Author: Wan, Wai Yin
Title: The Impact of Criminal Case Conferencing on Early Guilty Pleas in the NSW District Criminal Court
Summary: The aim of this study was to test whether the legislative Criminal Case Conferencing (CCC) trial scheme had any impact on the number of late guilty pleas in courts affected by the legislation. A quasi-experimental research design was used, whereby outcomes for matters affected by the legislation (the intervention site) were compared with matters committed from all other NSW Local Courts (the comparison site). Interrupted time series analyses were employed to test whether the scheme had any impact on four markers of late guilty pleas. Only one of the four measures showed effects consistent with a reduction in late guilty pleas. There was a small decrease in trial registrations in the intervention site, but no corresponding reduction in the comparison site.
Details: Sydney: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 2010. 8p.
Source: Internet Resource; Bureau Brief Issue Paper no. 44
Year: 2010
Country: Australia
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Shelf Number: 118678
Keywords:
Criminal CourtsGuilty Pleas (New South Wales, Australia) |
