Key Policy Decisions in Implementing Family Group Conferences: Observations Drawn from the New Zealand Model
by Cole, E
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) In: M. Hardin (ed.), Family Group Conferences in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases: Learning from the Experience of New Zealand. Washington, DC: ABA Center on Children and the Law. American Bar Association, pp. 121-152. The author identifies questions which need to be answered by...
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An Empirical Assessment
by Coates, Robert B
June 4, 2015
Source: (1989) In: M. Wright and B. Galaway (eds.), Mediation and Criminal Justice. London, UK: Sage, pp. 251-263. This chapter reviews the lessons learned from the victim/offender reconciliation Programs (VORPs) as practiced in the United States to begin to accumulate a knowledge base useful...
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Victim-Offender Reconciliation Programs in North America: An Assessment
by Coates, Robert B
June 4, 2015
Source: (1990) In: B. Galaway and J. Hudson (eds.), Criminal Justice, Restitution, and Reconciliation. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, pp. 125-134. A review of the Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) concept originated in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1974 and was transported to the...
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Alternatives to the Criminal Court System
by Clifford, W
June 4, 2015
Source: (1982) In: R. Tomasic and M.M. Feeley (eds.), Neighborhood Justice: Assessment of an Emerging Idea. New York, NY: Longman Inc, pp. 203-214 As informal social control mechanisms crumble, it is inevitable that formal laws and official social control institutions will assume a heavier...
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Crime and Community: Issues and Directions in Aboriginal Justice
by Clark, S
June 4, 2015
Source: (1992) Canadian Journal of Criminology 34(3-4):513-516. The broad question of aboriginal justice is important on the national agenda. This summary of a special edition of the Journal suggests that we are leaving individual aboriginal communities out of the policy debate, especially...
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Analysis of Oklahoma Department of Corrections Victim-Offender Mediation Program, March 1984: August 1985
by Clark, B
June 4, 2015
Source: (1985) Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Planning and Research. In 1983 the Oklahoma State Legislature passed the Non-Violent Intermediate Offender and 120 Day Judicial Review Acts that required the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to develop treatment plans for...
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Restorative Justice Principles
by Claassen, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) VORP News, Clovis, California, July-November, 14p In a series of five articles, Claassen presents the 11 principles of restorative justice. According to the author, restorative justice primarily focuses on people, not procedures; crime is wrong; official actions should be...
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Restorative Justice Principles and Evaluation Continuums
by Claassen, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Paper presented at National Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution, Fresno Pacific College, May, 6p The author presents the eleven principles of restorative justice and a 38 item measurement “yardstick” to measure restorative justice, presented as a 5 point...
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Satisfying Justice. Safe Community Options that Attempt to Repair Harm from Crime and Reduce the Use or Length of Imprisonment
by Church Council on Justice and Corrections
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Ottawa, CAN: Church Council on Justice and Corrections, July, 194p. This book presents credible alternatives to prison and why there aren’t more. What Canadians want and need is “satisfying justice”: a response to crime that takes victims seriously and helps...
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Reconciliation Procedures and Rationale
by Chupp, M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1989) In: M. Wright and B. Galaway (eds.), Mediation and Criminal Justice: Victims, Offenders and Community. London, UK: Sage Publications, pp. 56-68. This chapter describes the victim/offender reconciliation process and provides a brief rationale for each program procedure based upon...
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Conflict as Property
by Christie, N
June 4, 2015
Source: (1977) The British Journal of Criminology 17(1):1-14. Conflicts are important elements in society Social systems should be organized so that conflicts are nurtured and made visible and so that professionals do not monopolize the handling of conflict. In particular, crime victims have...
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Limits to Pain
by Christie, N
June 4, 2015
Source: (1981) Oxford, UK: Martin Robertson, 123p. Imposing punishment within the institution of law means inflicting pain, intended as pain. This is an activity which often comes in conflict with values such as forgiveness. To reconcile the two types of response, attempts are sometimes made...
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Crime, Pain and Death
by Christie, N
June 4, 2015
Source: (1984) New Perspectives on Crime and Justice (Issue #1). Akron, PA: Mennonite Central Committee Office of Criminal Justice, February, 14p. This article discusses Christie’s conflicts as property idea and his book Limits to Pain to question deterrence theory and punishment and...
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The Global Village
by Christie, N
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 29(2):195-199 This is the plenary address to the Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology 1996. Christie suggests that the idea of village life exists within our major urban centers. Those living in the...
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The New Juvenile Penal Procedure Code and the Reparation-Reconciliation Process in Italy: A Chance for a Possible Change
by Centomani, P
June 4, 2015
Source: (1992) In: H. Messmer and H.-U. Otto (eds.), Restorative Justice on Trial: Pitfalls and Potentials of Victim-Offender Mediation: International Research Perspectives. Dordrecht, NETH: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 355-366. The new juvenile penal procedure code sets forth the...
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