Formal and informal justice and punishment:Urban law and rural mediation rituals in Yemen.
by Morris, Travis
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Race and Justice. 1(2):131-153. For this article, the authors used ethnographic and interview data collected in 2008 to examine restorative justice rituals performed in Yemen. Interviewees explain that, in rural Yemen, police officers defer to local sheikhs to maintain peace in...
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Breaking the cycle – a response from Prison Fellowship.
by PF England and Wales, Neles
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Maldon, Essex: Prison Fellowship England and Wales. If it is to effect long term change in offenders and really to satisfy victims and communities, two things are important: first that the reparation is linked to an opportunity for those affected to say how they have been...
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Restorative justice is a lot of work – but it’s worth it.
by Woodward, Dean
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Community Care. 1796: 23. This article explores a research of establishing a restorative youth justice system in Great Britain. The research suggested that face-to-face restorative justice often shows as the most effective model in reducing re-offending. It also found that...
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Restorative justice and victims of terrorism.
by Staiger, Ines
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Assisting victims of terrorism. Chapter 7: 267-337. Springer. Restorative justice for victims of terrorism is a rarely researched topic despite various legal instruments dealing with the response to terrorism. A common way to respond to terrorism is either by prosecuting...
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Justice, human rights, and reconciliation in postconflict Cambodia.
by Dicklitch, Susan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Human Rights Review. 11(4): 515-530. Retribution? Restitution? Reconciliation? “Justice†comes in many forms as witnessed by the spike in war crimes tribunals, Truth & Reconciliation Commissions, hybrid tribunals and genocide trials. Which, if any form is...
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Reconceptualizing restorative justice.
by Bloch, Kate E.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal. 7: 201-222. Imagine yourself seated in a darkened theater at the start of a performance. The heavy velour curtain rises. A single spotlight illuminates a circle in the center of the stage. Your attention is riveted on the story unfolding...
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Between the Scylla and Charybdis of prosecution and reconciliation: The Khmer Rouge trials and the promise of international criminal justice.
by Jain, Neha
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law. 20(2): 247-290. The issue of “justice versus peace” has long been at the center of the controversy on international prosecutions for crimes in transitional and post-conflict societies. Opponents of international...
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Prison chaplaincy, restorative justice, and just. equipping.
by Allard, Pierre
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice. 21(3): 330-338. ‘‘Not another article about a NGO in Rwanda,’’ you might say. Just as the world ignored Rwanda in the grips of the 1994 genocide, today, it’s hard to open a newspaper or journal without...
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Restorative justice: Principles, practices, and Application.
by O'Brien, Sandra
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) The Prevention Researcher. 14: 16-17. A modern-day movement is transforming the way that communities and justice systems thing about and respond to crime and wrongful occurrences. This response implements a holistic continuum of services, providing for prevention, intervention,...
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West Papua: The need for restorative justice.
by Tebay, Neles
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Committee for Conflict Transformation Support Review. 25(July): online. The first and determining step towards a peaceful settlement in West Papua, through the process of Restorative Justice, is that the Indigenous Papuans and Indonesian government must both commit themselves to...
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Evaluating the Minnesota Comprehensive Offender Reentry Plan (MCORP): Results from a randomized experiment.
by Duwe, Grant
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Justice Quarterly. DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2011.555414 Using a randomized experimental design, this study evaluated the effectiveness of the Minnesota Comprehensive Offender Reentry Plan (MCORP), an offender reentry pilot project implemented in 2008. In an effort to reduce...
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A multigroup analysis of reintegrative shaming theory: An application to drunk driving offenses.
by Dansie, Elizabeth J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Dissertation. Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology. Utah State University. A restorative justice alternative to crime prevention termed reintegrative shaming theory by Braithwaite has seen increased attention as an alternative to retributive justice, although empirical...
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Patterns of war reconciliation in Japan and Germany. A comparison.
by Hein, Patrick
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) East Asia. 27: 145-164. War reconciliation and cultures of memory themes continue to receive high attention but despite the long list of newly released books praising Germany which has been thought to be more prone to experience guilt and from it ensuing war responsibility for...
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Conflict over approaches to social science research: Participatory research as disruptive?: a report on a conflict in social science paradigms at a criminal justice agency promoting alternatives to incarceration.
by Price, Joshua
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Contemporary Justice Review. 11(4): 387-412. This is an ethnographic study of a clash of two paradigms of knowledge in an organization that provides alternatives-to-incarceration programs for the criminal justice system in a large city. As a new program evaluator for the...
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Safety, security, and accessible justice: Participation approaches to law and justice reform in Papua New Guinea.
by MacDonald, Rosita
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Honolulu: East-West Center. 3-31. Rosita MacDonald examines the challenges facing the law and justice reform partnership between Australia and its former colony Papua New Guinea (PNG). Serious safety and security issues confront PNG, with the incidence of violent crime...
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