Restorative justice scores high.

AuthorMildon, Marsha

Each year, the Solicitor General's department conducts many research projects to find out whether correctional procedures and programs are working to reduce crime and re-offending. A recent study, Restorative Justice: An Evaluation of the Restorative Justice Project, looked at whether restorative justice could offer a truly practical alternative to incarceration.

To carry out the study, the evaluators followed 156 offenders in the Restorative Resolutions (RR) program in Winnipeg. In each case, the offenders were likely facing a minimum of six months in prison. The offenders were screened by RR, a community based plan including input from the victims was developed for the court, and if the court approved the plan, RR supervised the offender in the community.

In general, restorative justice tries to involve the victims and the offender, and to have the offender repair some of his or her damage. The RR program planned to have victim-offender meetings, but only 25 victims agreed to meet with the offender...

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