Summary
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Conferencing is probably a good idea. However, it is not as trouble-free as optimists argue nor as dreadful as skeptics fear. On items I can compare, my findings from a small set of cases in two jurisdictions in Australia are strikingly similar to Maxwell and Morris' (1993) major study of conferencing in New Zealand. (author's abstract)
Link: http://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/50344/kdpaper1.pdf
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