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| - 'It is useful to have research focusing on the victim's perspective.' - British Journal of Criminology
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| Description | | - Examines for the first time the victim's experience of restorative justice in comparison with the experience of victims whose cases were treated in the courts in the usual way
- Shifts the focus of discussion from the effectiveness of restorative justice in reducing reoffending to whether it offers the victims of crime advantages over traditional court-centred justice
| This book addresses the role of victims in our criminal justice system and the shortcomings they perceive in the way they are treated. It examines whether restorative justice can offer them more justice than they receive from the formal court-based system.
Research into the shortcomings of the court-based system has identified a number of issues that victims want to address. In brief, they
want a less formal process where their views count, more information about both the processing and the outcome of their case, a greater opportunity for participation in the way their case is dealt with, fairer and more respectful treatment, and emotional as well as material restoration as an outcome. Over the past three decades, the victim movement worldwide has agitated for an enhanced role for
victims in criminal justice. Despite some successes, it appears that structural as well as political factors may mean that victims have won as much as they are likely to gain from formal justice.
A series of randomized controlled trials in Canberra, known as the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE), has provided an opportunity to compare rigorously the impact on victims of court-based
justice with a restorative justice program known as conferencing. In these experiments, middle-range property and violent offences committed by young offenders were assigned either to court (as they would normally have been treated) or to a conference.
Empirical evidence from RISE examined in this book suggests that the restorative alternative of conferencing more often than court has the
capacity to give victims what they say they want in achieving meaningful victim participation and restoration, especially emotional restoration.
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Readership: Scholars and students of criminal law, sociology, police and criminal justice studies; also criminologists and those working and studying in the field of social policy.
| Contents |
1.
The Victim in Criminal Justice
2.
Victims of Crime and the Victim Movement
3.
The Theory and Practice of Restorative Justice
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The Reintegrative Shaming Experiments: Research Design and Methodology
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The Lived Experience of Victims: How Restorative Justice Worked in Canberra
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Victim Satisfaction with the Restorative Alternative
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Victims and Offenders: A Relational Analysis
8.
Conclusion
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Heather Strang, Director, Centre for Restorative Justice, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
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