Restorative Justice Dialogue: The Impact of Mediation and Conferencing on Juvenile Recidivism.

A meta-analytic study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of two restorative justice interventions—victim offender mediation (VOM) and family group conferencing (FGC)—on juvenile recidivism. The results from 19 existing studies were synthesized. Findings yielded an average effect size o...

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Publicado en:Federal Probation Vol. 69; no. 2; pp. 15 - 22
Autores principales: Bradshaw, William, Roseborough, David
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Superintendent of Documents December 2005
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Sumario:A meta-analytic study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of two restorative justice interventions—victim offender mediation (VOM) and family group conferencing (FGC)—on juvenile recidivism. The results from 19 existing studies were synthesized. Findings yielded an average effect size of .26, an intervention effect that is twice that of the previously reported effect sized of .10 demonstrated in traditional justice programs. Findings supported VOM as a well-established, empirically-supported intervention for reducing juvenile recidivism and suggested that FGC is a promising, but experimental, intervention.