Most of the existing literature on correctional officer job satisfaction examines factors such as leadership, job environment, stress, and the enduring struggle between the keepers and the kept. This study examined the perceived effect of ―care‖ from coworkers on the work of correctional officers. Care is defined as the expression of interest by one or others in another’s life outside of the sc...

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Offender rehabilitation, pitting the rational ability of criminal justice against the seeming irrationality of criminal behavior, remains controversial. Psychology highlights the importance of emotions in mediating individual behavior. Borrowing from restorative justice as a more emotionally intelligent form of justice, this article examines the role of shame and guilt in a domestic violence of...

the united nations has a multiplex criminal policy to fight against genocide, judicial criminal policy being one of the aspects of this policy. rationally, justice requires that the guilty of genocidal acts be punished, the means of redress be provided for victims of such crimes and finally, the international peace and security be established. un judicial criminal policy regarding genocide is r...

Deanne Fitzgerald is currently acting as Aboriginal Service Design Officer with the Department for Community Development. Deanne's job involves the development of Aboriginal specific services in Western Australia. Hector O'loughlin Hector is a Wongi/Noongar man having links to the SouthWest Goldfields area of Western Australia. He is presently the Senior Mediation Officer with the Aboriginal Al...

Given the difficulty of obtaining criminal justice data on child abuse cases, information from child advocacy centers could be an important resource for answering questions about criminal justice outcomes for child abuse cases. In this exploratory study, we use data from one child advocacy center (N = 632) to examine the feasibility of using NCAtrak, a national computerized, Web-based case trac...

It has been argued that empirical science undermines the claim that people can deserve punishment, and that the criminal justice system therefore ought to be radically reformed. Such arguments lose their force if moral responsibility and desert do not depend on what caused the action, but on the agent’s choice. We solve one problem for the justification of the criminal justice system, but creat...

While mentoring programs are generally well received interventions, research indicates mixed results in terms of their impact. Nearly everyone is familiar with the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America organization and likely has positive attitudes toward their programs which started forming as early as 1904. Success of mentoring programs is, however, often contingent upon the program design and ...