Source: (2008) Resolution: News from the Restorative Justice Consortium. 30.
This June saw the long awaited publication of the fourth and final report
on the Home Office Crime Reduction Programme Restorative Justice Research
Projects, focusing on the effect of Restorative Justice on reconviction. The
report conclusively demonstrates that RJ reduces offending and that it reduces
reconviction costs by such a degree as to have the potential to save the criminal
justice system millions of pounds. In fact the savings produced by the three pilot
schemes studied by the project more than cover the £5million cost of the research
itself! The RJC awaits a response from government to these dramatic findings. (excerpt)
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