Dr Heather Strang is a criminologist and Director of the Centre for Restorative Justice in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.  Over the past five years she has directed the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE), investigating the effectiveness of restorative conferencing as an alternative to normal criminal justice processing of offenders.

Heather has a special interest in victims of crime, which is focus of her own research contribution to RISE. She will publish a book on victims and restorative justice next year.  

Heather is currently in the United Kingdom, as Co-Project Director of the Justice Research Consortium, managing a further series of experiments to test the impact of restorative conferencing in violent and property crime at various points in the criminal justice system.

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'Victims have for too long been the forgotten parties in criminal justice.

I am interested in finding out whether restorative justice can offer them a more satisfying experience that will provide the kind of emotional as well as material restoration that they seek.


Heather Strang 
 

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Leading Edge. Heather is currently interested in empirical research directed at measuring the effectiveness of restorative justice interventions in terms of its crime reduction potential for offenders and, just as importantly, its potential for giving victims a role in the resolution of their case which will meet their needs and help them to achieve a sense of closure about the crime they have experienced.

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Reach Heather Strang at  heathers@coombs.anu.edu.au

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