Victim-Offender Mediation: Three Decades of Practice and Research (2004) [1]
Victim-Offender Mediation: Three Decades of Practice and Research (2004) [1]
The current findings suggest that to the extent that specific programs are confined to offering VOM relatively early at the pre-sentence stage (as a formal part of the criminal prosecution), this may pose an impediment for establishing mediated contact in (very) serious cases in which victims experience high levels of harm.