Injurious Reintegration Experiments
Solution types
Effectiveness

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No Effect

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Life periods served
Where the program was applied
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Description

This is a restorative justice conferencing program between youth involved in property crimes with a victim. When used as an alternative to the judicial process, restorative justice conferencing promotes a meeting between the youth who admitted to the crime, his or her advocates, the victim, the victim's advocates, a police officer, and a moderator and allows for low stigmatization, faster reintegration of the youth into the community, and less future offending.

Ideally, the conference ends with an agreement, in which the youth agrees to carry out compensatory actions, such as financial restitution and personal or community service, in addition to apologizing to the victim.

Impact evaluations

An impact evaluation showed that the program had had no impact on theft. However, offenders reported that the conferences were more procedurally fair than the court [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Sherman, L. W., Strang, H. & Woods, D. J. (2000). Recidivism Patterns in the Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE). Canberra, Australia. https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/recidivism-patterns…