Victims and Offenders: Needs and Responsibilities
by Harding, J
June 4, 2015
Source: (1982) NCVO Occasional Paper 2. London, UK: Bedford Square Press/National Council for Voluntary Organizations, 54p. This book traces the history and development of offender restitution. Few would disagree that the victims of crime should be compensated for their loss and that the...
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Reconciling Mediation with Criminal Justice
by Harding, J
June 4, 2015
Source: (1989) London: Sage Publications, pp. 27-43. This chapter describes some of the significant influences which led to the revival of reparative justice in Britain and the development of mediation procedures involving victims and their offenders. The initiatives of the 1980s in Britain...
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Whither Restitutional Justice in England and Wales: A Probation Perspective
by Harding, J
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, pp. 261-270. In the 1980’s a series of mediation and reparation schemes were developed in England by probation services. Recent national probation standards require probation officers be concerned about the impact of the crime on victims...
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Family Group Conferences in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases: Learning from the Experience of New Zealand
by Hardin, M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Washington, DC: ABA Center on Children and the Law, 180p. Family group conferences are a means of involving extended family members and other persons important to troubled families in cases involving proven child abuse and neglect. The purposes of this book are to explain how...
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Implementing and Evaluating Family Group Conferences with Children and Families in Victoria Australia
by Ban, P
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. 140-151. This paper describes the development of care and protection family group conferences in Victoria Australia which began in 1992. The...
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“Victim-Offender Mediation: Japanese and American Comparisons.”
by Haley, John O
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. 105-130. In contrast with American failure, criminal justice in postwar...
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“Confession, Repentance and Absolution.”
by Haley, John O
June 4, 2015
Source: (1989) In: M. Wright and B. Galaway (eds.), Mediation and Criminal Justice: Victims, Offenders and Community. London: Sage Publications, pp. 195-211. This chapter describes Japan’s dual tracked justice system. The formal process is governed by substantive and procedural rules of...
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“Victim-Offender Mediation: Lessons from the Japanese Experience.”
by Haley, John O
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Mediation Quarterly 12(3):233-248. This essay and review describes the critical features of the Japanese restorative justice model, arguing that these features are transferable to both North American and European institutional contexts. In emphasizing offender correction and...
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“Crime Prevention through Restorative Justice: Lessons from Japan.”
by Haley, John O
June 4, 2015
Source: (1994) In: B. Galaway and J. Hudson (eds.), Restorative Justice: International Perspectives. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, pp. 349-372. This essay considers some restorative features of the Japanese criminal justice system. Japan is the only industrialized country, other than...
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Brotts Offer (Victims of Crime).
by Hakansson, M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Stockholm, SWE: National Council for Crime Prevention, 152p. An anthology includes 4 articles on crime victims. Part I describes the scope of the problem, principles and practical solutions. Part 2, by Olof Dahlbeck, reports victims’ opinions of their experiences, based on...
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“Victims and Criminal Justice (Volume 2): Legal Protection, Restitution and Support.”
by Jorg, A H
June 4, 2015
Source: (1991) Criminological Research Reports. Volume 51. Freiburg, GER: Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. The second of 3 volumes presents papers from the VIIth International Symposium on Victimology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1991. This volume includes 28...
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“Protecting Communities: The Public Safety Role in a Restorative Juvenile Justice.”
by Guarino-Ghezzi, Susan
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology Conference, Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 20-23, 1996. The ultimate, macro goal of restorative justice is restoring victims and offenders into safe communities where disputes can be peacefully resolved. Juvenile justice...
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“Mediation-Experiment in Finland.”
by Grõnfors, M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1989) In: P. Albrecht and O. Backes (eds.), Crime Prevention and Intervention: Legal and Ethical Problems. New York, NY: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 117-127. A locally-modified version of community mediation was started in the City of Vantaa, Finland, in 1984. This paper reports on the...
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“Ideals and Reality in Community Mediation.”
by Grõnfors, M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1989) In: M. Wright and B. Galaway (eds.), Mediation and Criminal Justice: Victims, Offenders and Community. London, UK: Sage Publications, pp. 140-151. This chapter reports on Finland’s first community mediation project began in 1983 in the city of Vantaa, near Helsinki. The...
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“A Survey on Public Acceptance of Restitution as an Alternative to Incarceration for Property Offenders in Hennepin County. Minnesota, U.S.A.”
by Bae, I
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. 291-308. This research is a study on restitution as an alternative to...
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