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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822090603321

Autore

Bazemore S. Gordon

Titolo

Juvenile justice reform and restorative justice : building theory and policy from practice / / Gordon Bazemore and Mara Schiff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cullompton, U.K. ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Willan, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-01778-2

1-134-01771-5

1-282-25221-6

9786612252211

1-84392-636-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

364.680973

Soggetti

Juvenile justice, Administration of - United States

Restorative justice - United States

Juvenile corrections - United States

Community-based corrections - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-374) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Restorative justice, restorative group conferencing, and juvenile justice -- Principles to practice: intermediate outcomes, intervention theories, and conferencing tasks -- Prevalence and scope of restorative decision-making: findings from a national inventory and survey on restorative conferencing for youth -- Methodology for the qualitative study and description of conference stages and phases -- Repairing harm in the conferencing environment -- Stakeholder involvement in the conferencing environment -- Community/government relationship and role transformation -- Looking back and moving forward: conclusions, implications, and an agenda for future research.

Sommario/riassunto

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 United States, paying particular attention to the qualitative dimensions of this, based on interviews, focus groups and ethnographic observation. It provides an unrivalled 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