Examine the impact of face-to-face restorative justice conference (RJC)meetings led by police officers between crime victims and their offenders on victims’post-traumatic stress symptoms.

Short-term effects of restorative justice conferenceson post-traumatic stress symptoms among robberyand burglary victims: a randomized controlled trialCaroline M. Angel&Lawrence W. Sherman&Heather Strang&Barak Ariel&Sarah Bennett&Nova Inkpen&Anne Keane&Therese S. RichmondPublished online: 19 March 2014#Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014AbstractObjectivesTo examine the impact of face-to-face restorative justice conference (RJC)meetings led by police officers between crime victims and their offenders on victims’post-traumatic stress symptoms.MethodsTwo trials conducted in London randomly assigned burglary or robbery caseswith consenting victims and offenders to either a face-to-face restorative justiceconference (RJC) in addition to conventional justice treatment or conventional treat-ment without a RJC. Post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) were measured with theImpact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) within 1 month of treatment for 192 victims.