Victim-Offender Mediation in the Juvenile Justice System
by Hughes, S
June 4, 2015
Source: (1990) Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 16p. This survey explores the use of victim-offender mediation in U.S. juvenile court systems. Data were gathered from representatives of 240 organizations known to use restitution or mediation....
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Mediation and Lawyers: The Pacific way: A View from Hawaii
by Adler, P. S
June 4, 2015
Source: (1983) Hawaii Bar Journal 18(1):37-52. This paper describes Hawaii’s experiences with neighborhood justice centers, particularly in environmental and divorce disputes, mediation in China and Japan, and attorney’s involvement with mediation processes. The paper discusses how...
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Victims, Offenders, and Alternative Sanctions
by Hudson, Joe
June 4, 2015
Source: (1980) Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 204p. The third national restitution and community service symposium, held in 1979, provided a forum for exploration of research on monetary restitution and community service sanctions for both adult and juvenile offenders. This volume contains...
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Financial Restitution: Toward an Evaluable Program Model
by Hudson, Joe
June 4, 2015
Source: (1989) Canadian Journal of Criminology 31(1):1-18. This review of 27 restitution program evaluations reports the following findings: (1) Restitution programs established to divert offenders from incarceration usually do not fulfill this mission; (2) Residential restitution programs...
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Restitution Program Models with Adult Offenders
by Hudson, Joe
June 4, 2015
Source: (1990) In: B. Galaway and J. Hudson (eds.), Criminal Justice, Restitution, and Reconciliation. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, pp. 165-175. A restitution program model is developed based on analysis of 11 operating restitution programs serving adult offenders. Possible measures of...
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Community Service: Toward Program Definition
by Hudson, Joe
June 4, 2015
Source: (1990) Federal Probation 54(2):3-9. A program model is presented based on detailed study of 14 community service programs in the U.S. Two types of programs were identified. One group, geared primarily to felony offenders, combined community service with other sanctions and services,...
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Family Group Conferences: Perspectives on Policy and Practice
by Hudson, Joe
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, 240p. An anthology of 14 papers review the principles and practices of family group conferences (FGCs) in the juvenile justice and child protection systems of several nations. Topics include: the origin and development of family group...
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Introduction [to Family Group Conferences]
by Hudson, Joe
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. 1-16. The first statutory formulation of the family group conferences (FGCs) model was in New Zealand in 1989. However, participatory processes...
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A Review of Research Dealing with Views on Financial Restitution
by Hudson, Joe
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. 239-307. Thirty-one studies dealing with views held toward the use of...
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Neighborhood Justice in Capitalist Society: The Expansion of the Informal State
by Hofrichter, R
June 4, 2015
Source: (1987) Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 225p. Following a characterization of contemporary American capitalism, the nature of class conflict, and hegemony in which neighborhood dispute resolution (NDR) is embedded, the author argues that the primarily government-sponsored mechanisms of...
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Diverting Young Offenders from the Formal Justice System
by Heslop, J
June 4, 2015
Source: (1991) In: J. Vernon, S. McKillop (eds.), Preventing Juvenile Crime Conference Proceedings No. 9. Canberra, AUS: Australian Institute of Criminology, pp. 81-87. Two alternatives to institutionalization for juvenile offenders, police cautioning and the juvenile and mediation reparation...
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Justice on the Margin: Can Alternative Justice Be Different?
by Henry, S
June 4, 2015
Source: (1989) Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 28(4):255-271. The way that extreme cases of alternative justice, such as the non-State forms of private justice in co-operatives and how they reproduce capitalist legal control forms, even where co-optation is absent, is examined. Drawing on...
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Critical View of Conferencing
by Bargen, J
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (special issue):100-103. A critique of two new criminal justice initiatives, sentencing circles in Canada and family group conferences in Australia, is presented. Sentencing circles in Canada involve a process whereby community...
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Aboriginal Criminal Justice
by Hazlehurst, K
June 4, 2015
Source: (1988) Phillip Act, AUS: Australian Institute of Criminology, 5p. Aboriginals are overrepresented at every level of the Australian justice system. Compared to non-Aboriginals, they were more frequently convicted of person offenses and less frequently convicted of property offenses....
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Resolving Conflict: Dispute Settlement Mechanisms for Aboriginal Communities and Neighborhoods?
by Hazlehurst, K
June 4, 2015
Source: (1986) San Francisco, CA: Institute for Criminal Justice, 16p. Modern community justice mechanisms or dispute settlement programs can be grafted upon customary or existing Australian Aboriginal methods of handling disputes. The Aboriginal dispute settlement process can have a...
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