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Restorative Justice & Responsive Regulation

By: John Braithwaite

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Restorative Justice & Responsive Regulation

By: John Braithwaite

Braithwaite's argument against punitive justice systems and for restorative justice systems establishes that there are good theoretical and empirical grounds for anticipating that well designed restorative justice processes will restore victims, offenders, and communities better than existing criminal justice practices. Counterintuitively, he also shows that a restorative justice system may deter, incapacitate, and rehabilitate more effectively than a punitive system. This is particularly true when the restorative justice system is embedded in a responsive regulatory framework that opts for deterrence only after restoration repeatedly fails, and incapacitation only after escalated deterrence fails. Braithwaite's empirical research demonstrates that active deterrence under the dynamic regulatory pyramid that is a hallmark of the restorative justice system he supports, is far more effective than the passive deterrence that is notable in the stricter "sentencing grid" of current criminal justice systems.

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336

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Oxford University Press

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0190285818

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9780190285814

A Great and Shining Road

The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad

By: John Hoyt Williams

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A Great and Shining Road

The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad

By: John Hoyt Williams

The Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were officially joined on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, with the driving of a golden spike. This historic ceremony marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Spanning the Sierras and the “Great American Desert,” the tracks connected San Francisco to Council Bluffs, Iowa. A Great and Shining Road is the exciting story of a mammoth feat that called forth entrepreneurial daring, financial wizardry, technological innovation, political courage and chicanery, and the heroism of thousands of laborers.

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390

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803297890

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9780803297890

Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

By: Richard Connors,John M. Law,University of Alberta. Centre for Constitutional Studies

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Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

By: Richard Connors,John M. Law,University of Alberta. Centre for Constitutional Studies

Forging Alberta’s Constitutional Framework analyzes the principal events and processes that precipitated the emergence and formation of the law and legal culture of Alberta from the foundation of the Hudson’s Bay in 1670 until the eve of the centenary of the Province in 2005. The formation of Alberta’s constitution and legal institutions was by no means a simple process by which English and Canadian law was imposed upon a receptive and passive population. Challenges to authority, latent lawlessness, interaction between indigenous and settler societies, periods (pre- and post-1905) of jurisdictional confusion, and demands for individual, group, and provincial rights and recognitions are as much part of Alberta’s legal history as the heroic and mythic images of an emergent and orderly Canadian west patrolled from the outset by red coated mounted police and peopled by peaceful and law-abiding subjects of the Crown. Papers focus on the development of criminal law in the Canadian west in the nineteenth century; the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement of 1930; the National Energy Program of the 1980s; Federal-Provincial relations; and the role and responsibilities of the offices of Justices of the Peace and of the Lieutenant-Governor; and the legacies of the Lougheed and Klein governments.

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575

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University of Alberta

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0888644574

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9780888644572

Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century

By: John Nichols

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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century

By: John Nichols

This eight-volume set, published 1817-58 by the Nichols family, is a sequel to John Nichols' Literary Anecdotes (1812-15), and provides a useful source of biographical material on authors and publishers at a time when many of the literary genres we now take for granted were first being developed.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108077382

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9781108077385

The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire

By: John M. Janzen,William Arkinstall

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The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire

By: John M. Janzen,William Arkinstall

In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many peoples elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. What criteria, he asks, determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional interrelationship? In seeking answers, he analyzes case histories and cultural contexts to explore what social transactions, decisionmaking, illness and therapy classifications, and resource allocations are used in the choice of therapy by the ill, their kinfolk, friends, asociates, and specialized practitioners. From the Preface: This book presents an "on the ground" ethnographic account of how medical clients of one region of Lower Zaire diagnose illness, select therapies, and evaluate treatments, a process we call "therapy management." The book is intended to clarify a phenomenon of which central African clients have long been cognizant, namely, that medical systems are used in combination. Our study is aimed primarily at readers interested in the practical issues of medical decision-making in an African country, the cultural content of symptoms, and the dynamics of medical pluralism, that is, the existence in a single society of differently designed and conceived medical systems.

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308

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Univ of California Press

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0520032950

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9780520032958

A New Companion to Digital Humanities

By: Susan Schreibman,Ray Siemens,John Unsworth

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A New Companion to Digital Humanities

By: Susan Schreibman,Ray Siemens,John Unsworth

A New Companion to Digital Humanities offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this dynamic and burgeoning field"--Provided by publisher.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118680626

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9781118680629

Book's by John R. Duff

Restorative Justice & Responsive Regulation

Restorative Justice & Responsive Regulation

A Great and Shining Road

A Great and Shining Road

Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century

Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century

The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire

The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire

A New Companion to Digital Humanities

A New Companion to Digital Humanities

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