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  • Explaining Continuity and Change in Offending Behaviour after a Restorative Justice Conference

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    Hayes, Hennessey
    McGee, Tara
    Cerruto, Michael
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    Hayes, Hennessey D.
    Cerruto, Michael
    McGee, Tara Renae R.
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    Over the past two decades, research has produced inconsistent results regarding the crime prevention potential of restorative justice conferencing for young offenders. Some comparative research has suggested that restorative justice conferencing reduces reoffending compared with other youth justice processes (Strang et al 1999). Other quantitative research has examined the circumstances under which conferencing reduces crime and has found that offender characteristics, conference features and post-conference life experiences are important in explaining reoffending after a conference (Hayes and Daly 2003). Drawing upon ...
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    Over the past two decades, research has produced inconsistent results regarding the crime prevention potential of restorative justice conferencing for young offenders. Some comparative research has suggested that restorative justice conferencing reduces reoffending compared with other youth justice processes (Strang et al 1999). Other quantitative research has examined the circumstances under which conferencing reduces crime and has found that offender characteristics, conference features and post-conference life experiences are important in explaining reoffending after a conference (Hayes and Daly 2003). Drawing upon observation and interview data obtained from a sample of 25 young offenders who attended conferences in south-east Queensland, the study reported in this article explored how experiences in conferences relate to post-intervention offending behaviour. The results of the study suggest that young people in the sample who continued (n=9) or stopped offending (n=16) one year after their conference, had positive experiences in telling their story, meeting their victims and hearing their victim's stories in conferences. However, there were some key differences. Some young people who continued offending were disappointed when victims did not attend or perceived victims as being hostile towards them. In contrast, some young people who stopped offending viewed their conference experience as an event that helped them avoid future offending because the conference highlighted the consequences of their offending for victims. These results suggest that while, on balance, conference processes are judged positively, there are important interactional features that can bear negatively on post-intervention offending. Introduction
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    Journal Title
    Current Issues in Criminal Justice
    Volume
    23
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    http://sydney.edu.au/law/criminology/journal/23_02.shtml
    Funder(s)
    ARC
    Grant identifier(s)
    LP0454843
    Copyright Statement
    © 2011, Published by The Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Law and Legal Studies not elsewhere classified
    Criminology
    Sociology
    Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/44248
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