Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE)
Experiments in restorative policing: a progress report on the Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE)
Heather Strang, Geoffrey C Barnes, John Braithwaite and Lawrence W Sherman
Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
July 1999
- Download full report (PDF 480kB)
Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction (PDF 12kB)
- Chapter 2: Research design and methods (PDF 95kB)
- Chapter 3: The four experiments: offenders and victims (PDF 99kB)
- Chapter 4: What happened in court and conference: observation and records (PDF 105kB)
- Chapter 5: Offender reactions to court and conference (PDF 101kB)
- Chapter 6: Long-term effects of court and conference (PDF 73kB)
- Chapter 7: Victim perspectives on court and conference (PDF 40kB)
- Chapter 8: Police attitudes towards court and conference (PDF 20kB)
Abstract
The effects of standard court processing is compared with the effects of a diversionary conference for four kinds of offence categories: drink driving at any age, juvenile property offending with personal victims; juvenile shoplifting offences detected by shop security staff; and youth violent offences. The data analysed confirms that both offenders and victims find diversionary conferences to be fairer than court.