NCJ Number
188407
Date Published
2001
Length
65 pages
Annotation
This technical report describes the instruments and methods used in Year 2 of the South Australia Juvenile Justice (SAJJ) Research on Conferencing Project, which is intended to measure the performance of family conferencing in dealing with juvenile offenses.
Abstract
This report should be read in conjunction with SAJJ Technical Report No. 1, which provides an overview of the legal and organizational context of family conferencing in South Australia, theoretical aims, sampling plan, and early results from the SAJJ project. Part I of this Technical Report No. 2 describes features of the SAJJ sample of conferences and the people interviewed, updating and amending preliminary material that had been presented in Report No. 1, and it depicts changes that have occurred in the role of the South Australian police in the conference process. Sections in Part I describe the context of the field work; the sample of conferences observed; the sample of young offenders and victims interviewed; interview response rates, length, and elapsed time between the conference and interviews; change during 1999 and 2000 in South Australian conferencing; and the people who helped in the research. Part II describes the six instruments used in year 2 (March-July 1999), providing material on the source and rationale of question items. The six instruments are appended. 53 references