Abstract
This paper describes the experience of a police department with the restorative conferencing process in a fast growing urban/suburban city. We describe how conferencing changed the focus of the police response to juvenile offenders and offered an alternative to court and formal processing that allowed a high proportion of moderate to serious offenders to be supervised in the community as a diversion option. In particular, conferencing became a police tool for increasing community participation in youth crime decision making and a technique for successfully building community capacity to resolve conflict and repair harm without recourse to adversarial intervention.
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