Aboriginal Legal Theory and Restorative Justice: Part Two
by Guest, James J.R
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Justice as Healing 4 (1). In this second of two articles, the author more sharply raises issues he sees in attempting to augment Western criminal justice systems with restorative justice practices. He perceives a real danger that reforms in the area of restorative justice will...
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Aboriginal Legal Theory and Restorative Justice
by Guest, James J.R
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Justice as Healing 4 (1). In this first of two articles, the author contends that Aboriginal peoples are attempting to displace the legal system from their communities and replace it with culturally relevant systems of justice. Aboriginal perspectives on what constitutes justice...
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Aboriginal People and the Canadian Justice System
by Green, Ross
June 4, 2015
Source: (1998) Justice as Healing 3 (4). The author states that the purpose of a justice system in an Aboriginal society is to restore peace and equilibrium within the community, and to reconcile the accused with his or her own conscience and with the individual or family that has been...
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To Restore: Bring Back to Health/Cure, or Reinstate; Bring Back to Dignity or Right
by Elgersma, Sandra
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) University of Waterloo In this essay the writer examines restorative justice and the issues of its commonality with and applicability to Aboriginal cultures and practices. She notes that restorative justice has been receiving much attention from the criminal justice system and...
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Picturing the Transformation Process
by Dunbaugh, Frank M
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Maryland Justice Policy Institute, Inc Mr. Dunbaugh disputes the contention that penal abolitionists should reject restorative justice and seek instead transformative justice. He urges that abolitionists must continue to pursue their primary goal – penal abolition –...
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Developing Restorative and Transformative Justice: A Church Response to Crime
by Consedine, Jim
June 4, 2015
Source: (1999) Maryland Justice Policy Institute, Inc The author argues not just for restorative justice, but for transformative justice processes as well. Restorative justice has huge strengths, but some limitations. Transformative justice has less. God’s justice, as revealed in the...
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Restorative Justice: A Framework for Fresno
by Claassen, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Fresno, CA: Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. Fresno Pacific University. Downloaded 11 January 2005. This paper results from a working coalition of key leaders and officials in a community in California (USA). The paper represents a proposal for broad-based systemic...
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Accountability and Restorative Justice
by Claassen, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. This is one in a series of papers on basic principles of restorative justice. Claassen remarks that everyone agrees accountability is a central component in reducing crime, but people often mean different things. To help determine the...
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“The J Scale: Measuring Restorative Justice.”
by Claassen, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. This is one in a series of papers on basic principles of restorative justice. Noting and applauding a growing interest in restorative justice, Claassen cautions that the words may be used to describe many things that, in actions and...
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“The Myth of Redemptive Violence: Restorative Justice Challenges the ‘Myth of Redemptive Violence
by Claassen, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. This is one in a series of papers on basic principles of restorative justice. In it Claassen refers to Walter Wink’s assertion that our society’s preferred response to violence is vengeance, which Wink labels as the...
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“What Is Forgiveness?”
by Claassen, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. This is one in a series of papers on basic principles of restorative justice. Claassen claims that the biblical notion of forgiveness, which is a process, involves three key elements: recognizing the injustice (confession); restoring...
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“What Is Restorative Justice? Restorative Justice 1.
by Claassen, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. This is the first in a series of papers on basic principles of restorative justice. In this the author asks whether “criminal justice system” is a good name. Does it describe the primary actors? Is it descriptive of what...
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Restorative Justice Principles: ‘Restorative Justice’ Primary Focus on People, Not Procedures
by Claassen, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. In this article the author introduces a series of articles that originally appeared in the VORP newsletter of the Central Valley in California. (They were based on two presentations given by the author at the 1996 National Conference...
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Restorative Justice – Fundamental Principles
by Claassen, Ron
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. As revised May 1996 at the UN Alliance of NGOs Working Party on Restorative Justice, this page presents 11 principles of restorative justice as identified by the author. It summarizes his longer descriptions in other sources, such as...
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Evaluating the Quality of Justice
by Barsh, Russell Lawrence
June 4, 2015
Source: (1995) Justice as Healing (Spring) Barsh, a professor at a Canadian university, notes different meanings for the concept “justice,” depending on one’s cultural context. For example, non-Aboriginal students tended to define justice as equality before the law....
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