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AN INTRODUCTION TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN PORTUGAL

de Brito, Paulo
June 4, 2015

Source: (-0001) Restorative Justice Online February 2008 Edition

“In July 2007, Portugal enacted statutory law regulating victim-offender mediation. This essay seeks to address how the provisions of Law no. 21/2007, of 12 June, can be understood within Europe’s international developments of the restorative justice movement.”

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