Bittersweet candy, sweet peace
by Starkweather, Hanna.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) VORP News 18 (October/November): 1. In this article Hanna Starkweather narrates a story of candy stealing and mediation. Three fifth graders were involved in stealing candy from a special store at their elementary school. With Ms. Starkweather as mediator, the students, their...
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Bi-lingual mediation satisfies victims’ needs.
by Victim Offender Reconciliation Program
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) VORP News 19 (January/February): 1-2. This article describes the process of a community justice conference to address an offense referred by the court to the Victim Offender Reconciliation Program. The offense consisted of breaking, entering, and burglarizing by three teenagers,...
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Beyond punishment: Moving towards the application of conciliatory justice in the Canadian context.
by Friesen, Krista
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Alberta, Canada: Canadian Forum on Civil Justice Contending that the conventional criminal justice system inadequately deals with the results of crime, and even adds to the damage inflicted by crime, Friesen urges an alternative system of justice. In contrast to what she sees as...
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Beyond Mediation: How South Africa’s ‘Other Mediation’ is Challenging Conventional Models
by Nina, Daniel.
June 4, 2015
Source: Track Two. 7(1). Nina explores the indigenization of mediation processes in South African communities. In solving conflicts, these communities have built a culture of conflict resolution from elements of traditional practices and formal mediation training. This process has carried them...
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Between vengeance and forgiveness: Feminist responses to violent injustice.
by Minow, Martha
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) New England Law Review 32 (Summer). In the face of violent crime and injustice and hard questions about how to respond to such, Minow asks whether there is or should be a particular feminist perspective on these issues. On the one side are responses based on legal forms,...
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The Bethlehem Pennsylvania Police Family Group Conferencing Project
by McCold, Paul
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Pipersville, PA: Community Service Foundation. This is a report on the Bethlehem Pennsylvania Police Family Group Conferencing Project. First-time moderately serious juvenile offenders were randomly assigned either to formal adjudication or to a diversionary “restorative...
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A best practice model for victim services: A reflection on the process that developed the model.
by Lamont, Louise
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. Lamont maintains that, for families affected by family and domestic violence, a Best Practice...
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Best Practice in Community Partnership to Reduce Youth Offending (Lessons Learned from Eight Years of Practice).
by Armitage, Steve
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 paper will discuss the issues that have emerged from eight years of partnership between...
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Balanced and Restorative Justice for Juveniles: A Framework for Juvenile Justice in the 21st Century
by Bazemore, Gordon
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) St. Paul, Minnesota: Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking, University of Minnesota. The debate over the future of the juvenile court and the juvenile justice system has been between proponents of a retributive philosophy and advocates of the traditional individual...
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A Space In Your Heart You Never Knew You Had” : Qualitative Case-Study: The Impact and Experience of Young Adult.
by Stanton, Emily.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Paper submitted to the Conflict Transformation Program, Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, VA). This paper presents the findings of a research project by Ms. Stanton into the experiences and change processes in young adults in a reconciliation program at Corrymeela...
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A Safe Space: How Local Leaders Can make Room for Reconciliation
by Spies, Chris.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Track Two. 6(3&4) Spies explores the meanings of reconciliation for a community and the reasoning for ongoing conflicts. Using a survey, Spies and a local team gathered the peoplexe2x80x99s ideas and definitions of reconciliation. The main argument was that a safe place for...
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The Appeal of Restorative Justice to Policy Makers.
by Swart, Steve.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) United Nations Crime Congress: Ancillary Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 2000. Swart, a member of South Africaxe2x80x99s Parliament, addresses the hopeful prospect that practicing RJ would give to address the greatly elevated crime rate in SA that accompanied the end of apartheid....
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Apologies: Balancing the Needs of Victims and Offenders
by Lavery, Carol
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) OVA Newsletter, Mary Achilles, Victim Advocate, vol. 3, issue 1. Lavery and Achilles identify important issues and questions that must be addressed when apologies by offenders to their victims is considered as part of a restorative justice endeavor. The victim must be in control...
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Alternative justice, testing the waters.
by Point, Steven.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Justice as Healing 6 (Spring). This article presents an address by Steven Point, judge of the Provincial Court of British Columbia, at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, January 29, 2001. In this address to law students, he introduces restorative justice as the...
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A JustPeace Ethic- dancing our way back to humanity: Finding the creative space where conflict transformation and restorative justice meet together.
by Sawatsky, Jarem.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Harrisonburg, VA: Eastern Mennonite University. In this paper, Sawatsky investigates the relationships between restorative justice and conflict transformation, with particular reference to their values and guiding principles. Finding significant commonality between them, he...
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