@article{ref1,
title="Are restorative justice conferences effective in reducing repeat offending? Findings from a Campbell Systematic Review",
journal="Journal of quantitative criminology",
year="2015",
author="Sherman, Lawrence W. and Strang, Heather and Mayo-Wilson, Evan and Woods, Daniel J. and Ariel, Barak",
volume="31",
number="1",
pages="1-24",
abstract="OBJECTIVEs This paper synthesizes the effects on repeat offending reported in ten eligible randomized trials of face-to-face restorative justice conferences (RJCs) between crime victims, their accused or convicted offenders, and their respective kin and communities. <br><br>METHODS After an exhaustive search strategy that examined 519 studies that could have been eligible for our rigorous inclusion criteria, we found ten that did. Included studies measured recidivism by 2 years of convictions after random assignment of 1,880 accused or convicted offenders who had consented to meet their consenting victims prior to random assignment, based on &quot;intention-to-treat&quot; analysis. <br><br>RESULTS Our meta-analysis found that, on average, RJCs cause a modest but highly cost-effective reduction in the frequency of repeat offending by the consenting offenders randomly assigned to participate in such a conference. A cost-effectiveness estimate for the seven United Kingdom experiments found a ratio of 3.7-8.1 times more benefit in cost of crimes prevented than the cost of delivering RJCs. <br><br>CONCLUSION RJCs are a cost-effective means of reducing frequency of recidivism.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0748-4518",
doi="10.1007/s10940-014-9222-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10940-014-9222-9"
}