Reoffenders
(asked on 3rd June 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of participation in out-of-court restorative justice on reoffending rates.
This question was answered on 13th June 2016
As stated in the previous response to this question (PQ 36193), and in my letter to you of 27 May, there has been no assessment on the impact on reoffending rates of participation in restorative justice as part of an out of court disposal. However, government funded research examined the wider impact of restorative justice. This showed that restorative justice, by the conferencing method, has the potential to reduce the frequency of re-offending by 14%.