The Rise and Fall of RCMP Community Justice Forums: Restorative Justice and Public Safety Interoperability in Canada

Deukmedjian, John Edward

doi:10.3138/cjccj.50.2.117

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“…Or are they really just tools of state coercion “deployed by central governance to buttress a national mandate” through a cost‐effective rhetoric of family responsibility and self‐care? (Deukmedjian :135). In the remainder of this article, we offer some insight into these debates, first, through an analysis of some of the assumptions about the multicultural family that the act encodes, and, second, through ethnographic accounts of how one of its groups of intended beneficiaries functions in practice.…”

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When the State Tries to See Like a Family: Cultural Pluralism and the Family Group Conference in New Zealand

Cohen

Gershon

2015

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In 1989 New Zealand legislators revised their child welfare legislation, partially in response to Māori and Pacific Island critiques that the previous state‐centered regime had failed to take into account their culturally distinctive techniques for being a family and had failed to support culturally specific practices of decision making and conflict resolution. Legislators instituted a new and increasingly popular form of alternative dispute resolution—the family group conference—in an attempt to create a bureaucratic response to family dysfunction that was capacious enough to allow for any and every family's involvement. In the process, however, they continued to understand what counts as a family along nuclear family lines. Against the New Zealand lawmakers’ assumptions, this article illustrates how, in the context of transnational migration, Samoan families experience tensions between the nuclear family unit that lawmakers envision and their lived extended kinship groups. As extended families, Samoan migrant families’ goal is not to produce socially productive citizens for the nation‐state, but rather to produce a transnational family reputation. Thus, despite the legislators’ efforts to create culturally sensitive forms for family conflict resolution, Samoan social workers and community counselors had to translate the legislative act for Samoan families, negotiating and managing the conflicting presuppositions of what it means to be a nuclear family embedded in the act and what it means to be an extended family for Samoans.

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Section: Governing Through Families: Debates About the Family Group Cmentioning

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When the State Tries to See Like a Family: Cultural Pluralism and the Family Group Conference in New Zealand

Cohen

Gershon

2015

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“…Of particular interest to scholars are private contract security firms (Lippert and O'Connor 2006;Huey and Rosenberg 2004) and community-based policing models (Deukmedjian 2008;Johnston 2003). Scholars are also concerned about the impacts of policing networks on traditional accountability structures (Loader 2000;Bayley and Shearing 1996).…”

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Occupy Ottawa, Conservation Officers, and Policing Networks in Canada’s Capital City

Luscombe

Walby

2014

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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Conservation officers have been neglected in policing studies literature due to a bias toward municipal and public police. The work of conservation officers and that of conventional public police overlap in ways that have not been explored. This article examines National Capital Commission (NCC) conservation officers’ involvement in policing networks in Ottawa and, more specifically, NCC regulation of the Occupy movement in Canada’s capital city. Having pitched tents in Ottawa’s Confederation Park, Occupy participants fell under NCC jurisdictional authority. Contributing to emerging literature on policing of the Occupy movement and literature on policing networks, we analyse conservation officer occurrence reports on Occupy Ottawa obtained through federal level access to information requests and results of interviews with NCC officers. We demonstrate how NCC officers participate in campaigns for urban order, nuisance removal, and protest policing in a network including municipal and federal public police, private contract security, and federal intelligence agencies.

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“…The first was the implementation, in conventional police and court systems, of policies and laws that take intimate-partner abuse more seriously (Wachholz and Miedema 2000). Second, the RJ movement was designed, developed, implemented in an increasing number of jurisdictions to treat offenders (of various crimes) less retributively (Deukmedjian 2008).…”

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Judges' Attitudes about and Experiences with Sentencing Circles in Intimate-Partner Abuse Cases

Belknap

McDonald

2010

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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During the 1980s and 1990s, two important changes that occurred in criminal processing were seemingly at odds for intimate-partner abuse cases. The first was the move to treat gender-violence cases more seriously and more punitively. The second was the design and implementation of restorative justice practices, which was mandated for consideration in First Nations cases in R. v. Gladue in 1999. There has also been an ongoing debate globally as to whether restorative justice is appropriate in gender-violence cases. Additionally, some First Nations scholars worry that restorative justice is simply another way of controlling and punishing Aboriginal peoples. This study draws on interviews with 27 judges in a large Western province, a year before the Gladue decision, regarding their attitudes to and experiences with sentencing circles in intimate-partner abuse cases. The findings suggest cautious judicial support tempered by serious concerns.

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The Rise and Fall of RCMP Community Justice Forums: Restorative Justice and Public Safety Interoperability in Canada

Cited by 7 publications

References 46 publications

When the State Tries to See Like a Family: Cultural Pluralism and the Family Group Conference in New Zealand

When the State Tries to See Like a Family: Cultural Pluralism and the Family Group Conference in New Zealand

Occupy Ottawa, Conservation Officers, and Policing Networks in Canada’s Capital City

Judges' Attitudes about and Experiences with Sentencing Circles in Intimate-Partner Abuse Cases

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