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Achieving restorative justice: Assessing contrition and forgiveness in the adult conference process

Achieving restorative justice: Assessing contrition and forgiveness in the adult conference process This paper examines the key processes and outcomes of a pilot adult restorative justice programme initiated in one Australian state. We focus particularly on the methods used to ‘capture’ expressions of contrition and forgiveness in various conference settings. In addition, we examine the legal and procedural considerations arising from the pilot, and draw, importantly, on victim and offender narratives of ‘the conference experience’. In concluding, we note the substantive potential for restorative justice to play a meaningful role in adult contexts and briefly consider the future for initiatives of this kind. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

Achieving restorative justice: Assessing contrition and forgiveness in the adult conference process

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2014
ISSN
0004-8658
eISSN
1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/0004865814538433
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Abstract

This paper examines the key processes and outcomes of a pilot adult restorative justice programme initiated in one Australian state. We focus particularly on the methods used to ‘capture’ expressions of contrition and forgiveness in various conference settings. In addition, we examine the legal and procedural considerations arising from the pilot, and draw, importantly, on victim and offender narratives of ‘the conference experience’. In concluding, we note the substantive potential for restorative justice to play a meaningful role in adult contexts and briefly consider the future for initiatives of this kind.

Journal

Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Dec 1, 2015

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