Teaching Faculty Profiles

Heather Strang
Lecturer in Criminology, University of Pennsylvania; Director, Centre for Restorative Justice, Australian National University; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Criminology , University of Cambridge

B.A. University of Sydney, 1967; M.A. University of Melbourne, 1994; Ph.D. Australian National University, 2000

Email: heather.strang@anu.edu.au
See also: Academy of Experimental Criminology: Fellows

Research Areas

Heather Strang is an experimental criminologist who has worked with police departments and criminal justice agencies in Australia, the US and the United Kingdom. In the early 1990's, Dr. Strang conducted a series of studies monitoring the character of homicide in each Australian jurisdiction based on information collected from police files. From 1995 until 2000 she directed the RISE (Reintegrative Shaming Experiments) project, evaluating restorative justice conferences delivered by the Australian Federal Police as an alternative to normal criminal justice processing. Since 2001, she has continued this research with eight experiments funded by the British Home Office involving the development and testing of restorative justice programmes for different kinds of offences and offenders at various points in the justice system. She has a special interest in victims of crime which continues to be the focus of her own research.

Current Projects

As Director of the Centre for Restorative at the Australian National University, Dr Strang is directing a ten-year follow-up of over 3,000 victims and offenders who have participated in restorative justice meetings in Canberra, London, Northumbria and Thames Valley. She continues to publish on findings emerging from the restorative justice studies conducted over the past decade.

Academic Positions Held

1994- present : Research Fellow, Regulatory Institutions Network, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University
2005- present: Lecturer in Criminology, Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania
2006- present: Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Criminology , University of Cambridge

Career and Recent Professional Awards

Elected Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology

Member, Scientific Commission of the International Society of Criminology

Member of the Advisory Committee for Victims of Restorative Justice

Representative Publications

Repair or Revenge: Victims and Restorative Justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002 (paperback edition published 2004).

“Repairing the Harm: Victims and Restorative Justice,“ with Lawrence W Sherman, Utah Law Review, vol. 2003, no. 1, pp 15 - 42, 2003.

Restorative Justice and Family Violence, with John Braithwaite (eds.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Restorative Justice and Civil Society, with John Braithwaite (eds.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Restorative Justice: From Philosophy to Practice with John Braithwaite (eds.), Ashgate, Aldershot, 2000.

Restorative Justice: The Evidence, with Lawrence W Sherman, London, Smith Institute.

“Victim evaluations of face-to-face restorative justice conferences: A quasi-experimental analysis,“ with Lawrence W Sherman, Caroline M Angel, Daniel J Woods, Sarah Bennett, Dorothy Newbury-Birch & Nova Inkpen. Journal of Social Issues, 62 (2), 281-306, 2006.

“Effects of face-to-face restorative justice on victims of crime in four randomized controlled trials,“ with Lawrence W Sherman, Caroline Angel, Daniel J Woods, Geoffrey C Barnes, Sarah Bennett, Meredith Rossner and Nova Inkpen Journal of Experimental Criminology, vol 1, no 3, pp367-395, 2005.

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