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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821325403321

Autore

Davis Gwynn

Titolo

Making amends : mediation and reparation in criminal justice / / by Gwynn Davis with Heinz Messmer, Mark Umbreit, and Robert Coates

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992

ISBN

1-85628-407-7

1-134-91850-X

1-134-91851-8

1-280-33828-8

0-203-16101-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

344.41/03288

344.1043288

Soggetti

Reparation (Criminal justice) - Great Britain

Victims of crimes - Legal status, laws, etc - Great Britain

Mediation - Great Britain

Criminal justice, Administration of - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [220]-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Making amends Mediation and reparation in criminal justice; Copyright; Contents; Notes on the author and the contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Developments in England and Wales; Chapter 3 The Exeter Youth Support Team; Chapter 4 The Coventry Reparation Scheme; Chapter 5 The Totton Reparation Scheme; Chapter 6 Dominant themes: diversion and mitigation; Chapter 7 Neglected themes I: negotiation and expiation; Chapter 8 Neglected themes II: the victim interest; Chapter 9 Victim-offender mediation in Germany

Chapter 10 Victim-offender mediation: a review of research in the United States Chapter 11 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Reparation, or making amends, is an ancient theme in criminal justice. It was revived in both Europe and North America in the 1980's as a practical alternative both to retributivism, and to the various utilitarian projects traditionally associated with retributive justice. Making Amends examines the practice of these schemes in the UK, USA, and



Germany, and shows how criminal justice institutions were unresponsive to these attempts to cast justice in a new form. Yet the experiments reflected an abiding dissatisfaction with criminal courts and with the manner in which justice is conceived and...