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Sycamore Insight

Sycamore Tree Project: Academic research overview

The Effectiveness of the Sycamore Tree Project: A Review of the Research The Sycamore Tree Project is a restorative justice

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Stories

TV Crew captures crime victims in prison encounter

TV Cameras were permitted in a high security prison to film the Sycamore Tree Project in Queensland, for the first time.

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Stories

Video: Inside the Sycamore Tree Project

In June 2014, six crime survivors talked exclusively about their experiences inside the breakthrough restorative justice program called The Sycamore

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A judge and a politician visit the Sycamore Tree Project

The final session of the Sycamore Tree program is open to public figures who can visit the prison to join the

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My gratitude is to never offend again.

A Western Australian prison inmate describes his experiences in the Sycamore Tree Project I was apprehensive at first about joining

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Sycamore Tree Project is ‘tougher on crime’

Our guest writer is restorative justice practitioner Melissa, whose life was turned upside down as a result of a bank robbery in April

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Learning respect for a victim’s pain – a powerful speech to prisoners and criminal justice officials

A Brisbane mother of three gave this powerful speech after completing the 8-week Sycamore Tree program. Belinda Cairns (pictured at

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Shafts of Light: A book of Sycamore stories

A collection of stories and quotations from participants in the Sycamore Tree Project in Western Australia. They are compiled in

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Helen and Fiona tell their story

Listen to an interview of two victim participants in the Sycamore Tree Project in Western Australia. Fiona was randomly and

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I wanted revenge but found compassion

Our guest writer is school restorative justice practitioner Michelle Jackson, who has been a victim participant on three occasions in the Sycamore Tree

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Sycamore Insight

Sycamore Tree Project in Western Australia – Video

Successfully used in over 20 countries Sycamore Tree Project (STP) bring victims and unconnected offenders together for eight 2 hour

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Today I look in the mirror and I see an offender that wants to change

A prisoner gave this speech at the concluding session of the program in a correctional facility in Western Australia. Firstly, I

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Sycamore Insight

Understanding the ripple effect of social damage

How can we understand the big picture of crime when our system is so tightly focussed on the perpetrator? It

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Crime victim finds a voice – in prison

In the second row of the mini-bus, Lyn Smith, in her early forties, will soon tell six prisoners about the

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Sycamore Insight

Justice that can see what the court ignores

“Restorative justice recognises all the people harmed by the crime. It affects the victim. It affects the victim’s family. It

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