Mediation And Criminal Justice

Author : Martin Wright,Burt Galaway
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Community-based corrections
ISBN : UOM:39076001038038

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Mediation and Criminal Justice by Martin Wright,Burt Galaway Pdf

The last decade has seen the growth of mediation as an alternative to existing forms of resolution of the criminal justice process. The rise of mediation has been inspired by varied motives: to give victims better outcomes; to relieve the pressures on the courts; to offer courts new ways of resolving disputes; and to restore justice to the community outside the criminal justice system. To what extent can mediation schemes achieve the aims of their exponents? Wright and Galaway assess the international experiences of mediation in theory and in practice. A team of researchers and practitioners draw together experiences in North America, Western Europe and Japan, and examine the extent to which different forms of mediation have succeeded in their aims. They address key problems such as how far it has extended the reach of the criminal justice system. As a major international assessment of the progress of mediation, this book will be essential reading for researchers and lecturers in criminology, social work and law as well as for all concerned with the rights of victims and offenders and with the criminal justice system. "The articles are consistently well written and provide a great breadth of information about the developments in the field." --The Alternative Newsletter "Although mediation of civil disputes has become a growth industry over the past decade, extending the concept into the criminal field has proved more problematic. This first-of-its-kind collection by a group of well-known scholars and practitioners helps explain why this is so . . . . This volume makes a real contribution to the analysis of criminal justice reform. For upper-level students and faculty members." --Choice"A collection with sufficient detail for anyone interested in mediation." --Times Higher Education Supplement "Wright and Galaway have collected a valuable group of essays relating to the use of mediation in the criminal justice system. . . . The essays are generally excellent. . . . They offer a range of valuable insights into some of the fundamental questions facing the dispute resolution community." --The Alternative Newsletter "Mediation and Criminal Justice, edited by two distinguished criminal justice experts, makes an important contribution: A primary intent of the book is to consider the benefits that can be realized by bringing together victims and offenders who don't know each other, and by emphasizing reparative rather than retributive justice. . . . The book provides a diverse set of perspectives from which to form opinions about the merits and drawbacks of mediation." --Judicature

Author : H. Messmer,H.U. Otto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401580649

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Restorative Justice on Trial by H. Messmer,H.U. Otto Pdf

Victim-offender mediation schemes have experienced significant growth in the last decade. They are seen as an important and innovative alternative to the traditional sanctions of the criminal justice system. After a critical look at mediation schemes in the United States and Canada, most European countries have also increased their efforts to develop informal strategies to deal with deviant behavior. In terms of their legal and organizational base, it turns out that type, extent, and capacities for development are quite different in the individual countries -resulting in a remarkable diversity of programs with different outcomes. The contributions in this book are revised and edited versions of papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop Conflict, Crime and Reconciliation: The Organization of Welfare Intervention in the Field of Restitutive Justice in April 1991 at Il Ciocco, Italy. The chapters document the present stage of restorative justice in the individual countries, critically assess legal constraints and public needs, discuss the organizational requirements of implementation, and also evaluate outcomes in a broader context of crime and social policy. In the long run, this book should encourage further debates in the field of restorative justice and help build valid guidelines for an international evaluation research.

Author : EUFORUMRJ
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789058670359

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Victim-Offender Mediation in Europe by EUFORUMRJ Pdf

This publication is an initiative of the European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice, and results from its first conference which was held in Leuven, Belgium, from 27-29 October 1999. The first six chapters consider victim-offender mediation and restorative justice from a more theoretical point of view. These analyses of theoretical, legal, policy, ethical and societal aspects of mediation and restorative justice have been written by well-known scholars in this field. The second part of the book consists of overviews of the situation with regard to victim-offender mediation in the eight European countries in which it is currently the most developed (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Poland and the United Kingdom). For these last chapters, a multitude of information was collected in each of these countries, and this is presented and analysed comparatively. The following topics are discussed for each of the countries: the history of victim-offender mediation in that particular country, the legal context, policy and implementation, the number of programmes and the way they function, the practice of mediation, the number and characteristics of cases, evaluation and research, and finally challenges, obstacles and expectations for the future. This is probably the first time that such extensive reports on the practice of victim-offender mediation in Europe have been brought together in this way. In publishing this book the European Forum is seeking to contribute to the realisation of one of its objectives, namely providing people all over Europe - and beyond - with information on victim-offender mediation and restorative justice in other countries. Restorative justice is a relatively new field and is still very much evolving. A full exchange of information and ideas will contribute to this process.

Author : Gwynn Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134918508

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Making Amends by Gwynn Davis Pdf

Reparation, or making amends, is an ancient theme in criminal justice. It was revived in both Europe and North America in the 1980s as a practical alternative both to retributivism, and to the various utilitarian projects traditionally associated with retributive justice.Making Amends examines the practice of these schemes in the UK, USA, and Germany, and shows how criminal justice institutions were unresponsive to these attempts to cast justice in a new form. Yet the experiments reflected an abiding dissatisfaction with criminal courts and with the manner in which justice is conceived and expressed within the criminal framework. The authors' conclusions therefore have implications for the workings of the criminal justice system as a whole.

Author : Mark S. Umbreit
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0787958700

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The Handbook of Victim Offender Mediation by Mark S. Umbreit Pdf

Written by Mark Umbreit, internationally known for his work in restorative justice, this indispensable resource offers an empirically grounded, state-of-the-art analysis of the application and impact of victim offender mediation, a movement that has spread throughout North America and abroad. The Handbook of Victim Offender Mediation provides practical guidance and resources for offering victim meditation in property crimes, in minor assaults, and, more recently, with crimes of severe violence, including with family members of murder victims who request to meet the offender.

Author : Jo-Anne M. Wemmers
Publisher : Kugler Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 9062991440

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Victims in the Criminal Justice System by Jo-Anne M. Wemmers Pdf

Author : Andrew Woolford,R.S. Ratner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134087129

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Informal Reckonings by Andrew Woolford,R.S. Ratner Pdf

Informal Reckonings is a critical examination of mediation, restorative justice and reparations and how they reinforce yet potentially transform the formal justice system.

Author : R. A. M. van Schijndel
Publisher : Maklu
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Confidential communications
ISBN : 9789046603048

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Confidentiality and Victim-offender Mediation by R. A. M. van Schijndel Pdf

Author : Ivo Aertsen,European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice,Council of Europe Publishing
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287154511

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Rebuilding Community Connections - Mediation and Restorative Justice in Europe by Ivo Aertsen,European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice,Council of Europe Publishing Pdf

Published as part of the integrated project "Responses to violence in everyday life in a democratic society"

Author : Mark S. Umbreit,Jean Greenwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : PURD:32754071785640

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Guidelines for Victim-sensitive Victim-offender Mediation by Mark S. Umbreit,Jean Greenwood Pdf

These Guidelines assist administrators in developing or enhancing their restorative justice programs. It provides practical guidance for mediators to facilitate balanced & fair mediation, which will ensure the safety & integrity of all the participants. Chapters: victim-offender mediation: a national perspective; guidelines for victim-sensitive mediation & dialogue with offenders; recommendations for program development; results of a survey of victim-offender mediation programs in the U.S.; what is humanistic mediation?; profiles of programs; & promising practices. Bibliography.

Author : Lode Walgrave
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135998745

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Repositioning Restorative Justice by Lode Walgrave Pdf

Restorative justice has become an increasingly important element in reform and change to criminal justice systems throughout the western world, and there are many reasons for satisfaction with the progress that has been made --from the point of view of victims, offenders, the level and incidence of reoffending, and in terms of public opinion. At the same time there has been cause for concern, not least to do with the confusion on aims that has accompanied the rapid spread of restorative justice practices, an over-estimate of its possibilities, a blurring of concepts and a lack of attention to legal rights and processes. This book, based on papers presented at the 5th international conference held at Leuven, Belgium in 2002, aims to provide an overview of recent experience of restorative justice in the light of these concerns. The central theme is the positioning, or repositioning, of restorative justice in contexts where it can offer hope to communities both fearful of crime and looking for more socially constructive responses to crime. At the same time restorative justice practitioners seek definition in relation to the kinds of crime it is appropriate to apply restorative justice to, how it relates to different forms of punishment, to rehabilitation, and how it fits in with criminal justice systems and the law of different countries --how to reconcile the informal, participatory philosophy of restorative justice with formal legal processes and the need for legal safeguards.

Author : Law Commission of Canada
Publisher : Canadian Government Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Alternatives to imprisonment
ISBN : UCBK:C085013502

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Transforming Relationships Through Participatory Justice by Law Commission of Canada Pdf

This report described the development and current state of two groups of participatory justice programs. Restorative justice is a process of resolving crime and conflict, and includes victim-offender mediation, community and family group conferencing, sentencing circles and community boards or panels. Consensus-based justice operates in the non-criminal context, and includes community mediation, court-connected mediation, judge-led settlement conferencing, and collaborative family lawyering.

Author : European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062952382

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Victim-offender Mediation in Europe by European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice Pdf

This publication is an initiative of the European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice, and results from its first conference which was held in Leuven, Belgium, from 27-29 October 1999. The first six chapters consider victim-offender mediation and restorative justice from a more theoretical point of view. These analyses of theoretical, legal, policy, ethical and societal aspects of mediation and restorative justice have been written by well-known scholars in this field. The second part of the book consists of overviews of the situation with regard to victim-offender mediation in the eight European countries in which it is currently the most developed (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Poland and the United Kingdom). For these last chapters, a multitude of information was collected in each of these countries, and this is presented and analysed comparatively. The following topics are discussed for each of the countries: the history of victim-offender mediation in that particular country, the legal context, policy and implementation, the number of programmes and the way they function, the practice of mediation, the number and characteristics of cases, evaluation and research, and finally challenges, obstacles and expectations for the future. This is probably the first time that such extensive reports on the practice of victim-offender mediation in Europe have been brought together in this way.In publishing this book the European Forum is seeking to contribute to the realisation of one of its objectives, namely providing people all over Europe - and beyond - with information on victim-offender mediation and restorative justice in other countries. Restorative justice is a relatively new field and is still very much evolving. A full exchange of information and ideas will contribute to this process.

Author : Mark Umbreit
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781666776102

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Victim Meets Offender by Mark Umbreit Pdf

Victim Meets Offender (1993) is truly a seminal publication in the restorative justice movement. It represents the first multi-state empirical study of the impact of restorative justice dialogue through the first and most widely used restorative justice practice, namely victim offender mediation (also referred to as victim offender reconciliation, victim offender conferencing, or victim offender dialogue). Examining programs in California, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Texas, this book provides comparison group data on client satisfaction, victim perceptions of fairness, and completion of restitution. Recidivism data is also included. After more than three decades, Umbreit’s seminal publication remains the most widely cited restorative justice study and has influenced policy development and practice in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

Author : Martin Wright
Publisher : Waterside Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Corrections
ISBN : 9781872870359

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Justice for Victims and Offenders by Martin Wright Pdf

Martin Wrightís original ground-breaking and influential analysis of the defects of the adversarial system of justice, plus the arguments in favour of a more constructive and victim-oriented approach. A book that has had a major influence on victimsí issues and restorative justice - and that is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand these developments. One of the most compelling arguments about the need for change in relation to victims and offenders. A critically acclaimed and key work in the annals of criminal justice.