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Circle Sentencing Study

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

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From New South Wales, Australia, comes this study on "circle sentencing," an aspect of the "restorative justice" movement (hat tip: SL&P). Here is the abstract: Circle sentencing is an alternative method of sentencing Aboriginal offenders which involves the offender?s community in the sentencing process. This bulletin considers whether people who participate in circle sentencing (1) show a reduction in the frequency of their offending, (2) take longer to reoffend and/or (3) reduce the seriousness of their offending. The results suggest that circle sentencing has no effect on any of these outcomes. Circle sentencing participants offended less in the 15 months following their circle. However, the same was also true of Aboriginal people sentenced in a traditional court setting (the control group)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on July 16, 2008 (boomark / email).

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