Technical report of evaluation of the court-referred restorative justice pilot [pdf, 681 KB]
...and characteristics of the various samples and the reconviction analysis. The evaluation covered all referrals for court-referred restorative justice conferences made between 4 February 2002 and 3 February 2003 by judges in the four pilot courts (Auckland, Dunedin, Hamilton and Waitakere)1 for pilot ‘eligible’ offences. We drew data from a wide variety of sources: • we had access to the restorative justice database set up by the then Department for Courts, which contains info...