Victim-Offender Mediation in Europe: Making Restorative Justice Work

For the first time ever, this book brings together extensive reports on the practice of victim-offender mediation in eight European countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Poland and the United Kingdom). 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. A multitude of information was collected in each of these countries, and is here presented and analysed in a comparative study.