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Promoting Good Practices of Victim Offender Mediation in Serbia: A Journey to Improving Quality Standards of Practices.

Hrncic, Jasna
June 4, 2015

Source: (2006) Papers presented at the Fourth Conference of the European Forum for Restorative Justice, “Restorative justice: An agenda for Europe”, Barcelona, Spain, 15-17 June 2006.

In may 2006 a New Code for Criminal Proceedings was adopted by the Serbian Parliament which would be enacted on the first of januari 2007. It would make provisions for a “settlement with the injured party” for adult offenders. Also, for the first time in Serbia, this would provide a legal basis for implementation of victim offender mediation for adult offenders. (excerpt)

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