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Title:
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An Evaluation of Community Justice Forums
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Author:
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Vermeulen, Sandra; Stuart, Charles; Dolder, Lisa
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Source:
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6th International Conference on Restorative Justice
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Date:
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06/01/2003
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Subject:
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Models - Community Justice Forums/Family Group Conferencing
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Call Number:
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210.06.13
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Type:
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Paper
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Abstract:
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Community justice forums (also referred to as Family Group Conferencing) are a restorative justice approach. The
purpose of these forums is to provide the offender, victim, their supporters, a trained facilitator, and those
involved in investigating the incident to reach an agreement that will repair the damage caused by the incident
and to minimize further harm. The intent of these programs is to maximize satisfaction of all participants and
to reduce re-offending. The purpose of this project was to evaluate a community justice program for offenders and
to determine the factors that predict successful outcomes of this program. More specifically, in this paper we
will discuss (1) the profile of offenders referred to these programs and (2) offender recidivism rates. In addition
to these goals, we examined the risk factors (e.g., number of previous offences, severity of index offence, etc.)
that predict offender outcomes. For the purposes of comparison, a matched sample of offenders who did not participate
in this program was employed. The results revealed that the community justice sample had lower rates of re-offending
than the court referred sample. The results also suggest that having a criminal record predicted re-offending rates
for the CJF referred offenders, but not for the court matched sample.
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