Juvenile Justice Reform and Restorative Justice

ISBN-13: 9781843920953 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 386 str.

Gordon Bazemore; S. Gordon Bazemore; Mara Schiff

Opis

During the 1990s restorative justice emerged as an international movement for criminal justice reform, and a number of countries adopted policies encouraging or requiring the use of restorative justice practices as an alternative or in addition to adversarial court proceedings. By 2001, almost every state in the US had begun to experiment with restorative justice practices. This book, based on a large-scale research project funded by the National Institute of Justice and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides an overview of the restorative justice conferencing programs currently in operation in the US, paying particular attention to the qualitative dimensions of this, based on interviews, focus groups and ethnographic observation. It provides an unrivaled view of restorative justice conferencing in practice, and what the people involved felt and thought about it. The book looks at four structural variations in the face-to-face form of restorative decision-making: family group con

Spis treści

Foreword by Joe Hudson and Dennis Maloney  Introduction  1. Restorative justice, restorative group conferencing, and juvenile justice  2. Principles to practice: intermediate outcomes, intervention theories, and conferencing tasks  3. Prevalence and scope of restorative decision-making: findings from a national inventory and survey on restorative conferencing for youth  4. Methodology for the qualitative study and description of conference stages and phases  5. Repairing harm in the conferencing environment  6. Stakeholder involvement in the conferencing environment  7. Community/government relationship and role transformation  8. Looking back and moving forward: conclusions, implications, and an agenda for future research.  Appendix