Restorative policing: South Yorkshire Restorative Justice Programme.
by Widowson, Steph
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Council. Winter(41):10-11. The South Yorkshire Restorative Justice Programme (SYRJP) was developed in 2010 in partnership with the South Yorkshire Criminal Justice Board. Prior to this officers had been working within the constraints...
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Yorkshire’s Remedi — Restorative Justice and Mediation Initiatives.
by Jones, Steve
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Council. Winter(41):8-9. In 1996 Remedi began providing RJ victim-offender mediation in partnership with the South Yorkshire Probation Service for adult cases. With the development of Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) in the late 1990s...
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Evaluation of Sheffield City Council’s Neighbourhood Justice Panels Project.
by Clamp, Kerry Leigh
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Council. Winter(41):7. The Council piloted a scheme and commissioned an evaluation of it in 2009. The evaluation was undertaken during October and November 2009 with objectives of assessing the effectiveness of the CJP project thus...
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Sheffield’s neighbourhood/community justice panel.
by Widowson, Steph
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Council. Winter(41):6. Sheffield’s Community Justice Team have been operating Community Justice panels (aka Neighbourhood Justice Panels) since June 2009. The aim of the panels is to bring offenders and victims together to...
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Restorative justice in Nova Scotia: A partnership of government, schools and communities.
by Editor
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Council. Winter(41):4-5. In its twelfth year, Nova Scotia, on Canada’s Atlantic Coast,hopes to become a ‘restorative province.’ The objective is to make restorative justice the ‘normal’ response to crime...
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Youth Justice Conferences versus Children’s Court: A comparison of time to finalisation.
by Moore, Elizabeth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Crime and Justice Statistics Bureau Brief. Issue Paper no. 74. NSW Bureau of Crime and Statistics Research. The aim of this brief is to compare police-referred YJCs, court referred YJCs and Children’s Court matters on the time to finalisation (i.e., the number of days...
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The use of police cautions and youth justice conferences in NSW in 2010.
by Moore, Elizabeth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Crime and Justice Statistics Bureau Brief. Issue Paper no. 73. NSW Bureau of Crime and Statistics Research. Overall, the results were in the expected direction when the hierarchy of sanctions under the YOA are considered (i.e. from police caution to YJC to proven court...
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Mourning in America: Racial trauma and the democratic work of mourning.
by McIvor, David Wallace
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Dissertation. Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Political Science. Graduate School of Duke University. This dissertation argues for a version of democratic theory, and institutions of democratic practice, that would call for and help to nurture a form of civic identity—...
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The power of resistance: Women’s organizations and institutionalized restorative justice in Nova Scotia.
by Nelund, Amanda
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Thesis. Degree of Master of Arts in Criminology. Saint Mary’s University. Halifax, Nova Scotia. This thesis interrogates a case of feminist engagement with the state in order to grapple with the research question: where do women’s organizations fit in contemporary...
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Personal and political reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda.
by Kohen, Ari
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Social Justice Research. 24(1):85-106. The majority of scholarly research on Rwanda currently focuses on determining the causes of and participation in the genocide. In this paper, we explore a variety of questions that have come to the forefront in post-genocide Rwanda. In...
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No longer a child: Juvenile incarceration in America.
by Bohland, Charlyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Capital University Law Review. 39(1):193-229. The first section of this note provides a brief history of the juvenile justice system including its creation, changes since its inception, and the modem practices of the juvenile court. This section discusses the original and modem...
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Making peace on the island of love: An ethnographic exploration of peacebuilding in Cyprus.
by Modenos, Lisa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Dissertation. Doctor of Philosophy. University of Massachusetts Amherst. This is a dissertation that examines peace. In particular this dissertation will explore the paradox of peace on the island of Cyprus, a paradox that has continued to challenge both international and local...
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Moving beyond boundaries: Restorative justice and reconciliation as complementary paths of peacemaking.
by Hollon, Ryan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Review and Expositor. 104(3):579-587. Drawing on the social gospel’s implications for how we make peace and pursue justice in America today, this article examines the relationship between reconciliation and grassroots approaches to restorative justice. With a focus on...
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Manic reparation: A psychoanalytic discussion of apology and residential schooling in Canada.
by Greenberg, Barbara
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Bulletin for the Study of Religion. 39(1):7-12. My work asks whether apologies are effective in their attempt to make amends for past injustices, or are they examples of what Klein calls “manic repara-tion”? For Klein, the mending of a relationship must be preceded...
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Making sense of violence: A qualitative study of men who have been violent towards female partners.
by Wilkins, Christine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Dissertation. Doctor of Philosophy. New York University School of Social Work. This qualitative study centers on men who have been violent towards female partners, and explores their understanding and meaning making of their behavior. The sample was selected from among three...
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