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31 J. Quantitative Criminology 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/jquantc31 and id is 1 raw text is: J Quant Criminol (2015) 31:1 24 DOI 10.1007/s10940-014-9222-9 Are Restorative Justice Conferences Effective in Reducing Repeat Offending? Findings from a Campbell Systematic Review Lawrence W. Sherman - Heather Strang - Evan Mayo-Wilson Daniel J. Woods - Barak Ariel Published online: 25 March 2014 © The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com 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. 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 intention-to-treat analysis. 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 ran- domly 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. Conclusion RJCs are a cost-effective means of reducing frequency of recidivism. L. W. Sherman - H. Strang (E) - B. Ariel Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK e-mail: hs404@cam.ac.uk L. W. Sherman University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA H. Strang Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia E. Mayo-Wilson Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA D. J. Woods Police Executive Research Forum, Washington, DC, USA B. Ariel Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Springer

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