Restorative policing, conferencing and community

Authors: Hines D.¹; Bazemore G.²

Source: Police Practice and Research, Volume 4, Number 4, December 2003 , pp. 411-427(17)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This paper describes the experience of a police department with the restorative conferencing process in a fast growing urban/suburban city. We describe how conferencing changed the focus of the police response to juvenile offenders and offered an alternative to court and formal processing that allowed a high proportion of moderate to serious offenders to be supervised in the community as a diversion option. In particular, conferencing became a police tool for increasing community participation in youth crime decision making and a technique for successfully building community capacity to resolve conflict and repair harm without recourse to adversarial intervention.

Keywords: Police reform; Restorative justice; Conferencing; Community building

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15614260310001631307

Affiliations: 1: Woodbury Police Department, Woodbury, MN, USA 2: Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991, USA

Publication date: 2003-12-01