Making Amends: Mediation and Reparation in Criminal Justice

by Davis,Gwynn

• ISBN13: 9780415067089
• ISBN10: 0415067081
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134918508
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-06-19
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Examines the experiences of the reparative schemes set up within the criminal justice systems of UK, USA, and Germany in the 1980s. The authors reveal how the criminal justice institutions were unresponsive to these attempts to recast justice.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Developments in England and Wales

Victim offender mediation: a review of the research in the United States

Victim offender mediation in the Federal Republic of Germany

The Exeter youth support team

The Totton reparation scheme

Dominant themes: diversion and mitigation

Neglected themes (one): negotiation and expiation

Neglected themes (2): the victim interest

Conclusion

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