회복적 사법 프로그램의 효과에 대한 평가연구 결과와 쟁점들

Review on evaluation researchs about restorative justice programs

Increased interest in the restorative justice programs is accompanied by concern for whether they work and through what basic processes. Yet the task of evaluating restorative justice program seems on its face to be daunting because models are so varied and do not readily lend themselves to conventional methods of evaluation research and performance measurement. In this article, I 1) review results of completed evaluation researches in terms of dividing process evaluation(studies of the extent and quality of program processes) and outcome evaluation(studies of the intermediate and long-term effects of these processes) and 2) examine impediments to evaluating restorative justice programs and 3) suggest ways of addressing them.