Healing as Justice: The American Experience
by Yazzie, Robert
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Justice as Healing 3 (2). Beginning by rehearsing a common Anglo definition of law as consisting of norms, institutions and force, the author compares and contrasts aspects of a Navajo approach to the nature of crime and principles and practices to respond to crime. For example,...
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The Navajo Response to Crime
by Yazzie, Robert
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Justice as Healing 3 (2). Yazzie, writing as Chief Justice of the Navajo Nation, describes basic principles and practices of a traditional Navajo response to crime and relates them to restorative justice. For example, in the Navajo perspective an offender is one who shows little...
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Restorative Justice – A Better Way
by Wray, Harmon
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Response June 1999. In this article, Wray summarizes a restorative justice approach. Crime is understood primarily as the violation of one person by another. The real victim, the offender, and the local community are all involved in deciding what it will take to “make it...
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The Victim Justice Ship in the Restorative Justice Harbor
by Voth, David
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Victim-Assistance Online. The author notes that workshops on the role of crime victims in restorative justice theory and programming usually center on anecdotal victim sensitivity stories, illustrations of victim offender mediation, and exhortations to include victims as stake...
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Application of s.718.2(e) of the Criminal Code: R. v. Gladue
by Supreme Court of Canada.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Justice as Healing 4 (2). This is an excerpt from the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision concerning the meaning and application of a section of the Criminal Code of Canada with respect to alternative sentencing, particularly for Aboriginal offenders, but not limited to...
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The Victim’s Perspective
by Strang, Heather
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE), Australian National University, Canberra. RISE Working Papers: Paper No. 2 The authors claim that victims are the forgotten players in the drama of criminal justice, exploited for their evidence but otherwise abandoned. Victims say that...
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Developing & Evaluating Justice Projects in Aboriginal Communities: A Review of the Literature
by Solicitor General, Canada
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Solicitor General, Canada. There has been a proliferation of Aboriginal justice initiatives in recent years. The main impetus has been a wide-spread view, common among both Aboriginal people, and officials and key players in the justice system, that the conventional criminal...
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Adult Offender Diversion Programs
by Solicitor General, Canada.
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Solicitor General, Canada. Building on Nuffield’s 1997 report for the Solicitor General, Canada, this report summarizes her major findings and lists key policy...
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EXODUS: A Working Image for Restorative Justice Ministry
by Smith, Harold
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) United Methodist Church. General Board of Global Ministries. The authors describe a restorative justice ministry – EXODUS – for inmates in the state of New York. It can lead inmates to repentance, conversion, and personal transformation. Restorative justice/prison...
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Restorative Justice and Deterring Crime.
by Sherman, Lawrence W
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE), Australian National University, Canberra. RISE Working Papers: Paper No. 4. The authors contend that experiments in reintegrative shaming by the Canberra police (Australia) indicate that offenders are more deterred from repeat offending...
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The Right Kind of Shame for Crime Prevention
by Sherman, Lawrence W
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE), Australian National University, Canberra. RISE Working Papers: Paper No. 1. Claiming that the Australian Federal Police in Canberra have adopted alternative restorative justice techniques, the authors discuss two kinds of shame, as...
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Restorative Justice and Offenders’ Respect for the Law
by Sherman, Lawrence W
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE), Australian National University, Canberra. RISE Working Papers: Paper No. 3. Sherman and Barnes review a new practice by the Canberra police. The new method, called “diversionary conferencing” in the ACT, was introduced in...
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Toward a Christian Theology of Church and Society as It Relates to Restorative Justice
by Ruth-Heffelbower, Duane
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. In this presentation made to a Restorative Justice Conference in Fresno, CA, the author observes that the influence of the Church on the larger society is declining in most European and North American countries. In response he asks...
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Indonesia: Restorative Justice for Healing a Divided Society
by Ruth-Heffelbower, Duane
June 4, 2015
Source: Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. The modern Restorative Justice (RJ) movement began in North America as an approach to crime, and in New Zealand as an approach to child welfare issues. Both were based on the communal experience familiar to villagers worldwide. Societies...
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Aboriginal Community Healing in Action: The Hollow Water Approach
by Ross, Rupert
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Justice as Healing (Spring) In response to instances of sexual abuse in an Ojibway community in Canada, a group of social service providers developed an alternate response to the criminal offenses based at least in part on Native principles and practices. The accused may choose...
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