The Handbook of Victim Offender Mediation: An Essential Guide to Practice and Research

The Handbook of Victim Offender Mediation......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Tables and Exhibits......Page 12
Foreword......Page 16
Preface......Page 20
Acknowledgments......Page 24
Introduction: Restorative Justice Through Victim Offender Mediation......Page 26
Part One: Philosophy, Practice, and Context......Page 50
1. Humanistic Mediation: A Transformative Journey of Peacemaking......Page 52
2. Guidelines for Victim-Sensitive Mediation and Dialogue with Offenders......Page 68
3. The Mediation Process: Phases and Tasks......Page 84
4. Multicultural Implications of Victim Offender Mediation......Page 114
5. Case Studies......Page 134
6. National Survey of Victim Offender Mediation Programs......Page 160
7. Program Development Issues......Page 182
Part Two: What We Are Learning from Research......Page 208
8. The Impact of Victim Offender Mediation: Two Decades of Research......Page 210
9. Cross-National Assessment of Victim Offender Mediation......Page 228
10. Victim Offender Mediation in the United States: A Multisite Assessment......Page 244
11. Victim Offender Mediation in Canada: A Multisite Assessment......Page 264
12. Victim Offender Mediation in England: A Multisite Assessment......Page 284
Part Three: Emerging Issues......Page 302
13. Advanced Mediation and Dialogue in Crimes of Severe Violence......Page 304
14. Potential Hazards and Opportunities......Page 340
Appendixes......Page 362
A. Resources: Organizations, Publications, Videotapes......Page 364
B. Directory of VOM Programs in the United States......Page 378
C. Program Profiles......Page 400
D. Promising Practices and Innovations......Page 414
E. Summary of Forty VOM Empirical Studies......Page 424
F. Assessing Participant Satisfaction with VOM......Page 446
References......Page 456
Index......Page 462
About the Authors......Page 472