Ministry of Justice evaluation: implementing restorative justice schemes (Crime Reduction Programme) first year report
This is the first year report of Home Office-funded pilot studies of three restorative justice projects.
The report focuses on the processes of development and setting up of the three restorative justice schemes funded by the Home Office under its Crime Reduction Programme from mid-2001: CONNECT, the Justice Research Consortium and REMEDI.
It describes in detail the aims and content of the schemes and their early efforts to become established.
The process of setting up the schemes took more time than expected and some schemes did not reach what they would see as their normal, routine working until summer 2002. This report provides a record of the important initiation and implementation stages of this project.
Subsequent reports focus on the process of restorative justice, the subsequent development of the schemes and the outputs and outcomes of restorative justice, with the evaluation finishing at the end of 2006.
