(with Jasmine Bruce) 'Community Participation in Restorative
Justice: Rituals, Reintegration, and Quasi-Professionalization' Victims &
Offenders: An International Journal of Evidence-based Research, Policy, and
Practice (2016)
Community has long been identified as the key third party in restorative justice
processes. However, when it comes to both theorizing community in restorative
justice and the actual practice of community participation, conceptual clarity
is lacking. A careful reading of the sociological literature on restorative
justice and community point to two main reasons why we want to encourage
community participation: the creation of effective ritual and offender
reintegration. In this paper, we present findings from an empirical study of
conferencing. We explore varieties of community participation and discuss the
benefits and tensions that arise when community participation becomes a
formalized element of a mainstream restorative justice practice.
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(with Lawrence W. Sherman , Heather Strang, Geoffrey Barnes,
Daniel J. Woods, Sarah Bennett, Nova Inkpen, Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Caroline
Angel, Malcolm Mearns, Molly Slothowe) 'Twelve experiments in restorative
justice: the Jerry Lee program of randomized trials of restorative justice
conferences' Journal of Experimental Criminology (2015) pp.1-40
We conducted and measured outcomes from the Jerry Lee Program of 12 randomized
trials over two decades in Australia and the United Kingdom (UK), testing an
identical method of restorative justice taught by the same trainers to hundreds
of police officers and others who delivered it to 2231 offenders and 1179
victims in 1995–2004. The article provides a review of the scientific progress
and policy effects of the program, as described in 75 publications and papers
arising from it, including previously unpublished results of our ongoing
analyses.
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(with Laura W. McDonald, David Tait, Karen Gelb, Blake M.
McKimmie) (2015) 'Digital evidence in the jury room: the impact of mobile
technology on the jury' Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 27 (2). ISSN
1034-5329
Emotions, rituals and restorative justice. ECAN bulletin
(25). pp. 15-19.
'Students vs. Jurors: Responding to Enhanced Video
Technology' Laws 2014, 3(3), 618-635
'Emotions in Ritual Theories' Handbook of the Sociology of
Emotions: Volume II, Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research 2014, pp
199-220
Rossner, M, Bruce, J. and Meher, M. (2013). Understanding
the Process of Restorative Justice: Research on Forum Sentencing. New South
Wales Department Attorney General and Justice and University of Western Sydney
'Restorative Justice, Emotions, and Adults' in Bolitho, J.,
Bruce, J., and Mason, G. (eds) Restorative Justice and Adult Offending.
Sydney: University of Sydney Institute of Criminology Monograph Series (2012)
Rossner, M. and Tait, D. ‘Contested Emotions: Adversarial
Rituals in Non adversarial Justice Procedures.’ Monash University Law Review
(2011) 37(1) pp.241-258
‘Emotions and Interaction Ritual: A Micro-Analysis of
Restorative Justice.’ British Journal of Criminology (2011) 51 pp.95-119
Restorative justice has long been touted as an effective and popular alternative
to mainstream justice. While most research on the subject measures outcomes and
satisfaction after the event, this study uses a video recording of a restorative
justice conference to analyse at the micro level the emotional and interactional
dynamics at work in transforming an initial situation of anger and anxiety into
one marked by displays of solidarity between victim and offender. It develops
Collins’ theory of interaction ritual chains to code the gradual emergence of a
successful interaction by analysis of facial expressions, verbal cues, gestures
and interactional dynamics.
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‘Reintegrative Ritual: Restorative Justice and
Micro-Sociology’ in Strang, H., Karstedt, S., and Loader, I. (eds), Emotions,
Crime, and Justice. Onati International Series on Law and Society (Oxford,
UK: Hart Publications, 2011)
Delahunty, J., Rossner, M. & Tait D. ‘Simulation and
dissimulation in jury research: Credibility in a live mock trial,’ in Bartels,
L. and Richards, K. (eds), Qualitative Criminology: Stories from the Field
(Sydney: Federation Press, 2010)
'Healing Victims and Offenders and Reducing Crime: A Critical
Assessment of Restorative Justice Practice and Theory' Sociology Compass
(2008) 2 (6) pp.1734-1749
The current article explores the growing restorative justice
movement. It examines promising research indicating that face-to-face dialogue
with crime victims and offenders may work to restore and heal participants, and
reduce recidivism. In addition, the article assesses the current state of
restorative justice theory, suggesting new avenues for future theory and
research. I show how current thinking about restorative justice can benefit from
a micro-sociological reframing, focusing on the production of collective emotion
and micro-dynamics of interaction.
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Sherman, L., Strang, H., Woods, D., Rossner, M., Angel, C.,
Barnes, G., Bennett, S., and Inkpen, N., 'Effects of Face to Face Restorative
Justice on Victims of Crime in Four Randomized, Controlled Trials' Journal of
Experimental Criminology (2005) 1 pp.367-395
The growing use of restorative justice provides a major
opportunity for experimental criminology and evidence-based policy. Face-to-face
meetings led by police officers between crime victims and their offenders are
predicted to reduce the harm to victims caused by the crime. This prediction is
derived not only from the social movement for restorative justice, but also from
the microsociology of interaction rituals (Collins, 2004). Four randomized,
controlled trials of this hypothesis in London and Canberra, with point
estimates disaggregated by gender, tested the prediction with measures of both
successful interaction ritual (apologies received and their perceived sincerity)
and the hypothesized benefits of the ritual (on forgiveness of, and reduced
desire for violent revenge against, offenders, and victim self-blame for the
crime). The meta-analyses of the eight point estimates suggest success (as
victims define it) of restorative justice as an interaction ritual, and as a
policy for reducing harm to victims.
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