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s the meaning and significance of a victim-offender mediation (VOM) prog . The authors conducted qualitative in-depth interviews with seven youth had recently participated in a VOM conference with the victims. Analys lying motivations for the offenders’ participation in the program, their em otential impact on the offenders for long-standing behavior change. Based o plications for future practice and research for juveniles offender rehabi Youth Offenders Speak About Victim-Offender Media Implications for Future Programs ort for restorative justice and victim-offender mediation programs, the grounded expression of restorative justice, has increased dramatic venile courts. A recent national survey found that virtually every U.S. s rating restorative justice policies and/or related practices for juveniles ( s of 2001, there were more than 300 victim-offender mediation in the U.S. t, 2001), and the numbers continue to rise. The theory and practice of re isible and influential in communities, and even entire justice systems, t uth Pacific. nty years nearly forty empirical studies in five countries have been co ffender mediation (Umbreit, Coates, and Vos, 2002). In recent years a s ©Regents of the University of Minnesota Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking School of Social Work, College of Education & Human Development Offender innesota ram from the point of view offenders and four sets of is of interview transcripts otional experience of the n these results, the authors litation through restorative