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Restorative Policing Experiment: The Bethlehem Pennsylvania Police Family Group Conferencing Project
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- Written by Paul McCold, Benjamin Wachtel
Full 150-page final report from an experimental study of conferencing by police in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (PDF), funded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice.
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- Written by IIRP
This survey was developed for the Bethlehem Restorative Policing Experiment (PDF). It is a combination of two sets of scales reported reliable in previously published studies and two sets of scales found reliable in the Bethlehem Experiment. The survey measures police attitudes and is intended as a pre-test before implementing a change program and again as a post-test at least 12 months later.
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Evaluation forms used in the Bethlehem Restorative Policing Experiment (PDF). Includes: Conference Observation Form, Facilitator Data Sheet, Post-Conference Offender Questionnaire, Post-Conference Victim Questionnaire, Post-Conference Offender''s Parent Questionnaire, Post-Court Offender Questionnaire, Post-Court Victim Questionnaire, Post-Court Offender''s Parent Questionnaire.
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- Written by Central City Neighborhoods Partnership
A report on the Central City Neighborhoods Partnership conferencing project, Minneapolis the first neighborhood-operated conferencing program, and the first to deal with adult offenders in an urban setting.
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- Written by Donald Nathanson
Adaptation of an article by Donald Nathanson, Executive Director of the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. Introduces the affect theory of Silvan Tomkins and its relation to conferencing.
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- Written by James Zion
By James Zion, Northern Arizona University. Discusses the traditional Navajo approach to resolving disputes and responding to criminal behavior.
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- Written by Paul McCold, Benjamin Wachtel
Paper presented to the International Conference on Justice Without Violence: Views from Peacemaking Criminology and Restorative Justice, Albany, New York, June 5-7, 1997, by Paul McCold and Benjamin Wachtel, Community Service Foundation.
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- Written by Murray Sinclair
Paper by Hon. Murray Sinclair presented at the "2nd International Conference on Conferencing and Circles", August 10-12, 2000, Toronto, Canada.
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- Written by Paul McCold, John Stahr
Preliminary results presented to the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 20-23, 1996.
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- Written by John Braithwaite
Paper by Australian criminologist John Braithwaite, author of "Crime, Shame and Reintegration". Forthcoming in Dalhousie Law Review.
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