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In this paper the authors explore a variety of local and community restorative justice alternatives to retributive justice, including within an Asian context. Restorative justice is practiced in many forms throughout the region, from youth offending teams, juvenile justice panels, adult diversionary panels, through to family and community group conferences, healing and sentencing circles, restorative prisons and international truth and reconciliation councils. Restorative justice processes are applied throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas both within and outside of criminal justice jurisdictions where people desire effective and therapeutic interventions and where one party is able to provide a guilty or “not denied” plea and where victims of crime take the opportunity to participate.
Brian Steels PhD and Dot Goulding PhD have extensive experience in the training, delivery and practice of Community Group Conferencing and Circle Sentencing/Healing. They were both born in Post-WW2 Britain, have lived in Australia for over 40 years and see themselves as a part of the Asia Pacific Communities.
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Written statement by Chief Stipendiary Magistrate Steven Heath (2002) upon completion of the pilot restorative and transformative justice project carried out by Goulding & Steels in Court 37 Central Law Courts, Perth Western Australia; the Court over which he regularly presided.
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Steels, B., Goulding, D. (2013). Restorative Justice in the Asia Pacific Region: Acting Fairly, Being Just. In: Liu, J., Hebenton, B., Jou, S. (eds) Handbook of Asian Criminology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5218-8_25
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