Fairness and restorative justice: effects of high decision control and participant collaboration

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Title: Fairness and restorative justice: effects of high decision control and participant collaboration
Author(s): Saulnier, Alana D.; Sivasubramaniam, Diane; Clarke, Stephanie
Abstract: Procedural justice research primarily examines disputants' reactions to court, where outcomes are determined by judges/juries. It is less focused on restorative justice procedures, where disputants themselves choose outcomes. In a laboratory study, participants (n = 46) distributed a resource and judged procedural fairness, following an encounter with either a biased or a neutral experimenter, and a polite or impolite confederate. There was a significant interaction of experimenter bias and confederate politeness on fairness judgments. Findings suggest that, to understand offender responses to interactive legal procedures, such as restorative justice conferences, we must consider the behavior of all conference participants.
Publication type: Conference paper
Source: Paper presented at the 4th International Congress of Psychology and Law, held in conjunction with the 2011 Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Miami, Florida, United States, 02-05 March 2011
Publication year: 2011
Keyword(s): Fairness judgments; Procedural justice; Restorative justice
Publisher: American Psychology-Law Society
Publisher URL: http://www.ap-ls.org/conferences/apls2012/index2012.html
Peer reviewed