Connections Between Restorative Justice and Reduced Offender Mortality

• In Event: Police Models and Practices

Abstract

The Re-Integrative Shaming Experiments (RISE) were conducted in Canberra, Australia between 1995 and 2002. Four different randomized controlled trials were conducted to compare the effects of restorative justice conferencing to traditional court processing in response to criminal behavior. Recent findings suggest that, among the offenders who were enrolled into RISE for violent crimes, those assigned to restorative justice had died at a much lower rate than those who were sent to court. This paper examines the strength of these effects and explores some possible causes.

Authors

• Geoffrey C. Barnes, University of Pennsylvania

• Jordan Hyatt, University of Pennsylvania / Rutgers University