Library Catalogue

Location

Public Safety Canada Library

Resource

Books & Reports

Alternate Title

La transformation des rapports humains par la justice participative.

Call Number

Internet

Authors

• Law Commission of Canada.

Publishers

• Ottawa :  Law Commission of Canada, c2003.

Bibliography

Bibliography: p. 219-246.

Description

xxiv, 246 p. ; 25 cm.

Note

Issued also in French under title: La transformation des rapports humains par la justice participative.
Companion DVD issued by National Film Board of Canada under the title: Community mediation: two real-life experiences.

Summary

This report described the development and current state of two groups of participatory justice programs. Restorative justice is a process of resolving crime and conflict, and includes victim-offender mediation, community and family group conferencing, sentencing circles and community boards or panels. Consensus-based justice operates in the non-criminal context, and includes community mediation, court-connected mediation, judge-led settlement conferencing, and collaborative family lawyering.

Subject

• Dispute resolution (Law) - Canada.
• Justice, Administration of - Canada.
• Restorative justice - Canada.
• Mediation - Canada.
• Community-based corrections - Canada.
• Sentencing circles (Native peoples) - Canada.

Contents

1. Introduction. -- 2. Participatory justice in criminal law: restorative justice. -- 3. Participatory justice in a non-criminal context: consensus-based justice. -- 4. Restorative justice and consensus based justice: common elements, critiques and concerns. -- 5. Towards participatory justice. -- 6. Designing and evaluating models of participatory justice. -- 7. Balancing the role of government and community autonomy. -- 8. Recommendations.