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Mediation offers education for offenders, crime victims

Mastbaum, Larry
June 4, 2015

Source: (1997) Minnesota: The Journal.

Victims of crime seldom have a voice in events that can affect their lives for weeks, months, or even years afterwards. In Brown county, however, a new program offers victims of certain crimes a personal stake in the legal process and a chance to ask offenders the age-old question: “Why me?” (excerpt)

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