Other documents and publications

Family Conferencing and Juvenile Justice: The Way Forward or Misplaced Optimism?
Edited by Christine Alder and Joy Wundersitz. The contributors to this work share a concern about the possible effects of the criminal justice system on juvenile offenders. However, they have different views as to how justice should be administered. They question whether it is possible to punish without stigmatisation and whether the prevention of re-offending can be achieved. They consider whether family conferencing is the best alternative. (Based on papers given at the Family Group Conferences: Debating the Issues seminar, June 1993, Melbourne)

Making Amends: Final Evaluation of the Queensland Community Conferencing Pilot
Hennessey Hayes, Tim Prenzler and Richard Wortley, Centre for Crime Policy and Public Safety, School of Justice Administration, Griffith University, Queensland, July 1998. In response to amendments to the Juvenile Justice Act 1992, the Queensland Department of Justice began trialing a program of community conferencing in April 1997. Three separate pilot programs were trialed in three jurisdictions; Ipswich, Logan and Palm Island. An independent evaluation team from Griffith University's Centre for Crime Policy and Public Safety was engaged to conduct the final evaluation of the Queensland conferencing pilot. (A commentary on the report can be found immediately below.)

A New Approach To Juvenile Justice: An Evaluation of Family conferencing in Wagga Wagga
David Moore with Lubica Forsythe. This report is concerned with a process known as the family group conference, the basic principles of which are simple. In the wake of an offence, and where guilt is admitted, victims, offenders, and their supporters are given an opportunity to meet in the presence of a coordinator or facilitator. Conference participants are encouraged to discuss the direct or indirect effects of the incident on them. They may then negotiate plans for repairing the damage and minimising further harm arising from that incident. The conference process is guided by participatory democratic principles. It seeks a just response to a harmful breach of social and/or legal norms.

New Zealand Ministry of Justice - Restorative Justice: The Public Submissions, 1998
In New Zealand in 1994 the Chief District Court Judge forwarded proposals to the Government for the use of community group conferences in the adult criminal jurisdiction. Family group conferences are an integral part of the New Zealand youth justice system and the proposal was seen as building on that approach.

Restorative Justice and a Better Future
Professor John Braithwaite. The Dorothy J. Killam Memorial Lecture, presented by Professor John Braithwaite, Australian National University, at Dalhousie University, 17 October 1996

Restorative justice in diverse and unequal societies (pdf file - size 62kB)
Kathleen Daly. Paper presented at Flinders University Symposium on Criminal Justice in Diverse Societies, Adelaide, Dec 1998.

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