An exploratory evaluation of restorative justice schemes: Crime reduction research series paper 9

Miers, David; Maguire, Mike; Goldie, Shelagh; Sharpe, Karen; Hale, Chris; Netten, Ann; Uglow, Steve; Doolin, Katherine; Hallam, Angela; Enterkin, Jill; Newburn, Tim

doi:10.1037/e468312008-001

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“…A little over half of all victims approached agreed to take part (see Table 1), a commendable figure by English standards. In contrast to our Canberra study, RJ programs in the United Kingdom have repeatedly found a serious reluctance on the part of victims generally to participate in RJ at all, with consent rates as low as 15% (Miers et al, 2001). We attribute the comparatively high participation rates by both victims and offenders to the way in which they were approached in all our U.K. sites, with face-to-face visits, sometimes more than one, by the specially trained police facilitators who would lead the conferences, and careful explanations of the RJ program and the research.…”

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“…Victims of juvenile offenders were more likely to consent to participate than victims in the adult cases (see Table 1). Nevertheless, the participation rates were still high by the standards of other RJ programs in the United Kingdom (Miers et al, 2001). All conferences took place in a police station under the auspices of the Northumbria Police and were facilitated by police officers trained by the same Australian trainers as in Canberra and London.…”

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Victim Evaluations of Face‐to‐Face Restorative Justice Conferences: A Quasi‐Experimental Analysis

Strang

Sherman

Angel

et al. 2006

Journal of Social Issues

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One major goal of face-to-face restorative justice (RJ) is to help heal the psychological harm suffered by crime victims (Braithwaite, 2002). Substantial evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) has shown that this can be accomplished (Strang, 2002) and more trials are underway (Sherman & Strang, 2004 The costs of crime are rarely calculated to include its full impact on crime victims. The British government, for example, employs a formula to estimate crime costs that includes property loss, health services, and victim support services, but makes only a crude estimation of the emotional costs entailed in victimization with no mention of such victim effects as fear of the offender repeating the crime, emotions of anger or grievance, or loss of a general sense of trust in others (Brand

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Victim Evaluations of Face‐to‐Face Restorative Justice Conferences: A Quasi‐Experimental Analysis

Strang

Sherman

Angel

et al. 2006

Journal of Social Issues

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“…Whilst none of the analyses attained levels of statistical significance -largely due to the small number of non-completers in some of the risk groups -examination of the percentagepoint reductions (comparing the actual rates of reconvictions for the two groups) indicated that the lower rates of reconviction for the completer group were almost equivalent to that found for previous wait-list controlled studies (e.g. Miers et al, 2001). For example, those who completed rJ from the high risk category demonstrated a 14.5% lower rate of reconviction and the very high groups' rate was 8.1% lower, which corresponds well with the 10% lower rate of reconviction reported in Miers et al (2001).…”

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“…Miers et al, 2001). For example, those who completed rJ from the high risk category demonstrated a 14.5% lower rate of reconviction and the very high groups' rate was 8.1% lower, which corresponds well with the 10% lower rate of reconviction reported in Miers et al (2001).…”

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Restorative Justice and Recidivism: Investigating the Impact of Victim-Preference for Level of Engagement

Wager

O’Keeffe

Bates

et al. 2015

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The aim of this study was to assess the impact of offering victims choice in their level of engagement with restorative justice interventions. Consequently, this study compared the expected risk for reconviction, calculated using the Offender Group Reconviction Scale and actual reconviction rates for completers and non-completers of three different restorative justice (RJ) initiatives: conference, letter of apology and victim-empathy work. Where reconvictions were evident the comparative level of harm between the initial and subsequent offences was examined. This was a risk-band analysis of 253 offenders who had received an RJ sentence between

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“…For example, in their evaluation of seven RJ programs in England, Miers et al (2001) found that the most common outcome of a face-to-face meeting was a direct apology. Similarly, relayed oral or written apologies were common in indirect mediation where victims chose not to meet offenders.…”

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Offer and Acceptance of Apology in Victim-Offender Mediation

Dhami

2011

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Past research on restorative justice (RJ) has highlighted the importance of apology for both victims and offenders and the prevalence of apology during the RJ process. The present study moves this work further by examining the nature of the apologies that are offered during victim-offender mediation, as well as the individual-, case-, and mediation-level factors that can affect the offer and acceptance of apology. In addition, we measure the implications that the offer and acceptance of apology can have on satisfaction with the mediation outcome. We conducted a content analysis of 57 records of mediations occurring between 2008 and 2010 at a UK mediation centre. Perpetrators said "I'm sorry" in over one-third of cases, and full apologies were offered in nearly one-fifth of cases. Apologies were accepted in over 90% of cases, although forgiveness was much less common. The offer of apology was most closely associated with the type of incident/offence, and number of previous mediations in a case. There was also some support for the relationship between the offer of apology and victim age, perpetrator gender, formal sanction, and the number of participants attending the mediation meeting. None of the factors studied were associated with the acceptance of apology. The offer of apology was associated with satisfaction with the mediation outcome, and in all of the cases where the apology was accepted, the victim was satisfied with the mediation outcome. The findings thus shed light on the role that apology can play in the effectiveness of RJ. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V

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An exploratory evaluation of restorative justice schemes: Crime reduction research series paper 9

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Victim Evaluations of Face‐to‐Face Restorative Justice Conferences: A Quasi‐Experimental Analysis

Victim Evaluations of Face‐to‐Face Restorative Justice Conferences: A Quasi‐Experimental Analysis

Restorative Justice and Recidivism: Investigating the Impact of Victim-Preference for Level of Engagement

Offer and Acceptance of Apology in Victim-Offender Mediation

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