Heather Strang Visiting Fellow Email: heathers@coombs.anu.edu.au

Dr Strang is Director of the Centre for Restorative Justice at the Australian National University. Over the past five years she has managed a major research project in Canberra known as the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE), investigating the effectiveness of a restorative justice alternative to normal criminal justice processing of offenders. She has a special interest in victims of crime, which is the focus of her own research contribution to RISE. She is currently directing a series of UK experiments for the British Home Office which involves the development and testing of the impact of restorative justice programs at various points in the criminal justice system. PUBLICATIONS 1. Books 2002, Repair or Revenge: Victims and Restorative Justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 298 plus xx pp. (paperback edition published 2004) 2002, Restorative Justice and Family Violence (co-edited with John Braithwaite), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 288 plus xi pp. 2001, Restorative Justice and Civil Society, (co-edited with John Braithwaite), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 241 plus xii pp. 2000, Restorative Justice: From Philosophy to Practice, (co-edited with John Braithwaite), Ashgate, Aldershot, 224 plus xv pp. 2. Book Chapters In press, ‘Does Restorative Justice Reduce Victimization?’, (co - authored with Lawrence Sherman) in B Welsh and D Farrington (eds) Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims and Places. Wadsworth Publishing 2004, ‘Is Restorative Justice Imposing its Agenda on Victims?’ in H Zehr and B Toews (eds) Critical Issues in Restorative Justice, New York, Criminal Justice Press. 2003, ‘Captains of Restorative Justice: experience, legitimacy and recidivism by type of offence’ (co - authored with Lawrence W Sherman and Daniel J Woods) in E G M Weitekamp and H J Kerner (eds) Restorative Justice in Context: International Practice and Directions, Willam Publishing, Devon UK, pp 229 - 256. 2002, ‘Restorative Justice and Family Violence’ (co - authored with John Braithwaite) in Restorative Justice and Family Violence (co-edited with John Braithwaite), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2001, ‘Introduction: Restorative Justice and Civil Society’, in H Strang and J Braithwaite (eds) Restorative Justice and Civil Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 1 - 13. 2001, ‘The Crime Victim Movement as a Force in Civil Society’ in H Strang and J Braithwaite (eds) Restorative Justice and Civil Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 69-82. 2001, ‘Justice for Victims of Young Offenders: the Centrality of Emotional Harm and Restoration’, in A Morris & G Maxwell (eds) Restorative Conferencing for Young Offenders, Hart Publishing, Oxford. (Reprinted in 2003 G Johnstone (ed) A Restorative Justice Reader: Texts, Sources, Context, Cullompton, Devon, Willam Publishing). 2000, ‘The Future of Restorative Justice’, in D Chappell and P Wilson (eds) The Australian Criminal Justice System: 2000 and Beyond, Butterworths, Sydney, pp 22-33. 1999 ‘Restorative Justice: Current Developments and Research Findings, in Proceedings of the Australian Institute of Criminology Symposium on Crime, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra. 1999, ‘Research on Conferencing: the Canberra Experiments’, in A Morris and G Maxwell Youth Justice in Focus, Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington. 1995, 'Child Abuse Homicides', in D Chappell and S Egger, Australian Violence: Contemporary Perspectives 11, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, pp 71-86. 3. Journal Articles Forthcoming, (co - authored with Lawrence W. Sherman), ‘Victim Evaluations of Face-to-Face Restorative Justice Conferences: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis’, Journal of Social Issues. 2005 (co -authored with Lawrence W. Sherman, Caroline Angel, Daniel Woods, Meredith Rossner, Geoffrey C. Barnes, Sarah Bennett and Nova Inkpen, ‘Effects of Face-to-Face Restorative Justice on Victims of Crime in Four Randomized, Controlled Trials’, Journal of Experimental Criminology, 1: 3. 2004 (co - authored with Lawrence W Sherman), ‘Verdicts or Inventions? Interpreting Results from Randomized Controlled Experiments in Criminology’ American Behavioral Scientist (special issue devoted to Experimental Methods in the Political Sciences edited by Donald P Green and Alan S Gerber, Yale University), 47: 5, pp 575 - 607. 2004 (co - authored with Lawrence W Sherman), ‘Experimental Ethnography: The Marriage of Qualitative and Quantitative Research’ Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 595, pp 204 - 222, September. 2003 (co - authored with Lawrence W Sherman), ‘Repairing the Harm: Victims and Restorative Justice’ Utah Law Review, vol 2003, no 1, pp 15 - 42. 2001 (co-authored with C Carcach, R Goldney & P Grabosky), ‘Temporal Clustering of Child Homicide: Contagion or Illusion?’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology . vol 34, no 2, pp 182-192. 1995, 'Replacing Courts with Conferences’, Policing, vol 11, no. 3, pp 212-220. 4. Monographs 2000, (co - authored with Lawrence W. Sherman & Daniel J Woods), Recidivism Patterns in the Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments, Canberra, Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www.aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html). 1999, (co-authored with Lawrence Sherman, Geoffrey Barnes & John Braithwaite), Experiments in Restorative Policing: A Progress Report, Canberra, Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www. aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html). 1998, (co-authored with Lawrence Sherman, Geoffrey Barnes, John Braithwaite & Nova Inkpen), Experiments in Restorative Policing: A Progress Report, Canberra, Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www.aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html). 1997 (co - authored with Lawrence W. Sherman), ‘The Right Kind of Shame for Crime Prevention’, RISE Working Paper No. 1. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www. aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html). 1997 (co - authored with Lawrence W. Sherman), ‘The Victim’s Perspective’, RISE Working Papers No. 2. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www. aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html). 1997 (co - authored with Lawrence W. Sherman), ‘Restorative Justice and Deterring Crime’, RISE Working Paper No. 4. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www. aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html). 1997 (co - authored with Lawrence W. Sherman, John Braithwaite, Geoffrey C. Barnes, Jane Christie-Johnston, Sandra Smith, and Nova Inkpen), Experiments in Restorative Policing. ‘Reintegrative Shaming of Violence, Drink Driving & Property Crime: A Randomised Controlled Trial’. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www. aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html). 1996 (co -authored with Lawrence W. Sherman), ‘Policing Domestic Violence: The Problem-Solving Paradigm’, Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www. aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html). 5. Reports and Other Publications 2000, Restorative Justice in Australia, A Report to the Criminology Research Council. Ms 38 pp. (www.aic.gov.au/rjustice). 1999, ‘Crime and Restorative Justice: a Communitarian Approach’, in The Australia Institute, no. 19, June, pp 5-6. 1996, ‘Child Victims of Homicide’, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra