1 Restorative justice in Europe: introducing a research endeavour
2 The evaluation of restorative justice: lessons to be learned from a data collection in Europe
3 Out-of-court but close to justice
Empirical research on restorative justice in Austria
4 Research, practice and policy partnerships
Empirical research on restorative justice in Belgium
5 Providing mediation as a nation-wide service
Empirical research on restorative justice in Finland
6 Depicting the development of victim-offender mediation
Empirical research on restorative justice in Germany
7 The spontaneous bottom-up rise of mediation with youth offenders
Empirical research on restorative justice in Italy
8 Evidence based policies?
Empirical research on restorative justice in the Netherlands
9 From local trial projects to state owned services
Empirical research on restorative justice in Norway
10 The quest for sustaining research
Empirical research on restorative justice in Poland
11 Variations on a theme
Empirical research on restorative justice in England and Wales
12 Empirical research on restorative justice in Europe: perspectives
Sicco van Bolhuis on 17 Feb 11In Spring 2010, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) carried out a review of anti-social behaviour (ASB) in England and Wales. This included asking victims about their experience of reporting ASB to the police, and inspecting the quality of the processes that forces use in tackling and responding to the problem. Working with the Police Science Institute at Cardiff University, the results were used to answer the question of how the police can best tackle ASB. 9365 ANTI