Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE) in Australia, 1995-1999 / Lawrence W. Sherman, John Braithwaite, Heather Strang, Geoffrey C. Barnes.

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Datafile

Contributor:

Sherman, Lawrence W.

Braithwaite, John.

Strang, Heather.

Barnes, Geoffrey C.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 2993.

ICPSR ; 2993

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR Version, 2006-03-30.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

The Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE) project compared the effects of standard court processing with the effects of a restorative justice intervention known as conferencing for four kinds of cases: drunk driving (over .08 blood alcohol content) at any age, juvenile property offending with personal victims, juvenile shoplifting offenses detected by store security officers, and youth violent crimes (under age 30). Reintegrative shaming theory underpins the conferencing alternative. It entails offenders facing those harmed by their actions in the presence of family and friends whose opinions they care about, discussing their wrongdoing, and making repayment to society and to their victims for the costs of their crimes, both material and emotional. These conferences were facilitated by police officers and usually took around 90 minutes, compared with around ten minutes for court processing time. The researchers sought to test the hypotheses that (1) there would be less repeat offending after a conference than after a court treatment, (2) victims would be more satisfied with conferences than with court, (3) both offenders and victims would find conferences to be fairer than court, and (4) the public costs of providing a conference would be no greater than, and perhaps less than, the costs of processing offenders in court. This study contains data from ongoing experiments comparing the effects of court versus diversionary conferences for a select group of offenders. Part 1, Administrative Data for All Cases, consists of data from reports by police officers. These data include information on the offender's attitude, the police station and officer that referred the case, blood alcohol content level (drunk driving only), offense type, and RISE assigned treatment. Parts 2-5 are data from observations by trained RISE research staff of court and conference treatments to wh... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02993

Contents:

Part 1: Administrative Data for All Cases; Part 2: Observations of Court Cases; Part 3: Case-Based Observations of Non-Drunk-Driving Conferences; Part 4: Offender-Based Observations of Non-Drunk-DrivingConferences; Part 5: Observations of Drunk-Driving Conferences; Part 6: Year 0 Survey Data from Non-Drunk-Driving OffendersAssigned to Court and Conferences; Part 7: Year 0 Survey Data from Drunk-Driving Offenders Assignedto Court and Conferences

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Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

Start: 1995; and end: 1999.

OCLC:

61153273

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