The Effectiveness of Restorative Justice
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SummaryIn recent years, restorative justice has been utilized by various jurisdictions and organizations across the globe in an effort to promote increased satisfaction and fairness to participants, as well as hoping to lower crime rates and achieve a multitude of other objectives. Furthermore, it has developed to somewhat of a social movement. The widespread utilization and inflated interest in restorative justice warrant a need for comprehensive studies of the theories, processes, effects, tools, policies, outcomes and corollaries of restorative justice. Luckily, researchers have offered numerous investigations, analyses and reviews of the restorative justice configuration, and in this paper I shall evaluate and consider these studies.
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- What are the main findings of broad overviews of the effectiveness of restorative justice?
- Restorative justice as a social movement is exploding globally.
- The advent of restorative justice is largely due to the widespread dissatisfaction with the traditional court system.
- There are different ‘levels' and degrees of restorativeness.
- How do we judge the success of such programs?
- Braithwaite sums up some of the research findings.
- Analysis of the family conferencing model of Bethlehem.
- The advice and evaluations of researchers need to be understood, utilized, considered and paid close attention.
- Far more experimentation and research is needed as the restorative justice model matures.
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