Towards the Institutionalization of a New Kind of Justice Professional: The Victim Advocate
by Karmen, A
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Justice Professional. 9(1):1-15. This essay advocates providing all crime victims with advocates, free of charge, through mechanisms that are parallel to the way indigent defendants are provided with legal counsel. Advocates can pressure officials and agencies to be more...
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Victim-Offender Mediation Program (VOMP)
by Kadar, E.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) In: L. Atkinson and S.-A. Gerull (eds.), National Conference on Juvenile Justice. Conference Proceedings No. 22, Canberra, AUS: Australian Institute of Criminology, pp. 425-436. This paper describes the rationale and development of the Victim Offender Mediation Program in...
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Plan for Restoring Justice: Recommendations for Correctional and Sentencing Reform in the State of North Carolina
by Justice Fellowship Task Force
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Justice Fellowship Task Force, 80p. This report is a call for immediate action in correctional and sentencing reform in North Carolina, and it presents an action plan for re-establishing standards of justice for offenders and crime victims. The task...
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Plan for Restoring Justice: Recommendations for Correctional and Sentencing Reform in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
by Justice Fellowship Task Force
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Camp Hill, PA: Pennsylvania Justice Fellowship Task Force, 98p. This report of the Pennsylvania Justice Fellowship Task Force conducted a series of nine public fact-finding hearings, two in-prison roundtable discussions, and sough input from more than 150 experts, and meetings...
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Developing Reparation Plans through Victim-Offender Mediation by New Zealand Probation Officers
by Jervis, B
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) In: B. Galaway and J. Hudson (eds.), Restorative Justice: International Perspectives. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, pp. 417-430. The New Zealand Criminal Justice Act of 1985 introduced the sentence of reparation thus allowing compensation to be paid to victims of offenses....
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What Is All the Fighting About? Privatism and Neighbor Disputes
by Baskin, D. R
June 4, 2015
Source: (1989) Social Justice 16(2):165-187. Data from mediation cases in neighborhood justice centers in Wilmington, Delaware and Delaware County (Pa.) are discussed. The clients of both centers were largely female and nearly half the cases involved property disputes. Other conflicts involved...
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Probation Values for the 1990s: and Beyond?
by James, A. L
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 34(4):326-343. This analysis of the changing values underlying the probation service in Great Britain argues that the Nellis analysis of 1995 did not go far enough and proposes an alternative approach that rests on the concept of relational...
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Community Service Sentences Pose Problems, Show Potential
by Immarigeon, Russ
June 4, 2015
Source: (1986) Journal of the National Prison Project 10: 13-15. A review finds little evidence that, in its brief history, community service sentencing has been used as an alternative to imprisonment. However, recent studies in New York and North Carolina suggest that community service can,...
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Beyond the Fear of Crime: Reconciliation as the Basis for Criminal Justice Policy
by Immarigeon, Russ
June 4, 2015
Source: (1991) In: R. Quinney and H. Pepinsky (eds.), Criminology as Peacemaking . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, pp. 69-80. Rehabilitation has been replaced by retribution as the dominant paradigm for criminal justice intervention in the United States during the last two decades....
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Prison-Based Victim Offender Reconciliation Programs
by Immarigeon, Russ
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) In: B. Galaway and J. Hudson (eds.), Restorative Justice: International Perspectives. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, pp. 463-476. Twenty years after the first victim-offender reconciliation meeting, victim-offender meetings are increasingly being held in prisons. This...
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Family Group Conferences in Canada and the United States: An Overview
by Immarigeon, Russ
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. 167-179. This paper suggests possible uses of New Zealand style family group conferences in Canada and the United States. Applications are...
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Families Know Best
by Immarigeon, Russ
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) State Government News. Lexington, KY: Council of State Governments, October, pp. 22-23. This article describes the family empowerment model of family group conferences as conducted in the Bethlehem Police Project (BPP), an experimental juvenile diversion program. The BPP is a...
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The Process of Mediation in Finland: A Special Reference to the Question ëHow to Get Cases for Mediation?
by Iivari, Juhani
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. 137-148. In this paper the author gives a brief summary of the...
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Community Accountability Conferencing
by Hyndman, M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Trial Report. Queensland, AUS: Department of Education, 45p. This study reports on the use of Community Accountability Conferences, derived from Family Group Conferences (FGCs) of New Zealand, in two Queensland school regions from May 1995-May 1996. It was a way to deal with the...
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Victim-Offender Mediation: A Survey of Program Characteristics and Perceptions of Effectiveness
by Hughes, S
June 4, 2015
Source: (1989) Crime & Delinquency 35(2):217-233. This survey of 240 juvenile justice organizations in the U.S. investigates the characteristics and effectiveness of victim-offender mediation. Mediation programs were most often governed by private/nonprofit organizations and received...
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