Factors Influencing Participant's Satisfaction in a Victim-offender Program

Victim Offender Overlap in Intimate Partner Violence

ERIN A. MARSH Victim Offender Overlap in Intimate Partner Violence (Under the direction of DR. LISA MUFTIC) Victim offender overlap is a relatively new area of research with most studies having focused on applying this concept to the study of assault and homicide. Research in intimate partner violence has found that there exists a group of victim offenders or individuals who are involved in ini...

Assessing Victim Satisfaction with

This monograph reports on the development and use of the Victim Satisfaction with Offender Dialogue Scale (VSODS). We will: (1) present a rationale for the use of a standardized scale and discuss problems in the use of satisfaction data; (2) describe the psychometric development of the VSODS scale; (3) provide guidelines for the use of the VSODS scale; and, (4) present victim satisfaction resul...

Non-verbal communication analysis in Victim-Offender Mediations

In this paper we present a non-invasive ambient intelligence framework for the semi-automatic analysis of nonverbal communication applied to the restorative justice field. In particular, we propose the use of computer vision and social signal processing technologies in real scenarios of Victim-Offender Mediations, applying feature extraction techniques to multi-modal audio-RGB-depth data. We co...

Participation in Victim–Offender Mediation: Lessons Learned From Observations

Victim and offender self-reports of alcohol involvement in crime.

Research suggests that a decreasing share of violent crime is attributable to offenders who had been drinking alcoholic beverages. Surveys of victims indicate that the rate of alcohol-involved violent crimes (i.e., crimes in which the perpetrators had been drinking, as perceived by the victims) decreased 34 percent from 1993 to 1998, whereas the rate of non-alcohol-involved violence decreased 2...