Adult restorative justice services are receiving an extra $2 million in funding by the Government, Justice Minister Simon Power announced today.
Restorative justice helped address the harm done to victims, held offenders to account for their crimes, and reduced re-offending, Mr Power said.
"What we've found is this stuff works, that chance of re-offending after doing one of these restorative justice conferences drops back by about 20 percent.
"It's the first real evaluation that's been able to hook into re-offending rates and we're always keen for things that stop recidivism."
At the moment restorative justice received about $2m a year.
In 2011/2012 and 2012/1013 restorative justice would receive an extra $500,000, and in 2013/2014, and the following years, an extra $1m, Mr Power said.
He said he was not writing off spending more on restorative justice in the future.
"I think that capacity is there at the moment to handle the increases, now we've announced 'look it's been successful' and it's a nice change from stories where these re-offending rates aren't a success."
