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Recent UK legislation on offenders and victims of crime: restorative justice or co-option?

Williams, Brian
June 4, 2015

Source: (2004) Papers presented at the Third Conference of the European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice, ‘Restorative Justice in Europe: Where are we heading?’, Budapest, Hungary, 14-16 October. Downloaded 22 September 2005.

This paper reviews some recent criminal justice legislation and policy in England and Wales and considers
whether the changes which have been introduced genuinely implement new, restorative approaches or whether
attempts have been made to purloin the rhetoric of restorative justice for other purposes. Author’s abstract.

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