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Prolific offenders cause great harm to communities. A restorative conference within an integrated approach to offender management provides the offender with the motivation to change their behaviour and provides victims & witnesses with answers.
In his own words, three things ruled Peter’s childhood: crime, drink and violence. Involved in petty offending from the age of 6, he soon moved on to burglary, robbery, car crime and drug abuse. A restorative conference changed and saved his and protected many other potential victims from him.
Cambridge & Sheffield University Press Release
Restorative justice reduces crime by 27%
The experience of “restorative justice”, in which offenders confront their crime victims, reduces the frequency of reconviction by an average of 27%.
Murder the most violent of crimes
Arnella the mother of the victim Paul went to court and heard the verdict of 5 years imprisonment for both for manslaughter. Understandably deep in grief some weeks later she was with a friend who had heard about Restorative Practice and she advised Arnella to see if that could help.