Restorative Justice Outside the Criminal Justice System: How Far Have We Come?
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Paper to Second Conference of the European Forum for Victim/Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice. Oostende, Belgium, 10-12 October 2002. Many people have commented on the difficulty of defining restorative justice. It is like a growing child: as soon as its parents have...
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Restorative justice and Prison Industry: Proposed Waqf-Based Model for creation of victim’s fund.
by Yaacob, Hakimah
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Restorative Justice Online The Government spends more than RM30 per day for every prisoner and as to date, we have 40,000 prisoners around Malaysia. Even though the cost incurred is extremely high (RM511,100,000 annually), the crime rate continues to rise. The problem with the...
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Communities of restoration –Thinking Biblically, speaking secularly.
by Workman, Kim
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Restorative Justice Online For more than five years, Prison Fellowship New Zealand has run a 60 bed faith based unit at Rimutaka Prison, near Wellington. He Korowai Whakapono (HWK) is a 60 bed unit based at run in a partnership agreement between Prison Fellowship NZ (who provide...
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Sycamore Tree: Victim awareness and restorative justice.
by Mason, Anne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Consortium. Spring. p. 4 Prison Fellowship International (PFI) is the world’s largest and most extensive criminal justice ministry – a global association of over 100 national Prison Fellowship organisations. PFI’s...
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Restorative justice in Colombia.
by Mahan, Sue
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Restorative Justice Online This paper discusses the development and use of conciliation as alternative to court processes in...
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Deepening restorative practice in your organization.
by Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Restorative Justice Online Many people have different ideas as to what a restorative programme should be like. There are those who give priority to repairing harm through some form of reparation, while others put the victim/offender dialogue in first place. Some regard it not as...
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Restorative and Healing Justice in Aotearoa – a way forward for schools.
by Bowen, Helen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) New Zealand Edmund Rice Network Conference April 2008 Oamaru This paper is an attempt to encourage schools to examine their culture of conflict; and to seek out inspired leaders from school communities to develop principled models of restorative...
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Through the glass.
by Moroney, Shannon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Toronto: Doubleday Canada. In this intimate and gripping journey into prisons, courtrooms and the human heart, Shannon reveals the far-reaching impact of Jason’s crimes and the agonizing choices faced by the loved ones of offenders. In so doing, she addresses the implicit...
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Circle in the square: Building community and repairing harm in school.
by Riestenberg, Nancy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) St. Paul, Minnesota: Living Justice Press. This book describes how these school have been applying restorative principles. Because Circles are so adaptable not only to repairing harm but even more to preventing it, I will also describe the elements of the Circle process and its...
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Christian approaches to the restorative justice movement: observations on scripture and praxis.
by Sarre, Rick
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Contemporary Justice Review. 14(3):345-355. The restorative justice movement provides both faith-based and secular justice advocates with much common ground for dialog. This review of the roots of this dialog, from the perspective of both historical and contemporary...
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A faithful compass: rethinking the term restorative justice to find clarity.
by Vaandering, Dorothy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Contemporary Justice Review. 14(3):307-328. In the field of restorative justice (RJ) there is regular debate regarding the terms restorative and justice. In spite of efforts to come to a common vision, this ongoing discussion illustrates how theoretical and practical...
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Deepening democracy through community dispute resolution: problems and prospects in South Africa and Chile.
by Gordon, Diana R.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Contemporary Justice Review. 14(3):291-305. Post-apartheid South Africa and post-Pinochet Chile have taken significant steps to democratize justice. This article acknowledges conventional reforms of both countries’ criminal justice systems but focuses primarily on case...
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Gendered violence and restorative justice: the views of New Zealand Opinion Leaders.
by Proietti-Scifoni, Gitana
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Contemporary Justice Review. 14(3):269-290. Although New Zealand has been a pioneer in the development and expansion of restorative justice in the adult and youth criminal justice systems, it has taken a more cautious approach to using restorative justice in adult cases of...
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The MEREPS-project in Germany.
by Hartmann, Arthur
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Newsletter of the European Forum for Restorative Justice. 12(3)6-8. Our main task in the MEREPS project were: to implement a model project in the prison of Bremen, to evaluate this model project, and to make a survey among the employees of prisons in Germany regarding their...
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Somewhere over the rainbow: The MEREPS results in Hungary.
by Barabas, Tunde
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Newsletter of the European Forum for Restorative Justice. 12(3):5-6. The primary purpose of the study was to assess the ability and willingness of offenders to participate in mediation after sentencing, with special regard to the internal and external factors supporting and...
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