Managing change: Toward a balanced and restorative justice model.
by Maloney, Dennis M
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Deschutes County, Oregon: Deschutes County Juvenile Community Justice. Maloney and Umbreit describe the difficulties for management in the juvenile justice system. In response, they argue for systemic change in juvenile probation departments for greater success. Such change must...
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Making a difference
by Smith, Lesley
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Chelmsford, England: Essex County Council This paper consists of a summary of preliminary findings of a research study on family group conferencing in Essex. After a pilot period, the Essex Family Group Conference began accepting referrals in 1997. Topics covered in this paper...
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Local government’s effective community responses
by Graycar, Adam
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Reducing Criminality: Partnerships and Best Practice conference. Perth, 31 July – 1 August 2000. Canberra, Australia: Australian Institute of Criminology. Graycar examines issues of crime committed by young people and measures that can reduce youth...
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Local Community Innovations: Transformation House
by Sheldon, Susan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Restorative Justice Online. September 2001 Edition. This private, non-profit organization in Kentucky serves homicide survivors and convicted murderers. When both parties desire it, Transformation House brings together death row inmates with the survivors of their victim. Meet...
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Living criminologically with naked emperors
by Pepinsky, Harold E.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) In A criminologist’s quest for peace, Harold E. Pepinsky. Online edition: American Society of Criminology and Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Writing in a criminological context, Pepinsky chooses to focus on peacemaking rather than focus on making war on crime and...
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The Leuven Declaration on the Advisability of Promoting the Restorative Approach to Juvenile Crime
by International Conference on Restorative Justice
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Made on the occasion of the First International Conference on Restorative Justice for Juveniles – Potentialities, Risks and Problems for Research, Leuven, Belgium, May 12 – 14, 1997. Given that much of the restorative justice experimentation has been carried out...
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Legislative Proposals for Youth Justice: Family Group Conference
by InterMinisterial Committee on Young People at R
June 4, 2015
Source: Documents of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Young People at Risk Point-by-point formal document (for the South African juvenile justice system) on how to conduct a Family Group...
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Lebanon: Using Community Dialogue to Foster Reconciliation.
by Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2002) Restorative Justice Online March 2002 Edition. Twenty years of civil war, often along religious and ethnic lines, left Lebanon with a legacy of displaced communities where fear, anger, and mistrust hinder refugee return and community reconciliation. While the National...
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“The Kowanyama Justice Group: A Study of the Achievements and Constraints on Local Justice Administration in a Remote Aboriginal Community.”
by Chantrill, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Australian Institute of Criminology’s Occasional Seminar. Because Aboriginal Australians were victims of entrenched racism and discrimination in the justice system, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody recommended redress in the form of funding to...
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Keepers of the Peace: Reviving the Tradition of Bashingantahe in Burundi
by Nindorera, Louis-Marie
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Track Two. 7(1). Ninodorera explores the traditional method of conflict resolution for ethnic groups in Burundi. This council of elders was held to be impartial, truth loving, and of high moral standards. They were in charge of dispute resolution, family reconciliation, the...
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Keeping the community involvement in restorative justice
by Evans, Donald G
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Ancillary Meetings of the Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders. Vienna, Austria, 10-17 April. Evans, in this paper, writes about restorative justice with a concern that it could become merely another program...
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Kaslo Restorative Justice Committee: Community Accountability Program
by Moore, Larry
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) The Kaslo Restorative Justice Committee, the Kaslo R.C.M.P., the Ministry of the Attorney General of British Columbia. The authors explain the philosophy behind and the operation of the Kaslo Community Accountability Program in Kaslo, British Columbia. The report gives a profile...
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The Karnet Training Project
by Chavez, Raymond
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Reducing Criminality: Partnerships and Best Practice conference. Perth, 31 July – 1 August 2000. Canberra, Australia: Australian Institute of Criminology. The Karnet Training Project in Western Australia provides vocational qualifications and...
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Juvenile Offender Drug Intervention Project (J.O.D.I)
by Walters, Kellee
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at the Reducing Criminality: Partnerships and Best Practice conference. Perth, 31 July – 1 August 2000. Canberra, Australia: Australian Institute of Criminology. This project consists of a parent information package used by police and containing drug and...
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Juvenile justice reform: Children’s rights and responsibilities versus crime control
by Skelton, Ann
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Paper presented at the Children’s Rights in a Transitional Society conference. Centre for Child Law, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 30 October. In her paper Skelton considers three major themes that have influenced the process of juvenile justice reform...
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