SOCI 410 - Research Seminar on Experiments in Restorative Justice

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University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Strang. This seminar focuses on the ongoing data collection of Penn's Jerry Lee Program of Randomized Controlled Trials in Restorative Justice, the largest program of field experiments in the history of criminology. Since 1995, this research program has randomly assigned over 3400 victims and offenders to either conventional justice or restorative conferences of victims, offenders and their families, in Canberra (Australia), London, Northumbria and Thames Valley (all in UK). The offenders have all been willing to acknowledge their guilt to their victims (or the community), and to try to repair the harm they have caused. The seminar's purpose is to introduce students to the theory and practice of RJ, to discuss findings emerging from the Jerry Lee Program, and to provide students with a major, supervised research experience using extensive observational, interview and criminal offending (self-report) data. Students will learn how to analyze survey data in the context of randomized experiments in justice, as well to understand the conceptual and methodological issues central to expermental criminology.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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