Essays about: "Victim Offender Mediation"
Found 3 essays containing the words Victim Offender Mediation.
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1. Piecing the Puzzle: Restorative Justice with Children and Young Offenders in Scandinavia, an Interview Study with Professionals
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbeteAbstract : The modern roots of restorative justice in Scandinavia go back to the emergence of the mediation movement in Norway in the mid 1970s (Miers, 2001), a process that reached Sweden in the late 1980s (Wahlin, 2005). Victim Offender Mediation (VOM) in Sweden, and Youth Punishment (YP) in Norway, are some of the processes based on the primary components of restorative justice. READ MORE
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2. An Unfamiliar Crime Prevention Strategy : Collective Opinion on Restorative Justice Conferences
University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för samhällsvetenskapAbstract : Introduction: Renewed efforts for controlling criminality in Sweden are demanded by the Swedish Government. Restorative justice conferences (RJC), in Sweden known as mediation, can be described as a meeting mediated by a trained facilitator in which the offender and the victim of a crime meets, sometimes together with their friends and family. READ MORE
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3. Victim-offender mediation in Sweden and South Africa
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to investigate victim-offender mediation in Sweden and South Africa and then compare the two systems. Victim-offender mediation is a conflict resolution method. The victim and offender take part in a meeting with an impartial third party acting as mediator. READ MORE