Community Justice Centres in New South Wales: An Experimental Model That Works
by Faulkes, W
June 4, 2015
Source: (1985) In: K. Hazlehurst (ed.), Justice Programs for Aboriginal and Other Indigenous Communities. Phillip Act, AUS: Australian Institute of Criminology, pp. 143-151. This paper describes the operation and effectiveness of voluntary mediation in community justice centers in New South...
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Punishment and Restorative Crime-Handling: A Social Theory of Trust.
by Fatic, A
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Aldershot, UK: Avebury Ashgate Publishing. This essay considers the problem of the moral justification of the deliberate infliction of pain and deprivation as a response to criminal wrongdoing. The author demonstrates how most theories of justice are in fact rationalizations of...
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“The Norwegian Community Mediation Centers at a Crossroads.”
by Falck, Sturla
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. 131-148. The Norwegian community mediation centers have reached an...
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Compensation through Mediation: A Conceptual Framework
by Evarts, W.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1990) In: B. Galaway and J. Hudson (eds.), Criminal Justice, Restitution and Reconciliation. Monsey NY: Criminal Justice Press, pp. 15-21. This essay maintains that doing justice requires adherence to Plato’s principle of doing no harm. The remedy for crime must be based on the...
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“Compensation through Mediation: A Conceptual Framework.”
by Evarts, W.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1990) In: B. Galaway and J. Hudson (eds.), Criminal Justice, Restitution and Reconciliation. Monsey NY: Criminal Justice Press, pp. 15-21. This essay maintains that doing justice requires adherence to Plato’s principle of doing no harm. The remedy for crime must be based on the...
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Forgiving in the Face of Injustice: Victims’ and Perpetrators’ Perspectives.
by Estrada-Hollenbeck, Mica
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) In: B. Galaway and J. Hudson (eds.), Restorative Justice: International Perspectives. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, pp. 303-314. Victims and perpetrators describe their perceptions of incidents when forgiveness did and did not occur. Researchers content coded the...
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Explaining the Effects of Restitution on Offenders: Results from a National Experiment in Juvenile Courts
by Schneider, A
June 4, 2015
Source: (1990) In: B. Galaway and J. Hudson (eds.), Criminal Justice, Restitution, and Reconciliation. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press, pp. 183-206. This study compares restitution to other dispositions used in 6 juvenile courts in the U.S. Data (N=876) were obtained from records of a...
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TQM and All That Jazz: Rejuvenating Juvenile Justice
by English, T
June 4, 2015
Source: (1993) Juvenile Justice 1(2):16-22. This essay asserts that the anointing of Total Quality Management (TQM) and ideas from the book “Reinventing Government” as the royal road to economic and political revitalization has sometimes led to excessive expectations by those...
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“Sentencing of Children in New Zealand: A New Direction.”
by Dyck, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Criminal Law Journal 19: 133-138. The Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989 (NZ) reforms the law relating to children and young persons who are in need of care or protection or who offend against the law. It departs from a traditional criminal justice approach by...
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“Law and Practice of Victim/Offender Agreements.”
by D. Rossner, P
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. 152-177. The concept of reparation and conflict-resolving victim/offender mediation has made significant advances over the past few years,...
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Justice: The Restorative Vision. New Perspectives on Crime and Justice (Issue #7).
by Arthur, P
June 4, 2015
Source: (1989) Akron, PA: Mennonite Central Committee Office of Criminal Justice. This publication contains three articles debating the merits and problems of restorative justice. Restorative justice is offered as an alternative to the present system of criminal justice in the United States...
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Recent Trends in Penal Law for Minors.
by Dünkel, Frieder
June 4, 2015
Source: (1990) Freiburg, GER: Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Justice. An anthology includes papers on mediation, intermediate treatment and community service in the juvenile justice systems of Austria, Belgium, Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland...
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“Victim Compensation and Offender Restitution in the Federal Republic of Germany : A Western European Comparative Perspective.”
by Dünkel, Frieder
June 4, 2015
Source: (1985) International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 9(1/2):29-39. The German Victim Compensation Act of 1976 provides compensation for violent acts with periodic payments, while most of the other West European countries grant lump sums from a special compensation...
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“Restitution, an Analysis of the Victim-Offender Relationship: Towards a Working Model in Australia.”
by Duckworth, A.M.E
June 4, 2015
Source: (1980) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 13(4):227-240. The results of evaluations of some offender-victim restitution programs for selected uncomplicated cases are highly encouraging in terms of successful outcome for the parties involved and in reduced costs per case...
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“Victim Offender Mediation: A Feasible Alternative? Findings of and Thoughts about a Project in Oldenburg.”
by Driebold, R
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) BewShrungshilfe 42(1):82-93. Taking the working method and results of a victim offender mediation project in the German city of Oldenburg as an example, the author examines how feasible an alternative victim offender mediation approach is to trial proceedings and sanctions of...
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