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Restorative justice and adolescent sexual offending

Mercer, Vincent
June 4, 2015

Source: (2006) “Newsletter of the European Forum for Restorative Justice” pp.6-7

Adolescent sexual offending presents a number of challenges for workers within the criminal justice setting. Many of these challenges are especially problematic for this area of work but few are so unique that they don’t have similar parallels in more general work with offenders. One such concern is how to best address the needs and interest and as such can offer a potentially powerful tool to employ in working with adolescent sex offenders and the victims of their offending. (excerpt)

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