NCJ Number
180156
Editor(s)
Lode Walgrave
Date Published
1998
Length
390 pages
Annotation
This volume contains papers presented at the international conference on Restorative Justice for Juveniles, held at the University of Leuven, Belgium, in May 1997.
Abstract
The papers are organized in three parts. The first part deals with restorative justice in terms of legitimacy, victim-offender conferencing and the need for safeguards, objections to the restorative justice approach to working with juvenile offenders, the nature of responsibility and restorative justice, the importance of shame in restorative justice, and the application of concepts of linkage and integration-disintegration to restorative justice. The second part looks at restorative justice in formal settings and covers mediation and community service in juvenile justice legislation in Europe, the juvenile justice system in Scotland, Italian experiences with victim-offender mediation in the juvenile justice system, mediation and community service in the Belgian juvenile justice system, restorative justice in Canada, and victim-offender mediation in the Swedish and German juvenile justice systems. The third part discusses restorative justice in practice, with emphasis on restoring justice in communities in Canada, the Reparative Probation Program in Vermont, victim-offender mediation in criminal conflicts involving minors, the recidivism rate of community service as a restorative justice sanction compared with traditional juvenile justice measures, and community service and mediation for juvenile offenders in Brussels. The volume concludes with some reflections on the viability of restorative justice in the juvenile justice system. References, footnotes, tables, and figures