From Wagga Wagga to Minnesota
by O'Connell, Terry
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Paper presented at the First North American Conference on Conferencing. Minneapolis, 6-8 August 1998. O’Connell, once a police sergeant in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, traces the history of family group conferencing from its inception in New Zealand in 1989....
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From Silos to Circles: Reclaiming Restorative Practices
by Trebilcock, Romola
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper presented at The Second International Conference on Conferencing and Circles: Restorative Practice in Action. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 10-12 August 2000. Tebilcock, having worked in many components of the criminal justice system over the years, describes changes in her...
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From Empathy to Community
by Nathanson, Donald L
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) The Annual of Psychoanalysis (25). Nathanson presents a long discussion of a theory of affect (emotion) developed by Michael Franz Basch (based at least in part on the affect theory of Sylvan Tomkins). Nathanson examines Tomkins’s account of affect and Basch’s...
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Friends and restorative justice. Dialogue paper
by Brown, Tony C
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Moscow, Idaho: Friends Committee on Restorative Justice. Brown explores connections between the Society of Friends and reforms of the criminal justice system. His aim is to encourage Friends to understand their historical roots and to engage in restorative justice activities and...
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Freedom From Fear Campaign Against Domestic Violence: An Innovative Approach to Reducing Crime
by Gibbons, Leonie
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. In 1995 the Western Australian government Family and Domestic Violence Taskforce produced a...
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The fragmentation of sentencing and corrections in America
by Tonry, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Sentencing & Corrections: Issues for the 21st Century (Research in Brief). No. 1 (September). Papers from the Executive Sessions on Sentencing and Corrections. Washington, DC: United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice....
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“The Fort Peck Community Wellness Court implementation plan.”
by Justice Programs Office, Anthony
June 4, 2015
Source: Washington, DC: American University, School of Public Affairs, Justice Programs Office. Ft. Peck is a tribal reservation in northeast Montana. This paper describes the plan to implement a program for a tribal Community Wellness Court. Included in this description are the following: an...
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“Formal restorative justice in Nova Scotia: A pre-implementation overview.”
by Thomson, Anthony
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Paper presented at the Atlantic Association of Sociologists and Anthropologists annual conference. Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 22 October. Beginning in the late 1990s, Nova Scotia has embarked on a province-wide reform of its justice system to transform it in accord with...
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Forgiving justice: An exploration of spirituality within criminal justice
by Newell, Tim
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Swarthmore Lecture 2000. Woodbrooke, England: Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre. In this address, Tim Newell draws from his experiences as a prison governor in England. He begins by discussing the victim’s voice, the offender’s voice, and the community’s voice....
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“For All Its Flaws: The TRC as a Peacebuilding Tool”
by Odendaal, Andries
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Track Two 6(3&4). Odendaal explores the paradoxes of incorporating truth, peace, mercy and justice into one process. He points out that each of these ideas is needed for the creation of reconciliation. A safe place for the expression of truth is needed to build peace and...
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“Following in the footsteps of God – How churches become peace churches.”
by Warneck, Wilfried
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Paper presented at the Theology and Culture: Peacemaking in a Globalized World conference. Bienenberg Theological Seminary, Switzerland, 25-29 June. Warneck investigates ways in which a mainstream church (i.e., a church belonging not to one of the historic peace traditions but...
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Family Group Conferencing: Implications for Crime Victims
by Umbreit, Mark S
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime. Umbreit notes that family group conferencing is an exciting development in restorative justice. It opens new opportunities for crime victims to become involved in sanctioning of the offender. Yet, like all...
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Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Bureau of Data & Research: 2000 Outcome Evaluation Report, Youth Released From Juvenile Justice Programs, July 1, 1997 through June 30, 1998
by Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Sue
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Florida Dept. of Justice Data from almost 1,000 different programs and case management units of the Prevention, Intervention, and Commitment program components of Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice were collected and analyzed. The youth who completed prevention...
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“Family Conferences in the Juvenile Justice System of South Australia.â€?
by Hetzel, Sue
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) E Law – Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, Vol 3, No 2. Part A of this paper, by Roseanne McInnes, considers the history of diversion of young offenders in South Australia, and also looks at the family conference as a sentencing option in practice. Part B, by...
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“Family Matters: How Young Offenders’ Families Engage in Restorative Justice.”
by Muntingh, Lukas
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Track Two 7(3): 18-20. The Authors discuss the National Institute of Crime Prevention and Reintegration’s use of diversion programs. Although mentioning the five programs run by NICRO, family group conferencing is discussed in detail. Pointing out the importance that an...
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