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Victim Offender Meetings: A Restorative Focus for Victims

Gilman, Eric
June 4, 2015

Source: (2004) Restorative Justice Online. December 2004 Edition.

A sensitive issue for restorative justice programmes is how to approach crime victims about participating in the programmes. In this article, Eric Gilman, restorative justice coordinator for Clark County Juvenile Court, suggests that programmes should respond to victims restoratively, viewing them as people who have needs growing out of the harms they experienced in the crime, rather than simply as possible participants in a VOM process.

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