International

This page gives details of research which is happening or has been completed outside the UK. The information is listed alphabetically by country, and starting with the most recent first.

Reviews

“A Survey of Assessment Research on Mediation and Restorative Justice” by Paul McCold: A Summary (June 29th 2004)
pdf version

An international Review of Restorative Justice
David Miers,(2001)

Australia

Kathleen Daly has written extensively on RJ. Click here to access a full list of publications, most of which are available in pdf format.

 Processes for Developing a Restorative Justice Model in a Regional Area: A Feasibility and Implementation Study  Brian Steele, Centre for Social and Community Research, Murdoch University (2006)

Assessing re-offending in restorative justice conferences
Hennessey Hayes, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University (2005)

Restoration or Renovation? Evaluating restorative justice outcomes Jaimie Beven & Guy Hall

Abstract: Restorative justice seeks to ‘restore’ specific features of offenders and victims attributable to the criminal act, however, critics of restorative justice claim that its popularity is based on ‘humanistic sentiment’ and suggest that the process is incapable of actually ‘restoring’ victims and offenders. The current study sought to establish if restorative justice is capable of restoring victims and offenders in a meaningful manner, or if restorative justice simply results in a superficial ‘renovation’ of the impact of crime. 72 victims and offenders participated in a community group conference model of restorative justice and were compared on outcome variables with a control group of victims and offenders who underwent a conventional court process. Results demonstrate that the process is capable of impacting upon variables associated with the criminal act. Furthermore, it is argued that a reduction in offending behaviour and victimisation impact are realistic outcomes of restorative justice processes. Finally, regression analysis indicated that victims were satisfied with the restorative justice process as a result of their greater participation rather than their satisfaction with reparation or restitution.

SAJJ-CJ technical report no. 3 : Archival study of sexual offence cases disposed in youth court and by conference and formal caution
Kathleen Daly (Project Director), Sarah Curtis-Fawley, Brigitte Bouhours
with the assistance of Leanne Weber, Rita Scholl
(Dec 2003)

Sexual offence cases finalised in court, by conference, and by formal caution in South Australia for young offenders, 1995-2001 : Final report, August 2003
Kathleen Daly (Project Director), Sarah Curtis-Fawley, Brigitte Bouhours
with the assistance of Leanne Weber, Rita Scholl
(August 2003)

South Australia Juvenile Justice and Criminal Justice: Research on Conferencing and Sentencing (Dec 2003)

Recidivism patterns in the Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE)
Lawrence W Sherman, Heather Strang and Daniel J Woods
Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
(November 2000)
This is the final report on a project partially funded by the Criminology Research Council. The original title of the project, in the name of John Braithwaite and Lawrence W. Sherman, was "Reintegrative shaming of violence, drink driving and property crime : a randomised controlled trial". This report describes findings on the recidivism behaviour of offenders involved in the Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments, which compared the effects of standard court processing with the effects of a diversionary conference for four kinds of cases: drink driving at any age; juvenile property offending with personal victims; juvenile shoplifting offences detected by store security officers; and youth violent crimes. Across the four experiments that make up the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments project (RISE), very different results have emerged for the different offence categories.

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