Profiles

Dr Heather Strang

As the Director of the Centre, Dr Strang is responsible for coordinating day-to-day research activities, seminars and program visitors. Over the past five years she has managed a major research project in Canberra known as the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE), investigating the effectiveness of a restorative justice alternative to normal criminal justice processing of offenders.

She has a special interest in victims of crime, which is the focus of her own research contribution to RISE.

She is currently directing a series of UK experiments for the British Home Office which involves the development and testing of the impact of restorative justice programs at various points in the criminal justice system.

 PUBLICATIONS:(Since appointment at ANU):

1. Books:

2002, Repair or Revenge: Victims and Restorative Justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 298 plus xx pp. (paperback edition published 2004)

2002, Restorative Justice and Family Violence (co-edited with John Braithwaite), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 288 plus xi pp.

2001, Restorative Justice and Civil Society, (co-edited with John Braithwaite), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 241 plus xii pp.

2000, Restorative Justice: From Philosophy to Practice, (co-edited with John Braithwaite), Ashgate, Aldershot, 224 plus xv pp.

2. Book Chapters:

In press, ‘Does Restorative Justice Reduce Victimization?’, (co - authored with Lawrence Sherman) in B Welsh and D Farrington (eds) Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims and Places. Wadsworth Publishing

2004, ‘Is Restorative Justice Imposing its Agenda on Victims?’ in H Zehr and B Toews (eds) Critical Issues in Restorative Justice, New York, Criminal Justice Press.

2003, ‘Captains of Restorative Justice: experience, legitimacy and recidivism by type of offence’ (co - authored with Lawrence W Sherman and Daniel J Woods) in E G M Weitekamp and H J Kerner (eds) Restorative Justice in Context: International Practice and Directions, Willam Publishing, Devon UK, pp 229 - 256.

2002, ‘Restorative Justice and Family Violence’ (co - authored with John Braithwaite) in Restorative Justice and Family Violence (co-edited with John Braithwaite), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

2001, ‘Introduction: Restorative Justice and Civil Society’, in H Strang and J Braithwaite (eds) Restorative Justice and Civil Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 1 - 13.

2001, ‘The Crime Victim Movement as a Force in Civil Society’ in H Strang and J Braithwaite (eds) Restorative Justice and Civil Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 69-82.

2001, ‘Justice for Victims of Young Offenders: the Centrality of Emotional Harm and Restoration’, in A Morris & G Maxwell (eds) Restorative Conferencing for Young Offenders, Hart Publishing, Oxford. (Reprinted in 2003 G Johnstone (ed) A Restorative Justice Reader: Texts, Sources, Context, Cullompton, Devon, Willam Publishing).

2000, ‘The Future of Restorative Justice’, in D Chappell and P Wilson (eds) The

Australian Criminal Justice System: 2000 and Beyond , Butterworths, Sydney, pp 22-33.

1999 ‘Restorative Justice: Current Developments and Research Findings, in Proceedings of the Australian Institute of Criminology Symposium on Crime, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.

1999, ‘Research on Conferencing: the Canberra Experiments’, in A Morris and G Maxwell Youth Justice in Focus, Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington.

1995, 'Child Abuse Homicides', in D Chappell and S Egger, Australian Violence: Contemporary Perspectives 11, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, pp 71-86.

3. Journal Articles:

Forthcoming, (co - authored with Lawrence W. Sherman), ‘Victim Evaluations of Face-to-Face Restorative Justice Conferences: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis’, Journal of Social Issues.

2005 (co -authored with Lawrence W. Sherman, Caroline Angel, Daniel Woods, Meredith Rossner, Geoffrey C. Barnes, Sarah Bennett and Nova Inkpen,

‘Effects of Face-to-Face Restorative Justice on Victims of Crime in Four Randomized, Controlled Trials’, Journal of Experimental Criminology, 1: 3.

2004 (co - authored with Lawrence W Sherman), ‘Verdicts or Inventions? Interpreting Results from Randomized Controlled Experiments in Criminology’ American Behavioral Scientist (special issue devoted to Experimental Methods in the Political Sciences edited by Donald P Green and Alan S Gerber, Yale University), 47: 5, pp 575 - 607.

2004 (co - authored with Lawrence W Sherman), ‘Experimental Ethnography: The Marriage of Qualitative and Quantitative Research’ Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 595, pp 204 - 222, September.

2003 (co - authored with Lawrence W Sherman), ‘Repairing the Harm: Victims and Restorative Justice’ Utah Law Review, vol 2003, no 1, pp 15 - 42.

2001 (co-authored with C Carcach, R Goldney & P Grabosky), ‘Temporal Clustering of Child Homicide: Contagion or Illusion?’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology . vol 34, no 2, pp 182-192.

1995, 'Replacing Courts with Conferences’, Policing, vol 11, no. 3, pp 212-220.

4. Monographs:

2000, (co - authored with Lawrence W. Sherman & Daniel J Woods), Recidivism Patterns in the Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments, Canberra, Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www.aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html).

1999, (co-authored with Lawrence Sherman, Geoffrey Barnes & John Braithwaite), Experiments in Restorative Policing: A Progress Report, Canberra, Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www. aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html).

1998, (co-authored with Lawrence Sherman, Geoffrey Barnes, John Braithwaite & Nova Inkpen), Experiments in Restorative Policing: A Progress Report, Canberra, Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www.aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html).

1997 (co - authored with Lawrence W. Sherman), ‘The Right Kind of Shame for Crime Prevention’, RISE Working Paper No. 1. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www. aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html).

1997 (co - authored with Lawrence W. Sherman), ‘The Victim’s Perspective’, RISE Working Papers No. 2. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www. aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html).

1997 (co - authored with Lawrence W. Sherman), ‘Restorative Justice and Deterring Crime’, RISE Working Paper No. 4. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www. aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html).

1997 (co - authored with Lawrence W. Sherman, John Braithwaite, Geoffrey C. Barnes, Jane Christie-Johnston, Sandra Smith, and Nova Inkpen), Experiments in Restorative Policing. ‘Reintegrative Shaming of Violence, Drink Driving & Property Crime: A Randomised Controlled Trial’. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www. aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html).

1996 (co -authored with Lawrence W. Sherman), ‘Policing Domestic Violence: The Problem-Solving Paradigm’, Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. (www. aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html).

5. Reports and Other Publications:

2000, Restorative Justice in Australia, A Report to the Criminology Research Council. Ms 38 pp. (www.aic.gov.au/rjustice).

1999, ‘Crime and Restorative Justice: a Communitarian Approach’, in The Australia Institute, no. 19, June, pp 5-6.

1996, ‘Child Victims of Homicide’, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.

(Prior to appointment at ANU):

1. Edited Books:

1993, Homicide: Patterns, Prevention and Control, Canberra, Australian Institute of Criminology.

1992, International Trends in Crime: East Meets West (with J Vernon), Canberra, Australian Institute of Criminology.

1991, Australian Violence: Contemporary Perspectives (with D Chappell and PN Grabosky), Canberra, Australian Institute of Criminology.

2. Book Chapters:

1993, 'Law Enforcement as a Harm-Reduction Strategy in Rotterdam and Merseyside' (with D Chappell, T Reitsma and D O'Connell), pp 118-126, in N Heather et al.Psychoactive Drugs and Harm Reduction: From Faith to Science, Whurr Publishers, London.

1993, 'Does childhood sexual abuse contribute to alcohol, heroin and/or other drug problems?', pp. 16-18 in G Bammer. Proceedings of a One-Day Workshop: Stage 2 Working Papers, Feasibility Research into the Controlled Availability of Opioids, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU, Canberra.

1991, 'Education', in Comparative Analysis of Illicit Drug Strategy, a report prepared for the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra: published in the NCADA Monograph series by the Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Canberra, pp 53-88.

3. Journal Articles:

1992, 'Violence and the prevention of violent crime in Australia' (with D Chappell), Studies on Crime and Crime Prevention, Vol. 1 No. 1, National Council for Crime Prevention, Sweden.

1990, 'Preventing violence: the work of the National Committee on Violence' (with D Chappell), International Annals of Criminology, vol. 28, no. 1 & 2.

1990, 'Domestic violence - findings and recommendations of the National Committee on Violence' (with D Chappell), Australian Journal of Family Law, vol. 4, no. 3.

1990, 'Violence: a way of life?', Legal Service Bulletin, vol. 15, no. 4.

1990, 'AIDS in prisons', National AIDS Bulletin, June, 1990.

1989, 'Violence Against Children' (with K Dwyer), Violence Today No. 3, National Committee on Violence.

4. Reports:

1993, Homicides in Australia 1991-92, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.

1993, Homicide: Patterns, Prevention and Control (edited with S Gerull), Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.

1993, 'Characteristics of Homicide in Australia 1990-91', pp 5-20, in Homicide: Patterns, Prevention and Control, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.

1992, Homicides in Australia 1990-91, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.

1991, Homicides in Australia 1989-90, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.

Selected unpublished papers: (Since appointment to ANU):

2000, ‘Victims and Restorative Justice’, a paper presented at Ditchley Park conference, ‘Restorative Justice and Other New Penal Patterns’, June 21-23.

1999, ‘Restoring Victims: An International View’, plenary address to Australian Institute of Criminology/Victims of Crime Assistance Service conference, ‘Restoration for Victims of Crime: Contemporary Challenges.’ Melbourne, September.

1999, ‘Restorative Justice: Current Developments and Research Findings’, plenary address to the Australian Institute of Criminology 3 rd National Outlook Symposium on Crime – Mapping the Boundaries of Australia’s Criminal Justice System, Canberra, March.

1999, ‘Crimes Against Schools: the Potential for a Restorative Justice Approach’, International Forum On Initiatives For Safe Schools: School Violence Prevention And Juvenile Protection - What Works?, Seoul, Korea, June.

1999, (co-author Lawrence W Sherman) ‘Policing Domestic Violence: The Problem-Solving Paradigm’, www.aic.gov/rjustice

1998, ‘Alternatives to Court: Restorative Justice and Conferencing’, Judicial Conference of Australia Annual Colloquium, The Courts and the Future’, Gold Coast, November.

1998, ‘Form Following Philosophy: Implications for Courthouse Architecture and Design of a Different Way of ‘Doing Justice’’, plenary address to American Institute of Architects’ International Conference on Courthouse Design’, Toronto, Canada, September.

1998, ‘Restoring Victims, Offenders and Communities: the Restorative Justice Approach’ (co-authored with Charles Pollard), ‘What Works’ Conference, Manchester, England, September.

1998, ‘Victims and Restorative Justice: Preliminary Findings from the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments’, International Society of Criminology Conference, Seoul, Korea, August.

1997, ‘Restorative Justice and the Victim’s Perspective’, a paper presented to the American Society of Criminology meeting, San Diego, November.

1997, ‘Community Conferencing: Does it Work?’, a paper presented at the Office for Public Management Conference, ‘Calling Young Offenders to Account’, London, October.

1997, ‘Reintegrative Shaming and Victims of Crime’, a paper presented at the 9th International Symposium on Victimology, Amsterdam, August.

1997, ‘Evaluating Reintegrative Shaming: Conferencing, Court and the Victim's Perspective’, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Brisbane, July.

1996, ‘Conferencing and the Victim’s Perspective’, a paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meeting, Chicago, November.

1996, (co-author Lawrence W Sherman) ‘Predicting Domestic Violence From Police Records: Victoria 1988-92’, a paper presented to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Baltimore, February.

1995, ‘The Victim’s Perspective in Shaming Conferences’, a paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meeting, Boston, November.

1994, 'Family Group Conferencing and Police Reform', a paper prepared for the 31st Autumn Conference of the Association of Chief Police Officers, Warwick, England, October 1994.

1994, 'Conferencing: a New Approach in Community Policing', a paper prepared for the Eighth International Police Exhibition and Conference, London, October 1994.

1994, 'Conferencing: a New Approach to Drink Driving', a paper presented at a Conference on the Prevention of Alcohol-Related Road Crashes: Social and Legal Approaches, Centre for Crime Policy and Public Safety, Griffith University, Brisbane, August 1994.

Prior to appointment at ANU:

1993, 'Violence Prevention: National Directions', a paper presented at the Preparatory Meeting for the United Nations Congress Workshop on the Prevention of Violent Crime, Montreal, Canada, November 1993.

1993, 'Child Abuse Homicides in Australia: Incidence, Circumstances and Interventions', a paper presented at the Second International Conference on Injury Control, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1993.

1992, ‘Violence and Crime: the Potential for a Restorative Justice Approach’, paper presented at Ditchley Park conference, ‘The Phenomenon of Street Violence in Modern Industrial Societies and Methods of Policing’, October.