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Restorative justice

SAJJ technical report no. 1 : Project overview and research instruments

Kathleen Daly (Project Director)
with the assistance of Michele Venables, Mary McKenna, Liz Mumford and Jane Christie-Johnston
December 1998

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Abstract

This report describes the South Australia Juvenile Justice (SAJJ) Research on Conferencing Project. Part I gives an overview of:

Part II describes the six instruments used in Phase 1 of the project (March-July 1998), providing background material and notes on how each instrument was designed, the source and rationale of question items, and what problems (if any) emerged in using each instrument. The instruments, which are shown in Appendices 1-6, are:

The aim in assembling this document is both to describe the SAJJ project and to assist others who plan to conduct research on conferencing and restorative justice processes more generally. Daly, as Project Director, wrote the report; it was reviewed and edited by all the project's 1998 research assistants. Three researchers -- Venables, McKenna, and Mumford -- began work on SAJJ in January and February 1998, and they had key roles in establishing office procedures, preparing items for and revising the research instruments, and conducting the observations and interviews in Adelaide from February through June 1998. Christie-Johnston began work on the project in May, assisting Daly in the Port Augusta phase of the research in May and June 1998.

When citing this report, please use:

Daly, Kathleen, Michele Venables, Mary McKenna, Liz Mumford, and Jane Christie-Johnston (1998) South Australia Juvenile Justice (SAJJ) Research on Conferencing, Technical Report No. 1: Project Overview and Research Instruments, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Queensland.

Acknowledgment

I acknowledge and thank Carto Graphics, Adelaide for granting permission to use the maps used at page 29 and 30 of this report.

Table of contents

Part I: Overview of the SAJJ Project

  1. Legal and organisational context
  2. Preliminary research leading up to SAJJ
  3. Research questions
  4. Time frame and source of funding
  5. Comparison of SAJJ with RISE
  6. General design considerations
  7. Theoretical aims
  8. Sampling plan
  9. Data gathering plan
  10. Conference numbers (estimated and actual)
  11. Interviews of young people (offenders) and victims
  12. Selected features of the SAJJ-98 sample.

Part II: Research instruments

  1. Youth Justice Coordinator (YJC) survey
  2. Police Youth Officer (PYO) survey
  3. Briefing-Observational Protocol (the BOP)
  4. Young Person (YP) interview
  5. Victim interview
  6. Victim no-show interview (for victims who did not or could not attend the conference)

Appendices

  1. Youth Justice Coordinator (YJC) survey
  2. Police Youth Officer (PYO) survey (PDF 121kB)
  3. The Briefing-Observation Protocol (BOP) (PDF 53kB)
  4. Young Person (YP) interview (PDF 287kB)
  5. Victim interview (PDF 299kB)
  6. Victim no-show interview (PDF 50kB)

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