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Criminals could cut sentences by saying ‘sorry’
from the article by Anushka Asthana and Jamie Doward in The Observer: Tens of thousands of offenders may be able to reduce their sentences by making ...
Healing in a hard place
from the article by Naseem Rakha in the Sunday Oregonian: How do people heal from violent crime? How do they mend after a rape or assault, or after losing a ...
Yarcheck, Courtney M. and Rhine, Edward E and Partridge, Charles R and Yarcheck, Courtney M. and Gavazzi, Stephen M and Rhine, Edward E. Building Bridges Between the Parole Officer and the Families of Serious Juvenile Offenders: A Preliminary Report on a Family-Based Parole Program
Responding to a model of juvenile offender case supervision that called for a new intervention paradigm to guide the work of probation and parole officers, the ...
Grenfell, Dale Mary. Restorative Justice at Work: Juvenile Parole Board
In this article, Dale Mary Grenfell profiles the work of the Colorado State Juvenile Parole Board. The parole board itself does not have a restorative justice ...
Trevethan, Shelley and McWhinnie, Andrew. Restorative justice options to parole suspension with federally sentenced adults in Canada: An approach to evaluation
Shelley Trevethan is a researcher in Correctional Services Canada. Andrew McWhinnie works with Victoria Parole in British Columbia, Canada. They report on a ...
Monroe, Norm and Taylor, Scott and O'Connor, Thomas P and Monroe, Norm and McKenna, Rick and Taylor, Scott and Cayton, Tim and O'Connor, Thomas P. Home for Good in Oregon: A Community, Faith and State Re-entry Partnership to Increase Restorative Justice
In the United States, faith-based prison initiatives are the subject of considerable public attention and debate. Proponents and critics wrestle over issues of ...
Kirkegaard, Hugh. Restorative Justice and the Halfway House: Where Hope and History Rhyme?
This article in Coast to Coast was first presented by the Reverend Hugh Kirkegaard as an address at the 30th anniversary annual general meeting of St. ...
John Howard Society of Manitoba. Backgrounder: The Restorative Parole Project
The Restorative Parole Project is a pilot project of the John Howard Society (JHS) of Manitoba, a community justice organization. A voluntary, non-profit ...
Doerfler, David. Victim Offender Dialogue: Healing on a Deeper Level
Crime harms both the victim and the offender in many ways, including material and emotional forms. According to David Doerfler, long experienced in providing ...
Newell, Tim. Restorative Justice in Prisons: The Possibility of Change
Tim Newell served as a prison governor in England for over three decades. Retired from the Prison Service, he now works as a restorative justice facilitator. ...
Blomquist, Todd. Restorative Justice – Reflections on Dialogue
At the time of writing this reflection, Todd Blomquist was a resident of the Restorative Justice Unit at Grande Cache Institution, Alberta, Canada. Here he ...
Kelly, Russell. Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program – In the Beginning
Russell Kelly is now a restorative justice practitioner in Kitchener, Ontario. In 1974 he was a teenager who, with a friend, both under the influence of ...
Peters, Carol Anderson. Transforming and Restorative Justice and the Churches, vol. 1: Creating Healing Environments in Prisons
Psychological and spiritual healing techniques inform the creation of healing environments in prisons that promote moral and social development in inmates, and ...
Sedgwick, Peter. Rethinking sentencing: a contribution to the debate.
For all these reasons it is appropriate that another report should be commissioned by the Church of England’s Mission and Public Affairs Council. Rethinking ...
Kearney, Niall. Issues of affecting victims of severe violence in the context of RJ in Scotland.
SACRO (Safeguarding Communities Reducing Offending) is the largest NGO (non governmental organisation) operating in the criminal justice sector in Scotland. ...
Editor. Released Sex offenders: Circles of support or a drive out of town?
Near the top of any list of concerns for citizens is the return to the community of sex offenders whose warrants of committal have expired and who can no ...
Parliament of New Zealand . Parole Act 2002.
Section 7: Guiding Principles When making decisions about, or in any way relating to, the release of an offender, one of the principles that must guide the ...
Prisons in the sky
by Dan Van Ness One of the persistent themes in penology has been the idea that architecture can help produce transformation in people. From the ...
Create an apology letter online
Walker, Lorenn. Modified restorative circles: a reintegration group planning process that promotes desistance .
This article describes the Modified Circle process and its potential for increasing criminal desistance with the aim of influencing corrections programs to use ...
Africville apology is a start, not an end
from Mike Barber's entry on Internet Health Info: This week's apology by city of Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly, for the evictions and razing of the ...
Vazulla, Juan Carlos. The participation of the community representative in mediation involving youth perpetrators
In Brazil, the juvenile justice system includes victim-offender mediation. Now they have added a third mediator into those meetings: one that represents the ...
How should we treat apologies in criminal law?
Should it make a difference if a criminal defendant apologizes in court? That question raises many others. 1. A difference to whom: the judge, the ...
Apology lite: Truths, doubts, and reconciliations in the Senate’s guarded apology for slavery
from Kaimipono David Wenger's article in Connecticut Law Review CONNections: The United States Senate formally apologized for slavery on June 18, 2009. This ...
Hook, Melissa And Seymour, Anne. Offender reentry requires attention to victim safety
In this article Hook and Seymour address issues concerning the rights and safety of victims when offenders leave prison and reenter societ
Workman, Kim. The Future of Restorative Justice – Control, Co-option, and Co-operation
This paper explores the history of restorative justice in New Zealand and lays out a course for the future.
Petrunik, Michael. American and Canadian Approaches to Sex Offenders: A Study of the Politics of Dangerousness.
In this Article, we describe and attempt to account for differences between American and Canadian approaches to managing the dangerousness of sex offenders, ...
Muhammad and the 'closure' myth
from Naseem Rakha's column in the Washington Post: ....In the past decade, 24 U.S. prisons have begun victim-offender dialogue programs. These programs give ...
Restorative justice from a survivor's perspective
by Penny Beerntsen Note: this article originally appeared as a comment responding to a posting by Lisa Rea. We were concerned that many readers may have ...
Three-year research project on mediation and restorative justice in prison settings
from the flyer announcing the project: The Mediation and Restorative Justice in Prison Settings Project is a three year international exchange project ...
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