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This collection consists of summary annotations on all available restorative justice dialogue research the Center has been able to locate to date.  The forms of restorative justice dialogue represented in the collection include Victim Offender Mediation (also known as Victim Offender Reconciliation, Victim Offender Dialogue, and Victim-Sensitive Offender Dialogue), Group Conferencing (including family group conferencing and community group conferencing),  Circles, and Other (reparation boards and other dialogue services). 

The Center is continually seeking to update its collection and annotation database.  Please contact the Center if you are aware of published research on restorative justice dialogue that is not represented in our collection.

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Circles

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Hollow Water's Community Holistic Circle Healing Process. Couture, J., T. Parker, R. Couture, and P. Laboucane (2001). Summary PDF

Evaluation of Community Holistic Circle Healing. Hollow Water First Nation. Volume 1: Final Report. Lajeunesse, T. & Associates Ltd. (1996)  Summary PDF

Guide to Community-based Alternative for Low Risk Juvenile Offenders. Matthews, S. and G. Larkin (1999) Summary PDF

Group Conferencing

A New Approach to Juvenile Justice: An Evaluation of Family Group Conferencing in Wagga Wagga. Moore, D. B. and L. Forsyth (1995)  Summary PDF

An Empiricle Review of Family Group Conferencing in Juvenile Offenses. Bradshaw,W. and Roseborough, D. (2005)

 Assessing Re-offending in Restorative Justice Conferences.Hayes, H. (2004)  Summary PDF

 Client Evaluation of Family Group Conferencing in 12 Sites in 1st Judicial District of Minnesota  Fercello, C. and M.S. Umbreit (1998).  Summary PDF  Download Document PDF

Community Justice Conferences Technical Report 1 to the National Institute of Justice  Sherman, L., J. Braithwaite, H. Strang, G. Barnes and N. Inkpen (1998).  Summary PDF

Conferencing: A New Approach for Juvenile Justice in Honolulu  Walker, L. (2002).  Summary PDF

Conferencing and Re-offending in Queensland  Hayes, H. and K. Daly (2004)  Summary PDF

Conferencing in Australia and New Zealand: Variations, Research Findings, and Prospects  Daly, K. (2001).  Summary PDF

Family Group Conferencing and Reoffending  Maxwell, G. and A. Morris (2001)  Summary PDF

Family Group Conferencing Program Results in Client Satisfaction  Umbreit, M. and C. Fercello, (1998)  Summary PDF

Family, Victims and Culture: Youth Justice in New Zealand.  Maxwell, G. and A. Morris (1993)  Summary PDF

Proceed with Caution: An evaluation of the Thames Valley Police initiative in restorative cautioning  Hoyle, C., R. Young and R. Hill (2002).  Summary PDF

Reducing Juvenile Crime: Conferencing versus Court.  New South Wales. Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research  Luke, G. and B. Lind (2002).  Summary PDF

Recidivism Patterns in the Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE) Sherman, L., H. Strang and D. Woods (2000).  Summary PDF

Restorative Policing Experiment: The Bethlehem Pennsylvania Police Family Group Conferencing Project  McCold, P. and B. Wachtel (1998)  Summary PDF

Restoring school communities: A report on the Colorado Restorative Justice in Schools Program  Ierley, A. and C. Ivkor (2003)  Summary PDF

Returning Justice to the Community : The Indianapolis Juvenile Restorative Justice Experiment  McGarrell, E., K Olivares, K. Crawford and N. Kroorand (2000).  Summary PDF

Rise Working Papers: A Series of Reports on Research in Progress on the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE) for Restorative Community Policing  Sherman, L., H. Strang, and G. Barnes.  (1997)  Summary PDF

State Centered and Community Centered social control in police sponsored family group conferencing.  Pietsch, E. B.  (1999).  Summary PDF

The Implementation of Group Conferencing in Juvenile Justice in Victoria  Griffiths, M. (1999)  Summary PDF

The Woodbury Police Department Restorative Justice Program Recidivism Study.  Woodbury, MN:  Hines, D. (2000)  Summary PDF

Youth Justice Conferencing and Re-offending.  Hayes, H. and K. Daly (2003).  Summary PDF

Other

 Restorative Justice: An Evaluation of the Restorative Resolutions Project. Bonta, J., S. Wallace-Capretta, and J. Rooney (1998). Summary PDF

Victim Offender Mediation

A Preliminary Study of a Large Victim/Offender Reconciliation Program  Niemeyer, M. and D. Shichor  (1996).  Summary PDF

A Summary of the Evaluations of Six California Victim Offender Rehabilitation Programs  Evje, A. and R. Cushman, (2000).  Summary PDF

An Evaluation of Recidivism Rates for Resolutions Northwest's Victim-Offender Mediation Program.  Masters Stone, K. (2000)  Summary PDF

An Exploratory Evaluation of Restorative Justice Schemes.  Executive Summary.  Miers, D., M. Maguire, S. Goldie, K. Sharpe, C. Hale, A. Netten, S. Uglow, K. Doolin, A. Hallam, J. Enterkin and T. Newburn (2001). Summary PDF

Can Mediation Cut Reoffending?  Wynne, J. and I. Brown. (1998)  Summary PDF

Cobb County Juvenile Court Mediation Program Evaluation Carrolton, GA: State University of West Georgia.  Stone, S., W. Helms and P. Edgeworth (1998)  Summary PDF    Download Document PDF

Crime Victims Meet Juvenile Offenders: Contributing Factors to Victim Satisfaction with Mediated Dialogue  Bradshaw, W. and M. S. Umbreit (1998).  Summary PDF

Crime Victims Seeking Fairness, Not Revenge: Toward Restorative Justice  Umbreit, M. S. (1989a)  Summary PDF

Deschutes County Delinquent Youth Demonstration Project.   Secretary of State Audit Report # 2002-29   Bradbury, B. (2002).  Summary PDF

Evaluation of the Restorative Justice Program Eugene, OR: Lane County Department of Youth Services.  Nelson, S. (2000)  Summary PDF  Download Document PDF

Evaluation of the Victim Offender Mediation Project, Langley, BC: Final Report Roberts, T. (1995)  Summary PDF

Executive Summary: Victim Offender Dialogue In Crimes Of Severe Violence: A Multi Site Study Of Programs In Texas And Ohio  Umbreit, M. S., B. Vos, R. B. Coates and K. Brown (2002)  Summary PDF   Download Document PDF

 Factors that Contribute to Victim Satisfaction with Mediated Offender Dialogue in Winnipeg: An Emerging Area of Social Work Practice  Umbreit, M. S. and W. Bradshaw (1999)  Summary PDF

Final Evaluation Report on the Grande Prairie Community Reconciliation Project For Young Offenders Collins, J. P. (1984)  Summary PDF

Hope in Process: A qualitative Study of victim offender mediation dialogue in Texas  White, L. (2001)  Summary PDF

 Impact of Victim-Offender Mediation in Canada, England and the United States  Umbreit, M. S.,  R. B. Coates, and A. Roberts (1998)  Summary PDF

Leeds Mediation and Reparation Service: Ten Years Experience of Victim -Offender Mediation  Wynne, J. (1996)  Summary PDF

Making Amends: Justice for Victims and Offenders  Warner, S. (1992)  Summary PDF

Mediated Victim-Offender Restitution Agreements: An Exploratory Analysis of Factors Related to Victim Participation  Gehm, J. (1990)  Summary PDF

Mediation and Arbitration as Alternative to Prosecution in Felony Arrest Cases, An Evaluation of the Brooklyn Dispute Resolution CenterDavis, R., M. Tichane and D. Grayson (1980).  Summary PDF

Mediation of Interpersonal Disputes: An Evaluation of North Carolina's Programs  Clarke, S., E. Valente and R. Mace (1992).  Summary PDF

Mediation of Victim Offender Conflict  Umbreit, M. S. (1988)  Summary PDF

Mediation Services: An Evaluation.  Winnipeg, Manitoba, CAN Perry, L., T. Lajeunesse and A. Woods (1987).  Summary PDF

MinnesotaMediation CenterProduces Positive Results.  Umbreit, M. S. (1991)  Summary PDF

Participation in Victim-Offender Mediation and Severity of Subsequent Delinquent Behavior: Successful Replications?"  Nugent, W., M. Umbreit, L. Wiinamaki and J. Paddock (1999)  Summary PDF

Participation in Victim-Offender Mediation and the Prevalence and Severity of Subsequent Delinquent Behavior: A Meta-Analysis  Nugent, W., R. M. Williams and M. S. Umbreit (2003)  Summary PDF

Predictors of Client Participation in Victim-Offender Mediation  Wyrick, P. and M. Costanzo (1999)  Summary PDF

Repairing the Damage: An Evaluation of an Experimental Adult Reparation Scheme in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Dignan, (1990)  Summary PDF

Restitution and Recidivism Rates of Juvenile Offenders: Results from Four Experimental Studies  Schneider, A. (1986)  Summary  PDF

Restorative Justice and victim offender mediation: A new area for social psychological inquiry?  Bilz, K. (2002)  Summary PDF

Restoring the Harmony: A Report on a Victim Offender Conferencing Pilot Project Dissel, A. (2000)  Summary PDF

 Results of Research from British Experiments in Restorative Justice  Marshall, T. (1990)  Summary PDF

The Effect of Victim-Offender Mediation on Severity of Reoffense.  Nugent, W. M. and J. Paddock (1995)  Summary PDF

Two Types of Juvenile Restitution Programs in Two Midwestern Counties: A Comparative Study  Roy, S.  (1993)  Summary PDF

Victim Offender Mediation: An Evaluation of the Pima County Juvenile Court Center's Victim Offender Mediation Program (VOMP)  Roberts, L. (1998).  Summary PDF

Victim Offender Mediation: Application with Serious Offences Committed by Juveniles  Flaten, C. (1996)  Summary PDF

Victim-Offender Mediation by New Zealand Probation Officers: The Possibilities and the Reality  Galaway, B. (1995)  Summary PDF

Victim-Offender Mediation in the Juvenile Justice System  Hughes, S. and A. Schneider, (1990)  Summary PDF

Victim Offender Mediation in Missouri’s juvenile courts: accountability, restitution, and transformation  Katz, J. (2000).  Summary PDF

Victim-Offender Reconciliation Programs: Juvenile property offender recidivism and severity of reoffense in three Tennessee counties  Winnamaki, L.  (1997)  Summary PDF

Victim Participation in Victim Offender Conferencing: Washington County, Minnesota Community Justice Program Coates, R.B., Burns, H. & Umbreit, M.  (2002)  Summary PDF  Download Document PDF

Victims of Property Crime Meeting Their Juvenile Offenders: Victim Participants' Evaluation of the Dakota County (MN) Community Corrections Victim Offender Meeting Program.   Strode, E. (1997)   Summary PDF

Victims of Severe Violence Meet the Offender in Ohio  Umbreit, M. S. and K. A. Brown (1999)  Summary PDF 

Victims of Severe Violence Meet the Offender: Restorative Justice Through Dialogue  Umbreit, M. S., W. Bradshaw, and R. B. Coates (1999)  Summary PDF

Violent Offenders and Their Victims  Umbreit, M. S. (1989b)  Summary PDF

VORS Program Evaluation Report.  Carr, C. (1998)  Summary PDF

Youthful Offenders Response to Victim Offender Conferencing in Washington County, MN  Abrams, L and M. S. Umbreit  (2002).  Summary PDF  Download Document PDF

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