Victim evaluations of face-to-face restorative justice conferences: A quasi-experimental analysis

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 281-306

  Strang, Heather ^a   Sherman, Lawrence ^b   Angel, Caroline M ^b   Woods, Daniel J ^b   Bennett, Sarah ^b   Newbury Birch, Dorothy ^a   Inkpen, Nova ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY; CANBERRA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHUMBRIA; THAMES VALLEY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746891603     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2006.00451.x     Document Type: Review

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