Stewart Lynn, Thompson Jennie, Beaudette Janelle N, Buck Manon, Laframboise Renée, Petrellis Tania
1 Correctional Service of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2018 Sep;62(12):3910-3927. doi: 10.1177/0306624X17752274. Epub 2018 Feb 2.
The federal correctional agency in Canada offers victim-offender mediation services to address serious crime. The current study used survival analysis to compare revocation rates of 122 offenders who participated in facilitated face-to-face meetings to a matched sample of 122 of non-participants. Results indicated that there was no significant difference between revocation rates when offenders participated while incarcerated, although the trend was that participants did better. When the meetings were held in the community post-release, however, participants were significantly more likely to spend a longer period of time under supervision in the community without returning to custody and were less likely to be revoked than their matched counterparts. The findings support participation in restorative justice sessions while under community supervision for higher risk offenders with histories of serious and violent crimes. The authors discuss how factors not controlled in the matching procedure may have contributed to this effect.
加拿大联邦惩教机构提供受害者与犯罪者调解服务以处理严重犯罪。本研究采用生存分析方法，将122名参与面对面调解会议的犯罪者的撤销率与122名未参与者的匹配样本进行比较。结果表明，在监禁期间参与调解的犯罪者与未参与者的撤销率没有显著差异，尽管趋势是参与者表现更好。然而，在社区释放后举行会议时，参与者在社区接受监督的时间显著更长，且无需返回拘留所，被撤销的可能性也低于匹配的未参与者。研究结果支持对有严重暴力犯罪史的高风险犯罪者在社区监督下参与恢复性司法会议。作者讨论了匹配程序中未控制的因素可能如何导致了这一结果。
