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Pardons in perspective: the role of forgiveness in criminal justice

David Tait
- 01 Feb 2001 - 
- Vol. 13, pp 134-138
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This article is published in Federal Sentencing Reporter.The article was published on 2001-02-01. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Theory of criminal justice & Criminal justice.

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Penerapan Konsep ‘Pemaafan Hakim’ sebagai Alternatif dalam Menurunkan Tingkat Kriminalitas di Indonesia

lukman hakim
TL;DR: In this article, a penelitian ying menunjukkan bahwa hakim di Indonesia ternyata memiliki kecenderungan menjatuhkan putusan pemidanaan terhadap perbuatan pidana dengan ancaman pidana di bawah 5 (lima) tahun ying tergolong tindak pidana ringan.
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Singapore and Thailand: Explaining Differences in Death Penalty Clemency

TL;DR: In this chapter, the author combines theoretically plausible explanations with local observations to explain why such a marked discrepancy in clemency practices may exist, and to which structural or cultural features of the Singaporean and Thai societies it can be traced.

La victima, el victimario y la justicia restaurativa

TL;DR: In 2008, Mexico adopted a constitutional reform that creates a new paradigm of restorative justice aimed to preserve the dignity of the victims and introduce innovative legal and social norms in law enforcement, such as peace and forgiveness as mentioned in this paper.
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North Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and Transitional Justice in the Maghreb

TL;DR: The authors explored transitional justice in the Maghreb and provided recommendations from the application of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in the region for Libya's proposed commission once fighting between the different factions ceases.
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No Future Without Forgiveness

TL;DR: Tutu as mentioned in this paper put forward a bold spirituality that recognizes the horrors people can inflict upon one another and yet retains a sense of idealism and realism about reconciliation, and shared profound lessons of forgiveness from his own life and from the people of South Africa.
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Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence

TL;DR: In Between Vengeance and Forgiveness as discussed by the authors, Harvard Law School professor Martha Minow explores the benefits and drawbacks of a variety of forms of settlement, including war-crimes tribunals and financial payback.
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Forgiveness and Mercy

TL;DR: In this paper, the retributive emotions of hate, forgiveness, resentment, and hatred are discussed and a qualified defence for hate crime is proposed to defend against hate crime.
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Limits to Pain

Nils Christie
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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

TL;DR: The Sunflower as discussed by the authors is one of the most important documents of the Holocaust literature and a touchstone of interfaith dialogue, and it has been used as a basis for a new generation of thinkers, including Robert Coles, Matthew Fox, Arthur Hertzberg, Harold Kushner, Dith Pran, the Dalai Lama, Dennis Prager, Tzvetan Todorov, and Harry Wu.