New Zealand Groups Issue Guidelines on Best Practices for Restorative Justice Processes.

Source: (2005) VOMA Connections. Summer(20): 5-12. Downloaded 21 October 2005.

(Editor’s note: The following article is divided
into three parts, which can be given the abbreviated
terms, “Introduction,” “Principles,” and
“Statement.” In 2004, all three parts were published
together as one document. The New
Zealand Ministry of Justice prepared the first
two parts and the New Zealand-based Restorative
Justice Exchange wrote the third. The latter
two parts of this article, the “Principles” and the
“Statement,” are each introduced by their separate
corporate authors, the Ministry of Justice
and the Restorative Justice Exchange. Occasionally
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