Community Dispute Resolution Centers Program: Two Year.
by New York State Unified Court System, L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1992) Albany, NY: New York State Office of Court Administration. Community Dispute Resolution Centers Program. This report describes the activities and highlights of the New York State Community Dispute Resolution Centers Program during the 2-year period between April 1990 and March...
Read More
Community Dispute Resolution Centers Program Annual Report.
by New York State Unified Court System, L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) New York, NY: New York State Unified Court System, 35p. These report summarizes the activities from April 1992 through March 1995 of New York’s Community Dispute Resolution Centers Program, an alternative to formal court proceedings in each of the 62 New York counties....
Read More
“Restorative Justice as Participation: Theory, Law, Experience and Research.”
by Netzig, L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) In: B. Galaway and J. Hudson (eds.), Restorative Justice: International Perspectives. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, pp. 241-260. This chapter reviews the development of program activities and restorative law in Germany with a focus on the leading Victim-Offender...
Read More
“Probation Values for the 1990s.”
by Nellis, M.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 34(1):19-44. This paper argues that, in the aftermath of punishment in the community and the managerial culture which ensued, a fundamental reconceptualization of probation values is needed. Although the most drastic proposals for the...
Read More
“Defusing Violence in South Africa: The Move to Establish Community Dispute Resolution Centers.”
by National Institute for Dispute Resolution., C F D
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) Forum (Winter):23-27. This interview with the acting director of South Africa’s Community Dispute Resolution Trust at the Center for Applied Legal Studies of the University of the Witwatersrand focuses on the nature and operation of community dispute resolution centers in...
Read More
Challenges to the Injustice of the Criminal Justice System: A Christian Call to Responsibility.
by National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA., C F D
June 4, 2015
Source: (1979) A policy statement adopted November 10th, 34p. This policy statement calls on Christians to express a concern about injustices within the criminal justice system in the United States and for those who are victimized by them, and to seek changes that will produce and protect a...
Read More
“Rehabilitating Community Service: Toward Restorative Service Sanctions in a Balanced Justice System.”
by Bazemore, Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (1994) Federal Probation 58(1):24-35. This essay argues that community service sanctions must be reexamined in the context of a new “Balanced Approach” mission for probation and community corrections The restorative justice paradigm provides an alternative philosophical...
Read More
Forgiveness and Mercy.
by J. Hampton, C F D
June 4, 2015
Source: (1988) New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 194p. This book explores the degree to which certain moral and legal doctrines are rooted in specific passions that are then institutionalized in the form of criminal law. It focuses on the virtues of forgiveness and mercy, and in...
Read More
“Punishment and Retribution: An Attempt to Delimit Their Scope in New Testament Thought.” New Perspectives on Crime and Justice (Issue #10).
by Moule, C F D
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) Akron, PA: Mennonite Central Committee Office of Criminal Justice, July, 21p. Professor Moule distinguishes between the way the term punishment is used in the New Testament and the way the term is used generally. He claims that suffering inflicted for disciplinary and deterrent...
Read More
A Practical Path to Transformative Justice.
by Morris, Ruth
June 4, 2015
Source: (1994) Toronto, CAN: Rittenhouse. Ruth Morris presents a plan for changing the Ontario justice system into a restorative process through the creation of Transformative Justice Courts in Ontario. The problems with the current system are that it is expensive, unjust, immoral, and is a...
Read More
“Not Enough!”
by Morris, Ruth
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Mediation Quarterly 12: 285-291. This review of two books with a radical vision of justice: ZehrÃÂs Changing Lenses (1990) and WrightÃÂs Justice for Victims and Offenders (1991). After comparing and contrasting the visions of restorative justice presented by each, the...
Read More
Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists.
by Morris, M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1976) Syracuse, NY: Prison Research Education Action Project, 207p. This handbook is written for those who feel it is time to say “no” to prisons as a long range goal, and to provide practical steps toward achieving the goal of prison abolition. This booklet includes...
Read More
“Giving Victims a Voice: A New Zealand Experiment.”
by Morris, Allison
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 32(4):304-321. More weight is now being given in many criminal justice systems to the needs and wishes of victims. Few jurisdictions, however, have gone as far as the recently introduced system of youth justice in New Zealand. There, a...
Read More
“Juvenile Justice in New Zealand: A New Paradigm.”
by Maxwell, Gabrielle
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) Australia & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 26(March):72-90. A review describes the system of juvenile justice adopted in New Zealand under the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989. The act’s objectives and principles are discussed. The principal...
Read More
“Concluding Thoughts.”
by Morris, Allison
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) In: J. Hudson, et al. (eds.), Family Group Conferences: Perspectives on Policy and Practice. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, pp. 221-234. Family group conferences are being increasingly adopted as preferred decision-making forum for young offenders and young people in need...
Read More