Restorative Justice

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The Jerry Lee Program on Randomized Controlled Experiments
Summary

Restorative Justice: What We Know and How We Know It
- Presentation
- Working Paper

United Kingdom: Justice Research Consortium - The program aims to establish whether restorative justice approaches applied pre-sentence and post-sentence lead to a reduction in re-offending rates and increase victim satisfaction with the process. To date, RJ has been used in youth crime, but for the first time, this project will be focused on adult offenders.

- Lord Chief Justice Woolf writes on Restorative Justice
- Director of Public Prosecutions' Rules for Diversion to Restorative Justice in London

Australia: Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE) - Using an experimental research process which randomly assigns cases to a conference or a court hearing, RISE aims to compare the effectiveness of each procedure for certain kinds of offences, and will assess the effectiveness of conference and court processes for certain kinds of offences.

Related articles and presentations:
- Evidence-based justice
- Experimental Ethnography: The Marriage of Qualitative and Quantitative Research
- Verdicts or Inventions? Interpreting Results From Randomized Controlled Experiments in Criminology
- Repairing the Harm: Victims and Restorative Justice. Utah Law Review
- Unreliable Evidence - Clicking this link will automatically load a RealMedia file**You will need the free RealPlayer to play RealMedia files
   Aired 5 April 200 on the BBC Radio 4.

Repair or Revenge:
Victims and Restorative Justice
(link to Oxford Press)
by Heather Strang