Restoring Choice: The Relationship Between Offense Seriousness, Intervening Time, and Victims’ Responses to the Offer of Restorative Interventions

Batchelor, Diana

doi:10.1080/15564886.2014.1000557

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“…A further limitation of these studies is that only crimes committed in the 12 months prior to the survey are covered in the victimization module. Previous studies have found that time was a moderator of the relationship between severity and willingness to meet (Wyrick & Costanzo, 1999;Batchelor, 2017;Zebel et al, 2017), but in the exploratory analysis of the 2015À17 CSEW data there did not appear to be any effect of time passing on willingness to meet the offender. A 12-month period appears to be too short to explore the effects of this variable.…”

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“…The possibility of a peak in willingness at the midlevel of severity would align with qualitative studies in which some victims were unwilling to participate because the offense was not serious enough, while others were unwilling because the offense was too serious (Gustafson, 2005; Umbreit et al, 2002; Wemmers & van Hecke, 1992 1 ), implying that there is a midlevel of severity at which they would be most likely to participate. No studies have explicitly tested the hypothesis that the relationship between severity and victim willingness to communicate is curved, although findings from my prior research are indicative of a nonlinear relationship (Batchelor 2017).…”

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How crime severity predicts victim willingness to meet the offender.

Batchelor¹

2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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Policy and practice are often based on the assumption that victims of serious crimes are less willing to take part in restorative justice schemes than victims of minor crimes, despite a mix of contradictory existing evidence. The current studies use data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) to investigate predictors of victim willingness to meet the offender, using logistic regression models and path analysis. Study 1a was exploratory (CSEW years 2015−17), study 1b was a preregistered replication of study 1a (CSEW years 2017–2020). No support was identified for a negative or curved relationship between overall severity of the crime and willingness to meet the offender. Other dimensions of severity had varied independent effects; victims were more willing to meet when the crime had more impact on them, but less willing to meet when the offense had been violent. The relationship between violence and willingness to meet was partially mediated by the response of the criminal justice system, that is, police were more likely to have taken action when the crime was violent, and victims were less willing to meet the offender when the police had taken action. Overall, the findings suggest that victims of serious offenses should not be excluded from offers of meeting with the offender. The counterintuitive nature of the identified relationships indicate that exclusion criteria should be based on robust evidence not on intuition, and third parties should not make decisions on behalf of victims.

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How crime severity predicts victim willingness to meet the offender.

Batchelor¹

2023

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“…Research has shown that different crimes can activate different values, and values only influence behaviour when they are relevant in that context, therefore the expression of values during the restorative justice process may be dependent on the circumstances of the crime (Feather, 1998;Schwartz, 2012). Specifically, the type of offence that occurred, perceived severity of the offence, relationship history, and the time that has elapsed have all been shown to influence the likelihood of a victim taking part in restorative justice (Batchelor, 2017;Feather, 1998;Paul, 2015;Zebel et al, 2017). Facilitators in this study often stated that the presence of characteristics reflective of values were dependent upon the type of case and found it much easier to discuss the importance of things in the lives of specific individuals, which suggests that these factors may be moderating any relationship between values and restorative justice participation.…”

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“…Paul (2015) suggests that the decision by victims and offenders to participate is determined by a variety of situational, personal, and relational factors. Some situational factors which have received attention to date are that of offence seriousness and time since the offence (Batchelor, 2017;Zebel, Schreurs, & Ufkes, 2017).…”

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A glimpse into the role of personal values within the restorative justice process: a qualitative study with restorative justice facilitators

Mainwaring

Bardi

Meek

2019

Contemporary Justice Review

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Restorative justice is a process whereby offenders and their victims communicate to address the harm caused by the crime. Currently, there is little research looking at what characterises victims and offenders who are willing to participate in this process, who benefits, and what changes occur after participating. Personal values may be important in understanding such questions because they can influence human behaviour, appraisals of behaviour, and can change following life experiences. Hence, the aim of this study was to investigate the role that the values within Schwartz's (1992) value theory may have in answering these questions.This was accomplished through a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 12 restorative justice facilitators. Consistently, the motivations they observed for both victims and offenders participating in restorative justice included themes of prosocial values.Additionally, prosocial values were among those highlighted as being important for the realisation of the benefits of restorative justice. There was also some preliminary evidence that this process may change what values are important for both victims and offenders.

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“…Both accidentally encountered on the street, in a bar, etc., and during an intimate partnership. We suppose that the following scientific publications should be included in the list of the most significant recent research on this problem (Batchelor, 2017;Chafai, 2017;Classen et al, 2005;Começanha & Maia, 2018;Conley et al, 2017;Crandall et al, 2005;Daigle et al, 2009;De Àvila, 2018;Decker & Littleton, 2017;Djikanović et al, 2012;Donnelly & Calogero, 2018;Elmes et al, 2017;Fairchild & Rudman, 2008;Franklin & Menaker, 2018;Jayasuriya et al, 2011;Krahé et al, 2014;Kulig & Sullivan, 2017;Lindquist et al, 2013;Lisak & Miller, 2002;Littleton et al, 2008;Littleton & Dodd, 2016;Lown & Vega, 2001;Madan & Nalla, 2016;Mellgren et al, 2017;Natarajan et al, 2017;Rühs et al, 2017;Sambisa et al, 2010;Schuster et al, 2016;Vives-Cases & Parra 2016). This group includes victims of rape in a hidden -latent -form, but the study of statistics and behavior of latent victims in the scientific literature received very little attention (Grubb & Turner, 2012;Littleton et al, 2018;Loughnan et al, 2013;Maiuro, 2015;Strain et al, 2015;Wilson & Miller, 2015;Wood & Stichman, 2018).…”

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Application of the transformed-interview method in investigation of sexual crimes in Ukraine

Ivanchenko¹,

Safin²,

Тімченко³

et al. 2022

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The crime detection of sexual violence needs to be optimized and improved. This study aims to substantiate, elaborate, and apply in practice the method of a transformed interview (based on mathematical modeling) to obtain information about sexual violence. For the first time the transformed-interview method was used while studying the hidden (latent) victims of sexual violence who do not want to report a crime to law enforcement agencies because they do not want the fact of violence against them to be made public. Participated 2570 Ukrainian women of different social status, 16-35 years old. It was found that the increase of intermediaries during the information transmission reduces reliability of the information about crimes against the person’s sexual inviolability. While investigating such types of crimes the needed information can be obtained with a higher degree of reliability not from the victim, but from her closest surroundings. The transformed-interview method proved to be an effective tool to extract the information related to the behavior of both the offender and his victim. This method shows reliability and makes it possible to reduce the latency of most crimes in the situation of the victim’s refusal to testify at the re-trial investigation.

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Restoring Choice: The Relationship Between Offense Seriousness, Intervening Time, and Victims’ Responses to the Offer of Restorative Interventions

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

How crime severity predicts victim willingness to meet the offender.

How crime severity predicts victim willingness to meet the offender.

A glimpse into the role of personal values within the restorative justice process: a qualitative study with restorative justice facilitators

Application of the transformed-interview method in investigation of sexual crimes in Ukraine

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