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Aboriginal
Web Links
This web site offers links to native and aboriginal people around
the world. The value of the link is that by learning more about the
native or aboriginal peoples we may learn more about the purpose, and
value of a community and restorative justice approach to justice. The
links lead to other pages where you will have to explore for information
about the tribes and their approach to justice.
Australian
Institute of Criminology
This site provides much information about eh way that restorative justice
is implemented in Australia. One controversial approach, reintegrative
shaming experiments are discussed.
Boston
Theological Institute
This site provides information about restorative justice and some links.
How can the paradigm of restorative justice help us re-envision our
legal system and how, with its emphasis on forgiveness, might it help
us deal with the theological/religious element in conflicts. Growing
out of the BTI’s four year series on conflict and reconciliation, a
series of conferences is planned for 1999 to engage members of the legal
and religious professions in dialogue so as to better understand the
meaning of restorative justice and its intersection with forgiveness
and reconciliation.
Campaign
for Equity-Restorative Justice
This site is a general purpose informational site about restorative
juste. It provides basic information and discusses what individuals
can do to support the implementation of restorative justice programs.
This site provides a wealth of general information about restorative
justice.
Satisfying
Justice, Church Council on Justice and Corrections (Canada)
Corrections Services of Canada. Go to their home page and then search
for restorative justice. You will find a wealth of information. The
Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), as part of the criminal justice
system and respecting the rule of law, contributes to the protection
of society by actively encouraging and assisting offenders to become
law-abiding citizens, while exercising reasonable, safe, secure and
humane control.
Community
Courts
This site provides much information about community courts, how they
operate and other information and resources concerning community courts.
Provides information about moving toward community-based courts.
Corrections
Publications - Solicitor General of (Canada)
This site provides a search capability for much of the available reasearch
concerning corrections, restorative justice and other programs in Canada.
Canada has done much research in the area of criminal justice and I
recommend this site.
Center
for Restorative Justice & Mediation
The site provides a listing of resources, training available, people
to contact, information about balanced and restorative justice and connects
to other sites.
Center
for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Violence in America has reached epidemic proportions. Today, all Americans
are touched directly or indirectly by violent acts. In response, the
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) was founded in
1992 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to provide
informed assistance to groups committed to understanding and preventing
violence, particularly adolescent violence. Since that time, our mission
has expanded to encompass violence across the life course.
In an effort to establish more complete and valuable information to impact violence-related policies, programs, and practices, CSPV works from a multi-disciplinary platform on the subject of violence and facilitates the building of bridges between the research community and the practitioners and policy makers. CSPV has a threefold mission. First, the Information House serves to collect research literature and resources on the causes and prevention of violence and provides direct information services to the public by offering topical searches on customized databases. Second, CSPV offers technical assistance for the evaluation and development of violence prevention programs.
Third, CSPV maintains a basic research component through data analysis and other projects on the causes of violence and the effectiveness of prevention and intervention programs.
Colorado
School Mediation Project
The Colorado School Mediation Project (CSMP), founded in 1987, is a
regional nonprofit organization with national connections which is dedicated
to creating safe, caring and just communities where conflicts are resolved
productively and differences are valued.
We believe that for school communities to be effective, they need:
to work collaboratively;
to emphasize building social and emotional skills; to teach and model skills for living in a democracy; to see conflict as a key part of growth and learning; and to realize that the free expression of ideas in a productive, respectful environment is a critical preventive element for many social problems.
CSMP works with educators, administrators, youth organizations and school communities to design, implement and evaluate a conflict resolution education program for their site.
CSMP has worked with over 12,500 students and 5000 educators through our workshops, trainings and conferences.
Conflict
Research Consortium
The Conflict Research Consortium is a multidisciplinary program of research,
teaching, and application, focused on finding more constructive ways
of addressing difficult, long-term, and intractable conflicts, and getting
that information to the people involved in these conflicts so that they
can approach them in a more constructive way. A joint university-community
program, the Consortium unites researchers, educators, and practitioners
from many fields for the purposes of theory-building, testing, disseminating,
and applying new conflict management techniques. These efforts are designed
to lead to an improved understanding of conflict dynamics, along with
better methods for confronting and managing intractable conflicts and
reaching good decisions.
Crime
Victims and Restorative Justice in Juvenile Courts: Judges as Obstacle
or Leader?
Gordon Bazemore, Western Criminology Review. This article discusses
the role of restorative justice in the juvenile justice system and the
findings about judicial support and resistance to the idea of the victim
as a "client" of juvenile justice and a co-participation in the justice
process.
Fresno Pacific University - Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies
This site offers resources for evaluation, links and other information. Restorative Justice Project (RJP) is a program of the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies (PACS) at Fresno Pacific University. RJP emerged in 1993 in response to a request from leaders in the VORP and Restorative Justice fields for a resource and training center.
Minnesota
Department of Corrections - Restorative Justice
Restorative justice is a new framework for the criminal justice system
that is rapidly gaining acceptance and support by criminal justice professionals
and community groups in Minnesota and across the nation. The Minnesota
Department of Corrections advocates adoption of restorative justice
principles and has established a department unit that supports implementation
of restorative justice concepts throughout the state. This statewide
effort involves all aspects of the community including schools, churches,
courts, corrections and law enforcement agencies, and citizens.
National
Center for Victims of Crime
The mission of the National Center for Victims of Crime is to forge
a national commitment to help victims of crime rebuild their lives.
They are dedicated to serving individuals, families and communities
harmed by crime. Through collaboration with local, state and federal
partners, they:
Provide direct services and resources;
Advocate laws and public policies that create resources and secure rights and protection for victims;
Deliver training and technical assistance to victim service providers and allied professionals;
and Foster cutting edge thinking about the impact of crime and the ways in which each of us can help victims regain control of their lives.
The site provides information about victims, victims issues, and programs.
National
Community Building Network
This site provides information about building community and some ideas
of ways to be inclusive and gain involvement of others. One critical
element of community and restorative justice is community involvement,
in fact without it we are more than wasting our time.
Real
Justice
This site offers a wide variety of information about restorative justice,
including conferences, papers, additional sources of information and
some publications for purchase. The links to articles about restorative
justice are valuable and informative.
Restorative
Justice, Healing The Effects of Crime, by Tom Cavanagh
The site provides information about Tom Cavanagh, some dialogue papers,
a case study, a bulletin board and other information. Tom writes that,
"My deepest passion for restorative justice comes from working in the
courtroom for 25 years as a court reporter. The numbers of people affected
by our criminal justice system are not a statistic to me, but the faces
of real people. I am deeply concerned that our present justice system
creates a spiral of involvement for the poor, mentally ill, and minorities
and is losing the confidence of the public. I was privileged to work
in the tribal courts of the Blackfeet and Flathead Indians in Montana.
I was honored to be the first live court reporter utilized in a tribal
court in the United States and recorded cases which eventually established
the sovereignty of Indian nations." Visit and explore this site. He
provides some valuable information. Among other services he has a book
review section and a section on conferences. Tom is from Ft. Collins,
Colorado.
Restorative
Justice Principles, Ron Classen
This site provides an overview of one individual's view of the principles
of restorative justice. You may agree or disagree with some of his ideas,
but it is a good place to start you, and others thinking about what
RJ means.
Victim
Offender Mediation Association
To develop and implement a program of public information and education
in the field of victim offender mediation and reconciliation programs...To
make available a variety of program development and mediation training
materials...To encourage networking among members and the larger justice
and conflict resolution communities, including the convening of international
and regional conferences...To assist members in planning and operating
programs more effectively by developing guidelines for program management
and facilitating the useful exchange of information among its membership...To
promote and advocate as a unified group for legislation and public policies
which enhance opportunities for restorative justice and other issues
relating directly to victim offender mediation and reconciliation programs.
Victim-Offender
Reconciliation Program (VORP)
The VORP Information and Resource Center provides much information on
mediation, training, community conferences, assistance and their services.
One article at the site is: "Mediated Civil Compromise - A Tool for
Restorative Justice", by Marty Price, J.D. This article is directed
at attorneys. Take a look at the site.