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Does restorative justice affect reconviction? The fourth report from the evaluation of three schemes
2008
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Implementing Restorative Justice Schemes (Crime Reduction Programme) A Report on The First Year
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• undertaking pre-mediation or pre-conference interviews or using questionnaires for victims and offenders for some schemes; and • undertaking post-restorative justice and control group interviews with offenders and victims. CONNECT Up to 31 August 2002, 59 cases had been referred to CONNECT, with 37 cases having been completed, in 12 of which there had been indirect or direct mediation. Key difficulties and developments • The main difficulty for CONNECT has been maintaining an adequate flow of cases, primarily because of the low numbers of relevant cases at the courts concerned. • The area has a high volume of drug-related crime and a high proportion of indictable-only cases. Custody was, therefore, often an option, leaving few cases for CONNECT to deal with. • Referrals from sentencers were fewer than expected and, by the end of the period, CONNECT found referrals from probation to be key, as well as cases they have picked up themselves from attendance at court. CONNECT have become well known at court, although attendance took up a lot of time. To attempt to obtain more cases, the scheme has also expanded to include the adjacent magistrates' court area. • The offenders in the cases CONNECT has taken on are older on average than those of the other schemes, and a greater proportion of cases involve previous convictions and social problems, as well as more 'difficult' circumstances. • Victim contact has also been problematic. Justice Research Consortium The Consortium is working at three sites: London, Northumbria and Thames Valley, using a conferencing model of restorative justice.
The Impact of Enhanced Resettlement Provision on Short-Term Prisoners: A Recidivism Study
British journal of community justice, 2016
This paper draws on previously unpublished data of a short-term prisoner resettlement initiative (Step-On) in two large prisons in the north of England in the United Kingdom (UK). A quasi-experimental design was used to compare a sample of 192 prisoners who underwent enhanced resettlement assistance with a matched sample of offenders who did not. The purpose was to examine whether the enhanced resettlement support across five 'resettlement pathways' led to lower levels of recidivism following release from prison. The analysis found that the experimental group with enhanced resettlement support was significantly less likely to reoffend compared with the matched control group, however, this positive effect only held during the 90 day post-release support period, after which there was no significant difference between groups. In addition to delayed reoffending, other benefits of the project saw a reduced severity of offence for those who did reoffend. These findings have policy and practice implications for the resourcing of resettlement provision in the UK and other jurisdictions.
Psychology in …, 2001
I n the history of criminal justice, rehabilitation philosophy has fluctuated in pendular form between periods in which rehabilitation of offenders was considered feasible and other periods in which it was not. Up to the 1970s, researchers and those working in the field of justice placed a great deal of confidence in the so-called "rehabilitation ideal" which held that offender recidivism could be reduced by means of treatment. However, the 1980s marked the beginning of a more pessimistic period in which the predominant belief was that "not-hing worked" as far as offender rehabilitation was concerned. Nonetheless, a certain optimism re-emerged in 1988/89 with respect to the treatment of offenders. The evaluative research published in the 1980s concluded that some programmes had been moderately effective in terms of reducing criminal recidivism (Palmer, 1995). This line of investigation has continued to develop in the 1990s. Throughout the decade, a number of metaanalytic studies both in North America and, later, in Europe, were carried out in order to assess the degree of effectiveness of treatment techniques applied to offenders (
A review of restorative justice responses to offending
Evidence Base, 2013
The present review sought to determine on the available evidence (a) whether restorative justice (RJ) is an effective means of reducing re-offending (b) what benefits victims of crime obtain from participation in the RJ process (c) whether the public supports the principles of RJ and (d) how the cost and efficiency of RJ proceedings compare with conventional courts in cost and efficiency (i.e. time taken to finalize cases). The review finds little reliable evidence that RJ reduces re-offending. Victims who participate in RJ are generally satisfied with the experience but it is unclear whether they are more satisfied than victims in similar cases that are dealt with in court. The limited evidence available suggests that the public supports the principles of RJ. It appears to be a less expensive and more efficient way of finalizing criminal cases involving young people but, once again, the evidence on this issue at this stage is rather limited.
Criminology & Criminal Justice
There is scarce research evidence of restorative justice being used in the context of serious and organised crime offending. This study sought to explore the feasibility of using restorative justice by canvassing the views of experts, serious and organised crime offenders and serious and organised crime victims in England. Offenders and victims were given the opportunity to engage in a restorative justice initiative and individual cases were pursued accordingly as a series of case studies. Case studies were limited to large-scale serious and organised fraud. Stark differences in views were apparent between serious and organised crime experts and restorative justice experts, the former doubting offenders’ motivations and pointing to their dangerousness without fully considering victim perspectives. Despite high attrition rates among some offenders expressing an initial willingness to pursue restorative justice, where both parties wished to participate, sustained motivation was observ...
Handbook on restorative justice programmes
2006
Acknowledgements The Handbook was prepared for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) by Yvon Dandurand, Dean of Research, University College of the Eraser Valley, Canada; Senior Associate, Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice ...