“Specialist Courts and Community Courts.”
by Schärf, Wilfred
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) University of Cape Town, Institute of Criminology. Position Paper, Commissioned by the Planning Unit, Ministry of Justice, South Africa. Schärf explains the functions of South Africa’s community courts (as distinct from those of the formal justice system), their...
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Sexual Assault and Restorative Justice
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at Restorative Justice and Family Violence Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, July 2000. Daly argues that the dichotomy between restorative and retributive justice needs to be revisited. In the case of sexualized violence, restorative processes...
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“Sentencing Options for Juveniles.”
by Robertson, J.M.
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. Judge Robertson outlines the sentencing options for juveniles throughout Australia. This ranges from conferencing to...
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Restorative Justice, Emerging Views
by Cunneen, Chris
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs. October 2002. School of Economics and Political Science, University of Sydney. 4 December 02. Cunneen Reviews Restorative Justice and Family Violence edited by Heather Strang and John Braithwaite. After a brief...
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Self-Categorisations and Shifts in the Delinquent Social Identity
by Khoo, Angeline
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Paper presented at the First North American Conference on Conferencing. Minneapolis, 6-8 August 1998. The author discusses juvenile identity and delinquency. Self-categorisation theory’s concept of the variable self allows one to postulate that delinquents experience...
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Seeking transformative justice for women: Views from Canada.
by Faith, Karlene
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Journal of International Women’s Studies 2 (November). Addressing issues related to women’s imprisonment in Canada, Faith discusses alternatives to retributive punishment, particularly in terms of community-based justice within a framework of restorative or...
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“Seeing Law in Pre-European Maori Society”
by Rumbles, Wayne
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Hamilton, New Zealand: The University of Waikato, Custom Law Project. In examining social control in pre-European Maori society, Rumbles notes a diversity of forms and functions of law, varying from codified law in large-scale complex societies to customary law in small-scale...
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“The Search for Parallel Justice.”
by Herman, Susan
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper presented at the Restoration for Victims of Crime Conference. Australian Institute of Criminology and Victims Referral and Assistance Service. Melbourne Herman explores the needs of victims. She lists the strengths and weaknesses of both community and restorative justice....
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“Conferences, Circles, Boards, and Mediations: Scouting the “New Waveâ€? of Community Justice Decisionmaking Approaches.”
by Bazemore, Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Balanced and Restorative Justice Project. Florida Atlantic University and University of Minnesota. Although interest in “restorative justice,” “community justice,” and other alternatives to adversarial, retributive justice paradigms have recently captured...
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School violence and community conferencing: The benefits of restorative justice.
by Thorsborne, Margaret
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented for the APAPDC Online Conference 2000, 15 May-17 June. In the context of school violence, Thorsborne maintains that community conferencing is an effective process for dealing with violent incidents. To support this, she summarizes the history of community...
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South Australia Juvenile Justice (SAJJ) Research on Conferencing. Technical report no. 2: Research instruments in year 2 (1999) and background notes.
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Brisbane, Queensland: Griffith University, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. The South Australia Juvenile Justice (SAJJ) Research on Conferencing project consists of observations of conferencing in response to juvenile offenses. SAJJ focuses on ways of measuring...
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South Australia Juvenile Justice (SAJJ) Research on Conferencing. Technical report no. 1: Project overview and research instruments.
by Daly, Kathleen
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Brisbane, Queensland: Griffith University, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. The South Australia Juvenile Justice (SAJJ) Research on Conferencing project consists of observations of conferencing in response to juvenile offenses. SAJJ focuses on ways of measuring...
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SaferSanerSchools: Restoring community in a disconnected world
by Wachtel, Ted
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: International Institute for Restorative Practices. Wachtel observes that punishment is the normal response to wrongdoing. Not wanting to be perceived as permissive when behavior in schools becomes more difficult and violent, schools are increasingly more...
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“Restorative Practices Seen by the Court”
by Dutil, Jean-L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Paper presented at the First North American Conference on Conferencing. Minneapolis, 6-8 August 1998. Quebec, Canada, Dutil discusses a number of principles and practices in Aboriginal communities in Quebec – principles and practices blending Aboriginal patterns and...
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“Rites of Passage: Using Ritual to Reclaim Young People in Trouble with the Law.”
by Karth, Vanja
June 4, 2015
Source: Documents of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Young People at Risk from the website “Young People at Risk South Africaâ€?. Karth discusses the historically important place of ritual in helping youth to learn what their society expects of them. Karth applies the...
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