Victims’ relation towards the offence and victim-offender mediation

Participation in Victim–Offender Mediation: Lessons Learned From Observations

Child care providers who commit sexual offences: a description of offender, offence, and victim characteristics.

The aim of this investigation was to undertake an exploratory analysis of child care providers who sexually offend against children and adolescents and the circumstances related to these offences. Archival Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS) reports were obtained from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and demographic and criminal characteristics for the offender, as well as i...

Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Victim-Offender Overlap

Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Victim-Offender Overlap Offenders are more likely than non-offenders to be victims, and victims are more likely than non-victims to be offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the stylized empirical fact is even widely ignored. The paper gives a ...

Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? an Econometric Analysis of the Victim‐offender Overlap

Offenders are more likely than non‐offenders to be victims, and victims are more likely than non‐victims to be offenders. So far, the overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime this stylized empirical fact is even widely ignored. One of the major limiting problems seems to be the lack of adequate individual data. This paper tries t...

“What! What kind of apology is this?”: The nature of apology in victim offender mediation

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Restorative justice Victim offender mediation Apology Juvenile offender Victim-sensitive communication This qualitative study examined the multiple perspectives of participants' experiences of a Victim Offender Mediation (VOM) program operating in a Midwestern city. Thirty-four face-to-face interviews were conducted with 37 participants, including juvenile offend...