Restorative justice practices such as victim-offender dialogue (VOD) have gained traction in
the past few decades as routes towards healing amidst high incarceration and recidivism …

ABSTRACT 'Restorative justice'(RJ) has been a popular notion in Canada. A common belief
has been that ''western approaches' to RJ are compatible with that of Canada's Aboriginals. I …

Based on Goffman's notion of people performing contextually preferred identities, a
qualitative study of victim–offender mediation shows that the roles adopted in mediation …

Mass incarceration is one of the key societal issues facing the US today. While numerous
factors have contributed to this problem, a major one is the punitive approach of our criminal …

In recent decades, restorative justice has come to occupy an accepted part of many criminal
justice landscapes across the Western world. Scholars have therefore attempted to make …

Religion plays a significant role in the way Western societies respond to criminal offenses.
However, the research on how religion plays a role in handling the challenges of crime in …

This book summarises the latest findings of Australian and international crime prevention
researchers and suggests how future policies based upon their evidence could and should …

The modem restorative justice movement is regularly tied to the past. Many practitioners and
advocates, this author included,'often cite to existing systems of justice around the world as …

The US is the world's “leading jailer” with both the highest incarceration rate and the largest
number of prisoners. Each year more than 700,000 inmates are released from prison and re …

The “best interests of the child”(BIC) is the most referenced child rights principle in
international law, whereas juvenile justice is the most mentioned topic. This paper examines …