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Victims Survey read more.
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RJC brief of the Ministry of Justice fourth report on Restorative Justice read more.
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Ministry of Justice Evaluation: Implementing restorative justice schemes (Crime Reduction Programme) The first year report read more.
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National Evaluation of the Youth Justice Board's Restorative Justice Projects read more.
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Restorative Approaches in Primary Schools: An Evaluation of the Project Co-ordinated by the Barnet Youth Offending Service read more.
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Proceed with caution: An evaluation of the Thames Valley Police initiative in restorative cautioning read more.
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Restorative Practices in Education read more.
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Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland – An Overview read more.
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Evaluation of Sheffield Community Justice Panel
Community (or Neighbourhood) Justice Panels are an innovative community based model of restorative justice being used in Sheffield, Somerset and Manchester.
Community Justice Panels are community based, using local volunteers to facilitate restorative meetings, building community ownership of solutions without recourse to the criminal justice system.
Community Justice Panels are highlighted in the Sentencing Green Paper Breaking the Cycle as an effective model that the Government wants to pilot more widely.
This research by the University of Sheffield comparing the cost of community mediation with interventions by statutory agencies found that the average cost of mediating a neighbour dispute across three mediation services varied from £160 to £430 (depending on throughput of cases); whereas Local Authority interventions could cost £1,240 - for example to go to court for an injunction.
Further Reading
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Breaking the cycle: effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders- green Paper 2010
The Government's Sentencing Green Paper