, 20p. The research sought to analyze police attitudes and behaviors that might affect the implementation of community policing programs. Prior research has indicated...
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