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Restorative Justice and Adolescent Sexual Offending.

Mercer, Vincent
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.

Sexual offending and gendered harm presents particular challenges to a restorative approach. Understandably very often RJ has been tentative and hesitant about practice in such a sensitive and complex area. This workshop will outline the approach taken in Greater Manchester UK by the AIM Project working in conjunction with the Greater Manchester Youth Justice Trust Family Group Meetings Project.(excerpt)

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