Nigeria’s Human Rights Violation Investigation Commission (HRVIC) and restorative justice: The promises, tensions and inspirations for transitional societies.
by Aìná, Raymond Olúsè san
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies. 4(1): 55-86. The lack of peace in most post-colonial African nation-states is tied to unresolved political asymmetry among peoples with contending narratives of origins and power relations. The Justice system bequeathed to...
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Community-based restorative justice in Northern Ireland: A neo-traditionalist paradigm?
by McGrattan, Cillian
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 12: 425-441. This article critically assesses the scholarly representation of community-based restorative justice (CBRJ) schemes in Northern Ireland. These schemes, which emerged in working-class areas following the...
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Forgiveness, commemoration, and restorative justice: The role of moral emotions.
by Blustein, Jeffrey
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Metaphilosophy. 41(4): 582-617. Forgiveness of wrongdoing in response to public apology and amends making seems, on the face of it, to leave little room for the continued commemoration of wrongdoing. This rests on a misunderstanding of forgiveness, however, and we can explain...
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We don’t want to hear it: Psychology, literature and the narrative model of judging.
by Bilz, Kenworthey
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) University of Illinois Law Review. 2010(2): 429-487. The currently dominant view of how people process evidence and draw conclusions is linear and Bayesian. Dissatisfaction with this model, as both a descriptive and normative matter, has emerged from across disciplines-...
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Circles of Support & Accountability (COSA): A reentry program for high-risk sex offenders.
by Muscat, Bernadette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ASC Annual Meeting, San Francisco Marriott, San Francisco, California . In 2006, Fresno County (California) applied for and received a grant from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to begin a Circles of...
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Circles of Support & Accountability: A Canadian national replication of outcome findings.
by McWhinnie, Andrew
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. 21(4): 412-430. Circles of Support & Accountability (COSA) started 15 years ago in Ontario, Canada, as an alternate means of social support to high-risk sexual offenders released at the end of their sentences without any...
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Circles of Support & Accountability: An innovative approach to manage high-risk sex offenders in the community.
by Wilson, Chris
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) The Open Criminology Journal. 3(48-57). Sex offenders cause particular concern upon release and are often received with apprehension or hostility by the community. This in turn may increase their feelings of loneliness and poor self-esteem hindering re-integration and...
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Circles of Support & Accountability: An evaluation of the pilot project in South-Central Ontario.
by Wilson, Robin J.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Ottowa: Correctional Services of Canada. Further, a considerable harm reduction function has been noted in the COSA sample, in that sexual reoffenses in this group were categorically less severe than prior offenses by the same individual. This function was not observed in the...
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Drawing together research, policy and practice for restorative justice.
by Gavrielides, Theo
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) London: Independent Academic Research Studies. The key aim of the IARS project is to initiate an international debate that will assist the development of improved practices, better informed policy and more grounded research on restorative justice. The project will lead to a...
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Judges’ attitudes about and experiences with sentencing circles in intimate-partner abuse cases.
by Belknap, Joanne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 52(4): 369-395. During the 1980s and 1990s, two important changes that occurred in criminal processing were seemingly at odds for intimate-partner abuse cases. The first was the move to treat gender-violence cases more...
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When SORI is not the hardest word.
by Shaw, Stephen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales. InsideTime. If you were to stop a hundred people in the street ask them what Restorative Justice means I suspect you would not get a very clear answer. It does not sound very snappy (not like ‘Law and Order’, or...
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The end of ‘the end of impunity’? The international criminal court and the challenge from truth commissions.
by von Holderstein Holtermann, Jakob
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Res Publica. 16:209–225. With its express intention ‘to put an end to impunity’, the International Criminal Court (ICC) faces a substantial challenge in the shape of conditional amnesties granted in future national truth commissions (TCs)—a challenge...
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Judging the ICTY: has it achieved its objectives?
by Clark, Janine Natalya
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 9(1-2): 123-142. This article offers an empirically grounded assessment of whether the ICTY has achieved its goals of delivering justice and of contributing to the restoration and maintenance of peace in the former Yugoslavia. This...
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Harm reduction and the American difference: Drug treatment and problem-solving courts in comparative perspective.
by Nolan Jr, James L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2010) Journal of Health Care Law and Policy. 13(31): 31-47. In my recent book, Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing, I examine the development of problem-solving courts in the United States and observe the process by which these courts have been exported to five other common law countries:...
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Getting tough or getting together: A model of engagement.
by Parker, Robyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Family Relationships Quarterly 13: 15-17. A group of professionals in the Wodonga region in north east Victoria have formed a partnership to deliver a unique model of improving young peoples’ engagement with school and the community and providing support services to their...
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