“Vocational Education and Training in Northern Territory Correctional Centres.”
by Fitzgerald, Christine
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper presented at the Best Practice Interventions in Corrections for Indigenous People Conference convened by the Australian Institute of Criminology in conjunction with Department for Correctional Services SA and held in Adelaide, 13-15 October. The authors use the...
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Virginia Conferencing Project: A Four-Site Evaluation.
by McCold, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Pipersville PA: Community Service Foundation. August 24. This is a report presenting the results of a four-site evaluation of Real Justice community conferences for juveniles in justice and educational settings in during 1998-1999. Organizations in the sites applied for seed...
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“Victims and Villains-The Same Young Person.”
by Murray, Gwen
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper presented at the Children and Crime: Victims and Offenders Conference convened by the Australian Institute of Criminology and held in Brisbane, 17-18 June. Murray describes the work of the Youth Advocacy Center in Queensland. She points out certain attitudes held in...
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Victimology Past, Present, and Future
by Fattah, Ezzat A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Criminologie. 33(1). As popular as victimology has become, surprisingly, no comprehensive history of the discipline has ever been written and there are no systematic assessments of its present state or its likely future developments. The present paper is an attempt to fill the...
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“Victim sensitive offender dialogue in crimes of severe violence: Differing needs, approaches, and implications.”
by Coates, Robert B
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime. In this monograph the authors focus on the pursuit of restorative justice through victim offender dialogue. In particular they address issues regarding the application of restorative principles and...
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“Victims’ rights and services: New benchmarks for justice.”
by Gregorie, Trudy M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In Crime and justice atlas 2000, 30-31. Washington, DC: Justice Research and Statistics Association. In this article, Gregorie identifies key reforms of the last two decades in the recognition of victims’ rights and services at the sentencing and post-sentencing phases....
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“Victim releases offender from a $2,000.00 debt!”
by Griffith, Jay
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) VORP News 18 (August/September): 1 The author narrates the story of a juvenile offense and the continuing process of resolving it. A teenage girl and her friends stole an electrician’s van and damaged it and equipment in it. Upon apprehension of the offenders, the offense...
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Victim offender mediation: Looking for creative solutions
by Vanspauwen, Kris
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: University of Regina, School of Human Justice. In this paper Vanspauwen explores what he considers to be important themes or issues with respect to victim offender mediation. In this regard, he reviews the history of victim offender mediation, with...
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Victim impact of restorative justice conferencing with juvenile offenders: What we have learned from two decades of victim-offender dialogue through mediation and conferencing
by Vos, Betty
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Boca Raton, Florida: Florida Atlantic University, Community Justice Institute, Balanced and Restorative Justice Project. This draft report, a review of numerous research studies, focuses on the impact on victims of restorative justice conferencing in which they met face-to-face...
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Victim Sensitive Victim Offender Mediation Training Manual
by Umbreit, Mark S
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime. Emphasizing a sensitivity to victims, this is a comprehensive manual for training practitioners in victim offender mediation. It includes the following material: overview of victim offender mediation (e.g.,...
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The Victim Perspective: Ensuring the Victim Matters
by HM Inspector of Probation, Jan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Home Office. HM Inspectorate of Probation. Thematic Inspection Report. This report examines the changing role of the British Probation Service with regard to its increasing responsibility for the victims of crime as detailed in the victim’s charter and current UK...
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Victim Offender Mediation
by Bellard, Jan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) The Community Mediator (Fall 2000). Bellard describes the principles and practices of victim offender mediation (VOM). In doing so she compares and contrasts VOM with community mediation. They both appeared in the 1970s in the United States, but since then they have tended to...
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Victims, Judges, and Juvenile Court Reform Through Restorative Justice
by U.S. Department of Justice, Tom
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) OVC Bulletin. October 2000. The Victims, Judges, and Juvenile Court Reform Through Restorative Justice project was funded by the Office for Victims of Crime with the overall goal of improving the juvenile court response to crime victims. Four focus groups were held during the...
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Vermont Vision: Conferencing and Restorative Justice
by Fraga, Tom
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Paper presented at the First North American Conference on Conferencing. Minneapolis, 6-8 August 1998. Fraga and Simpson propose details (program criteria, referral procedures, types of intervention, rights and responsibilities) for a pre-adjudicative, restorative, juvenile...
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“Victim Experience of Mediating Adult vs. Juvenile Offenders: A Cross-National Comparison.”
by Umbreit, Mark S
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Federal Probation Journal 61 (4): 33-39. This study examines differences in victim satisfaction and attitudes toward victim-offender mediation based on participation in a mediation session with either adult or juvenile offenders. The data came from victim-offender programs in...
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