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Whole-school Restorative Practices Implementation
Research and Evidence Base

Can Restorative Justice Conferencing Reduce Recidivism?

This is a working paper from the National Bureau for Economic Research.  "This paper studies the effect of a restorative justice intervention targeted at youth ages 13 to 17 facing felony charges of medium severity (e.g., burglary, assault). Eligible youths were randomly assigned to participate in the Make-it-Right (MIR) restorative justice program or to a control group in which they faced criminal prosecution."

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Whole-school Restorative Practices Implementation
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Disproportionate Minority Contact in Georgia's Juvenile Justice System

In 2016, The Georgia Juvenile Justice State Advisory Group (SAG) commissioned this study to track disproportionate minority contact with the Juvenile Justice System in counties throughout the state of Georgia.

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Whole-school Restorative Practices Implementation
Research and Evidence Base

Research Brief on Restorative Justice Practices

This research brief is the first in a series of reports on the concept, application and effectiveness of restorative justice practices in criminal and juvenile justice. It describes the overall premise of restorative justice, defines the prominent restorative justice approaches being used in the justice system today, and summarizes findings from contemporary synthesis research on the effectiveness of restorative justice in reducing recidivism and promoting other positive outcome for offenders and victims.

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Whole-school Restorative Practices Implementation
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The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in State Prisons

This report was authored by Ashley Nellis, Ph.D., Senior ResearchAnalyst at The Sentencing Project. Substantial research assistance wasprovided by former Research Fellows Skye Liston and Savannah En.

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Whole-school Restorative Practices Implementation
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Reducing Re-arrest Through Community-Led, Police-Initiated Restorative Justice Diversion Tailored for Youth

This is a recently published reseach study which evaluated misdemeanor cases that occurred in Minneapolis between September 2014 and December 2018 finding that youth who participated in restorative justice diversion after arrest were less likely to experience re-arrest in the following year compared to those processed traditionally.

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Whole-school Restorative Practices Implementation
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System Reforms to Reduce Youth Incarceration

This report was written by Richard Mendel, Senior Research Fellow at The Sentencing Project. It argues that "to reduce overreliance on youth incarceration, alternative-to-incarceration programs must be supported by youth justice systems that heed adolescent development research, make timely and evidence-informed decisions about how delinquency cases are handled, and institutionalize youth only as a last resort when they pose an immediate threat to public safety."

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Whole-school Restorative Practices Implementation
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Effective Alternatives to Youth Incarceration

This report was written by Richard Mendel, Senior Research Fellow at The Sentencing Project. It identifies six program models that consistently produce better results than incarceration, and it details the essential characteristics required for any alternative-to-incarceration program – including homegrown programs developed by local justice system leaders and community partners – to reduce young people’s likelihood of reoffending and steer them to success.

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Whole-school Restorative Practices Implementation
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Why Youth Incarceration Fails

This report was written by Richard Mendel, Senior Research Fellow at The Sentencing Project. It summarizes the evidence documenting the serious problems associated with the youth justice system’s continuing heavy reliance on incarceration and makes recommendations for reducing the use of confinement.

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Restorative Justice Diversion
Research and Evidence Base

Restorative Justice Diversion Overview

This resource provides a detailed overview of Restorative Justice Diversion and important elements of RJD program development.  This resource was created by the Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice

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Restorative Justice Diversion
Research and Evidence Base

Transformative justice and restorative justice: Gender-based violence and alternative visions of justice in the United States

This article, written by Mimi E. Kim and published in the International Review of Victimology, explores emerging visions of justice in its application to gender-based violence, as well as the contrasting trajectories of restorative justice and transformative justice, and the liberatory vision and practices of transformative justice.

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