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Mediation is defined as the intervention of a third party to help two or more parties resolve their differences and reach a settlement. Reparation refers to the offender paying back the victim by material or nonmaterial means. There are currently over 70 Victim Offender Reconciliation Projects (VORP's) across North America. For the most part, such schemes intervene at the court stage of legal proceedings, sometimes between conviction and sentence. Victim/offender mediation in England, however, is in an early stage of development. There are no mediation schemes that divert disputes from the legal process, but a few community mediation projects obtain such referrals from other agencies or directly from the parties themselves. Projects in England most like the North American VORP's are referred to as court-based schemes. Most of these schemes presently operate between conviction and sentence. Other schemes that use victim/offender mediation are based on police-juvenile liaison panels. These panels are composed of representatives from several agencies, typically the police, probation, and social services. The panels review most cases involving juvenile offenders in order to decide w

Author

and collated by Tony F. Marshall and Susan Merry

Publisher

Bernan Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780113409730