Models, Challenges and The Promise of Restorative Conferencing Strategies

Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice: Competing or Reconcilable Paradigms?

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 315-338

  Schiff, Mara ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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