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A victim-offender conference: putting the people most affected by a murder, the victims, at the centre of the process

Editor, Nancy
June 4, 2015

Source: (2009) Restorative Justice Newsletter, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales Government.

After two young men fight resulting in the death of one, it takes eight years before a victim-offender conference is held. The conference brings peace to both the victim’s mother and the offender.

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