How restorative practices made me a high school principal.
by Fertal, Thomas
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Restorative Practices E-Forum. 12 April. From the very beginning, I must say that the concepts I had learned at the IIRP showed their worth: Fair process,functioning as a community and compassionate witnessing. All of these became the tools I used in dealing with faculty,...
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Community-based dispute resolution processes in Kabul City.
by Gang, Rebecca
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Kabul: The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit. The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)’s Community-Based Dispute Resolution (CBDR) series was therefore launched in 2006 to support policy and programming in the field of justice sector reform and...
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Resistance to the mainlandization of criminal justice practices: A barrier to the development of restorative justice in Hong Kong.
by Wing Lo, T
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. Published online before print April 13, 2011, doi: 10.1177/0306624X11405481. This article examines the political and legal barriers to introducing restorative justice (RJ) in Hong Kong. It argues that the...
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The restorative approach in Nova Scotia: A partnership of government, communities and schools.
by Shafer, Mary
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Restorative Practices E-Forum. 1 April. In its twelfth year, Restorative Justice Nova Scotia (NSRJ) shows promising results in schools and communities, through a vibrant partnership between government and the community....
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Theorising rights-based restorative justice: The Canadian context.
by Moore, Shannon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) The International Journal of Children’s Rights. 19(1):81-105. This paper investigates theoretical and practice intersections in Canada between the principles and provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the UN’s Basic Principles on the Use of...
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“What will happen to me?”.
by Zehr, Howard
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Good Books, Intercourse, PA. Every night, approximately three million children go to bed with a parent in prison or jail. Here are their thoughts and...
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The Gacaca courts, post-genocide justice and reconciliation in Rwanda: Justice without lawyers.
by Clark, Phil
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Cambridge University Press, New York. Since 2001, the gacaca community courts have been the centrepiece of Rwanda’s jsutice and reconciliation programme. Nearly every adult Rwandan has participated in the trials, principally by providing eyewitness testimony concerning...
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The art of caring: Woman and Restorative Justice.
by Lobb, Peggy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Dissertation. Doctor of Philosophy. Antioch University. The process of restorative justice involves the caring compassion of others by providing support for the peaceful resolution of the conflict. The term restorative justice is used to describe a justice practice that has been...
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Wife beating: A case study.
by Gaemate, Seth
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Contemporary PNG Studies: DWU Research Journal. 11: 115-128. Restorative Justice is one of the buzzwords, which people use when talking about conflict resolution today. For many it is any process, which reduces conflicts and builds the quality of life (Dinnen 2000, p. 1). This...
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When second best is good enough: a comparison between a true experiment and a regression discontinuity quasi-experiment.
by Berk, Richard
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Journal of Experimental Criminology. 6(2): 191-208. In this paper, we compare the results from a randomized clinical trial to the results from a regression discontinuity quasi-experiment when both designs are implemented in the same setting. We find that the results from the two...
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Documentation, documentary, and the law: What should be made of victim impact videos?
by Austin, Regina
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Cardozo Law Review. 31(4): 979-1017. When a majority of the Supreme Court rejected appeals in two capital cases involving the admissibility of victim impact videos, Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer disagreed and wrote separately respecting the denials of certiorari....
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Complementarity in Crisis: Uganda, alternative justice, and the international criminal court.
by Greenawalt, Alexander K. A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Virginia Journal of International Law. 50(1): 107-162. In recent years, the government of Uganda has been engaged in peace talks with the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to end the nation’s devastating civil war. By most accounts, the talks have represented the...
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Community tolerance of community-based reparative boards in Vermont: A closer look at community members’ tolerance of offense types.
by Miller, Noah Patrick
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Thesis. University of Maryland. Many people support harsh punishments for convicted offenders. Similarly there are large amounts of political resistance to any criminal justice policies that appear to be soft on crime. On the surface this is a self perpetuating circle, but when...
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Learning from the past: Three lessons from the Rwandan genocide.
by Clark, Janine Natalya
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) African Studies. 63(1): 1-28. The past cannot be changed, but we can learn from it. The purpose of this article is to explore some of the lessons that can be learnt from the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. The first of these is that the ge´nocidaires should not be dehumanised....
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The uncommon currency of restorative justice and practices.
by Taraschi, Gola
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Uncommon Currency. March 2009. We all seem to believe that the world is a much smaller place than it used to be. By clicking a mouse or carrying a cell phone, we can connect to any one, any where at any time. We can have all of the information that we want and...
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