Living without enemies:Being present in the midst of violence.
by Wells, Samuel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. With senseless violence occurring throughout society, people are suffering and communities are groaning. Fear and not knowing where to begin hold many back from doing anything. But is “doing something” really what is most...
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Taking restorative justice to schools: A doorway to discipline.
by Holthman, Jeannette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Allen, TX: Del Hayes Press. A “guide” is precisely that, a template for you to play with, add to and remove elements. It provides you with the flexibility to produce optimum results customized to your particular school environment. I believe that educators have the...
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The toughest beat: Politics, punishment, and the prison officers union in California.
by Page, Joshua
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) New York: Oxford University Press. My thesis is that the prison boom and related developments in the second half of the twentieth century produce the California Correctional Peace Officers Association — or rather, created a fertile environment that facilitated the...
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Healing after a student suicide: Restorative circles at the University of Vermont.
by Wachtel, Joshua
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) REstorative Practices E-Forum. 16 February 2011. I had met Humble a week before this incident — which investigators ruled a suicide — when I visited the University of Vermont to meet with a group of residence directors — RDs (professional university staff)...
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Building campus community: Restorative practices in residential life.
by Wachtel, Joshua
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Bethlehem, PA: International Institute of Restorative Practices. University of Vermont (UVM) director of residential life Stacey Miller, a student affairs practitioner for more than 17 years, spent much of her career looking for a “magic potion†that would enable...
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Restorative justice in the classroom: Necessary roles of cooperative context, constructive conflict, and civic values.
by Johnson, David W.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. 5(1):4-28. To ensure that restorative justice is effective, a cooperative context must be developed, future conflicts must be managed constructively, and relevant parties need to adopt civic values. The theory underlying the creation...
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Resolution of conflicts involving prisoners: Handbook on the applicability of mediation and restorative justice in prisons.
by Fellegi, Borbala
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Written in the framework of the project entitled “Mediation and Restorative Justice in Prison Settings,” no. JLS/2007/JPEN015-30-CE-0267156/00-39, financed by the Criminal Justice Programme 2008, European Commission, DG Justice, Freedom and Security. Budapest:...
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‘Restorative justice for veterans: the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department’s Community of Veterans Engaged in Restoration (COVER).
by Schwartz, Sunny
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Washington University Journal of Law and Policy. 36:47-63. In 2008, for the first time in history, more than one in every one hundred adults in America was in jail or prison. (1) Hundreds of thousands of formerly incarcerated people reenter communities each year and, for many,...
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Explaining continuity and changes in offending behavior after a restorative justice conference.
by Hayes, Hennessey
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Current Issues in Criminal Justice. 23(2): 127-143. Over the past two decades, research has produced inconsistent results regarding the crime prevention potential of restorative justice conferencing for young offenders. Some comparative research has suggested that restorative...
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Fractured freedom: State discourses about crime in South Africa, 1976-2004.
by Super, Gail
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Dissertation. Doctor of Philosophy. Institute of Law and Society. New York University. This dissertation asks how South Africa’s transition to democracy affected the governments perceptions and treatment of ‘criminals’, and how crime control concerns have...
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Evaluations of apologies: The effects of apology sincerity and acceptance motivation.
by Hatcher, Ida
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Dissertation. Doctor of Psychology. Marshall University. The present study examined the effects of apology sincerity and acceptance motivation on the facilitation of forgiveness of a transgression. Eighty-five undergraduates (26 males, 59 females) were randomly assigned to an...
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Twenty years of restorative justice in New Zealand.
by McElrea, F W M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Web-only article associated with Tikkun. 27(1). New Zealand has run its entire youth justice system in a nonadversarial manner since 1989. It provides the world’s strongest example to date of how a national juvenile system can transition to something incorporating...
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Learning from Rwanda.
by Stanfield John H., II
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Web-only article associated with Tikkun. 27(1). The National Commission coordinates and evaluates these multi-sector restorative justice efforts, feedin g this information into the policy-making circles of the national government. As a result, over the years restorative justice...
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How super is superhero justice?
by Lyubansky, Mikhail
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Web-only article with Tikkun 27(1). We can see some semblance of restorative principles in several existing superheroes. Aquaman’s most recognizable power, for example, is essentially enhanced communication skills—he is able to communicate with the marine...
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After twenty-six Years in prison: Reflections on healing.
by Elster, Jerry
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Web-only article associated with Tikkun 27(1). What the VOEG program did was to put the human quality back in this whole structure. The criminal justice system to me erases the human factor, just as the criminal behavior itself erases the human factor. It’s like when you...
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