G543 - Alternatives To Imprisonment - Sherman And Strang Flashcards

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What type of search did they use?

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Internet search

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What was the Internet search applied to?

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Many databases of abstracts and academic periodicals worldwide

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What words were used in the internet search?

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‘Restorative justice’ ‘re-offending’ ‘recidivism’

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How many ‘hits’ did the Internet search yield?

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424

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How many researchers analysed the content of the 424 ‘hits’?

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2

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What did the researchers aim to find in the ‘hits’ from the Internet search? What is this the minimum standard used by? In assessing what? To arrive at what?

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Ones where a sample of offenders on a restorative justice programme were compared to a similar sample who did not experience RJ.
Minimum standard used by the home office in assessing re-conviction rates to arrive at what they call “reasonably unbiased results”

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How many studies did the second process yield? Which formed the basis for what?

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36, which formed the basis for analysis to identify any evidence of effectiveness

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What were reductions in reoffending found for?

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Violence and property crime, but RJ does not work in all cases

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In what cases does RJ work best?

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In cases with a personal victim

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What can RJ improve from the victim’s viewpoint? Provided they have been what? By reducing? And helping them do what?

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Their mental health, provided they have been willing participants. By reducing post-traumatic shock symptoms and helping them come to terms with what has happened

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What is there strong evidence for?

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The effectiveness of Restorative justice in some cases in reducing reoffending

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Who was one of the advisors for the report?

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A senior police officer with the Thames valley police

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What have Thames valley police developed expertise in?

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Restorative conferencing

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What are the Thames valley police doing with the expertise in restorative justice?

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Cascading it out to other police forces

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What does the report also point out?

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It is becoming more widespread in schools with the publication of Daniel Goleman’s book ‘emotional intelligence’ as a theoretical basis

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What did they aim to do?

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To look at good practice in restorative justice and to come to a conclusion on its effectiveness in reference to reoffending