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Abbey. J. Porter
"A controlled study on the effects of restorative conferencing onvictims of crime has shown that it reduces post-traumatic stresssymptoms. The study was performed by Dr. Caroline M. Angel, a lecturerin criminology at the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the Universityof Pennsylvania, USA. As significant as it is unusual, the study took aclinical approach, finding that conferencing had measurable positiveeffects on the emotional health of victims of crime. This account provides information about the study,as well as comments from Dr. Angel, a dual-doctorate recipient in nursing and criminology."
