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Of Hard Copy Library At RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INDEX of MATERIALS BELONGING TO FWM MCELREA HELD AT VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTRE JUDGE FWM MCELREA V O L U M E 1 1 Seminar notes - 1992, Advanced Criminal Law Class. 2 Typed transcript of that Seminar 3 Legal Research Foundation - Order Form : "The Youth Court in New Zealand" 1993 and copy of FWM McElrea paper therein. 4 1993 New Zealand Law Conference : Speech Notes 5 Transcript of New Zealand Law Conference Session 6 Article " The place of negotiated settlement with adult offenders" - from New Zealand Law Conference newspaper. 7 Notes for Advanced Criminal Law Session - 29 March 1993 8 Letter from Cambridge for Te Rangatahi 9 Notes for Guest Seminar 20 October 1993, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge 10 The Intent of the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989 - Restorative Justice? Paper for Youth Justice Conference, 25 February 1994 11 Restorative Justice - The New Zealand Youth Court: A Model for Development in other Courts? Paper for National Conference of District Court Judges, 6-9 April 1994. 12 "By Their Fruits - A future for Restorative Justice" - National District Court Judges' Conference, Rotorua - 6 April 1994 (Rev. Jim Consedine) 13 Comments at Restorative Justice Session, Rotorua 14 "The Role of the Judge" - Seminar in Criminal Law and Policy, 30 May 1994 15 Community Group Conference Report of Douglas Mansill, 3 June 1994. 16 Letter from Douglas Mansill - 30 June 1994, re Community Group Conference system. 17 "Stimulus" - May 1994 issue with Hakiaha article on decision making, and conference preview. 18 Material re Zehr/Justice Department meeting, Wellington 21 June 1994. 2 19 Material re Zehr/Department of Social Welfare meeting, Grey Lynn, 26 June 1994. 20 Criminal Bar Association - material from Forum of 24 June 1994 - Zehr/McElrea/Mansill. 21 Vorp Organizing - A Foundation in the Church - paper supplied by Zehr. 22 Poem "Prisons" by Judge D A Challeen - supplied by Zehr. 23 Intercessions for St George's, Epsom, Auckland - 26 June 1994 24 An assessment of the impact of Howard Zehr's visit to New Zealand for Mennonite Central Committee - June 1994 25 Letter to The Right Reverend Bruce Gilberd - 31 July 1994 26 Chapter 7, Justice in the Community : The New Zealand Experience (final edition) for book on Relational Justice. 27 New material from second and third drafts of chapter 7 of Cambridge book 28 An assessment of the impact of Howard Zehr's visit to New Zealand, June 1994 - written for "Stimulus" edition of August 1994 29 "A Victim's Perspective" - from Te Rangatahi - Issue 5, June/July 1994 30 "Stimulus" - Special issue with papers from June Conference - Vol 2, Issue 3, August 1994 31 Lawtalk 420, 22 August 1994 article about Zehr. 32 Address to the 8th International Symposium on Victimology, Adelaide "Empowering the Victim in the New Zealand Youth Justice Process - A strategy for Healing" by Judge MJA Brown 33 Report of Zehr's visit to New Zealand in The Mennonite, 23 August 1994. 34 Newspaper articles from Howard Zehr 35 Sentencing of Children in New Zealand : A New Direction by Marie Dhyrberg, paper for Criminal Law Congress, Sydney, September 1994. 36 Criminal Justice Quarterly - 1994 Issue 8 37 Criminal Justice Quarterly - 1994 Issue 9 38 New Zealand Herald article 4.10.94 re unusual request from a jury. 39 Northern Advocate article 6.9.94 "Tradition of forgiveness keeps island jails emptier" 40 Material from Judge MJA Brown - 20 September 1994 - re South Africa and Canada. 3 41 "Public Sector" - vol 17 No 3, September 1994 - abridged version of FWMM April 1994 article. 42 Forward by Judge MJA Brown for Consedine book on Restorative Justice. 43 "Pacific Way" article on Judge MJA Brown - "A Vision of Justice". 44 "Lawtalk" 424 - 25 October 1994 "Lawyers in youth justice; balancing role" - article by Helen Bowen. 45 Hui - Onetahua Marae - 1 October 1994 Address by Judge Peter McAloon V O L U M E 2 46 New Zealand Law Society, paper on Restorative Justice (Adopted by NZLS Board) 47 The Te Atatu Maori Tribunal: Community participation and support of the formal court system, New Zealand by Judge MJA Brown (about 1986?) 48 Auckland District Law Society - Public Issues Committee "Coddling the Crims? (Grant Illingworth, Convenor) November 1994. 49 Northern Law News - November 18 1994 - article re cost of justice in United Kingdom. 50 Copy letter to Judge MJA Brown, 11 November 1994 from Judge Harvey. (Containing ABA Journal article "In Search of Justice" and "Silence and self- incrimination protections in the Children and Young Persons and Their Families Act" by Judge Harvey.) 51 Course material on victim-offender dispute resolution, University of Technology, Sydney. Mark S Hurst, 20 September 1994. 52 Paper by Andrew Commons, re exploratory model for alternative penal justice system. September 1994. 53 Material re Canadian Sentencing Circles from Judge BD Stuart of Yukon, 21 October 1994. 54 G. Maxwell on Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand: "Criminology Aotearoa/New Zealand" October 1994 No. 2. and "Children" No. 14. 55 "Three Strikes' law foolish" - article in New Zealand Hereld by Jim Consedine, 22 December 1994. 56 Youth Justice Statistics 1986-1994 from Te Rangatahi #7 October/November 1994 57 "Conviction and Sentencing of Offenders in New Zealand: 1984-1993" Department of Justice, November 1994. 4 58 "Can victims be included in the justice system?" Article in Law Institute Journal, November 1994 59 "Relational Justice: A reform dynamic for criminal jusitce" - Justice Policy Group, November 1994 60 "Shoplifters caught by mother" New Zealand Herald item 24 December 1994 61 "Reform mentality" - article by Peter Dunne MP, 11 January 1995 62 Funding Youth Justice - two articles by G. Maxwell in "Children No. 15" (December 1995 63 Report on UK Victim-Offender Mediation, 1994, Maureen Shadbold 64 Public attitudes toward crime and criminal justice (Angela Lee) ex Criminal Justice Quarterly #8 1994 65 Cuttings/article re alleged increase in youth violence - January 1995 66 "A Maori Criminal Justice System": Moana Jackson (Race, Gender, Class No.9/10, December 1989 p.30) 67 "Feel good talks won't stop young thugs and rapists" a "broadside" by Rosemary McLeod, 2 March 1995 (also her Dominion articles, 27 and 28 April) 68 Restorative Justice Table and Resource List (March 1995) 69 Notes for High Court Judges session on Restorative Justice - 10.3.95 70 Youth Court Judges' National Conference - Auckland 16-18 March 1995 - Questions for Discussion. 71 Letter and report from NZ Fire Service re Youth Liaison Project, 1 February 1995 72 Letter to NZ Herald re Human Rights Act, 15 March 1995 73 Julia Leibrich chapter on the role of shame in "going straight" 74 Greg Newbold review of Consedine book, The Press, 11 March 1995 (and other articles re same) 75 Biblical quotations about justice 76 Howard Zehr on accountability - excerpt from video on restorative justice 77 Decision of Williamson J re Youth Court as a Restorative Justice System - R.E. v Police, 2 March 1995 78 five Pamphlets by Ruth Morris, Toronto, 1994. 79 Saskatoon Restorative Justice Conference, March, 1995, reports by (a) Ruth Morris and (b) conference organisers 5 80 "Reconciliation by a Criminal Court in a Multi-Racial Society", Judge Bremner's submission to the Royal Commission on the Courts, 1978 81 Draft Case Note regarding Community Group Conference of James E. Boyack, Solicitor. 82 Letter from Wayne Northey (4 April 1995), Letter to Canadian MPs (12 October 1994), "Update A jour" magazine (Fall 1994), "Accord" magazine (February 1995) 83 Newspaper article from Sunday Star Times, 23 April 1995 "Funding threat to criminal reforms. 84 "Beyond the Sovereign State" - Modern Law Review article by Neil MacCormick - January 1993, volume 56 No.1, page 1 85 Article "Developing reparation plans through victim offender mediation by New Zealand probation officers" by Bernard Jervis 1995 86 "Strategy for Community Conferences: Emotions and Social Bonds" by Susanne M. Retzinger and Thomas J. Scheff (March 14, 1995) 87 "Youth in Focus" - Police strategic plan programme sponsored by Telecom, launched April 1995 88 Letter from Judge RR Kearney dated 26 April 1995 re "Community Corrections Programme - Coromandel/Hauraki/Waihi Area" and minutes of Justice Department - Community Corrections Meeting dated 22 February 1995 89 Article written following telephone interview with Rob Drent - Sunday Star-Times, May 14 1995. 90 Christian Democrats Policy Outline on Law and Order [including restorative justice] as launched by their party on 9 May 1995. 91 Full paper for the Legal Research Foundation Conference, 12 and 13 May 1995 (plus old pages 1 and 2 with errors in footnotes) 91A Synopsis of May 1995 paper. 91B Legislation, Articles and Cases of note up to June 1998. Memo to Chief Judge Young and Principal Family Court Judge P Mahony from Research Counsel to Chief Judge. 91C Short propositions (framework) for LRF paper. May 1995. V O L U M E 3 92 Articles from NZ Herald, Friday May 12 1995, and Waikato Times, 17 May 1995 (interviews with Tony Marshall). 93 Article from the National Business Review, May 26, "ADR catches like wild fire for legal profession". 6 94 Notes for Prisoners Aid and Rehab Society AGM 19.6.95. 95 Article from "Children" March 1995, No. 16, "Visiting Refugee Camps in the Gaza Strip". 96 Comments of Dr Allison Morris at NZCYPS/Police Conference, Hamilton, 28 June 1995 in session on Victims. 97 "Children in Crime: Representation - Fact or Fallacy?" by Marie Dyhrberg, Edinburgh 10-13 June 1995. 98 Letter FWM McElrea to Professor John Braithwaite dated 18 June 1995 re his pyramid of outcomes. 99 "Circles into Squares Systems: Can Community Processes be Partnered with the Formal Justice System?" by Judge Barry Stuart (Draft - 1 May 1995) 100 "Circle Sentencing.
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