The aim of this contribution is to deal with the purposes, benefits and caveats of comparative studies in the field of restorative justice.

A general overview of victim-offender mediation with young offenders in Europe

The article describes the federal statistics on Victim-Offender-Mediation (VOM) cases in Germany.

Although restorative justice is often presented as a victim-oriented reform of criminal justice procedures, there is a relative dearth of research and theory into the experiences of victims within restorative justice.

This paper presents a reflection on the reasons which motivate the evaluation of restorative justice practices.

This article describes the various restorative justice practices in Norway in which we have played significant roles, and then proposes a model for evaluation based upon these.

The restorative ideology is about the democratic and active participation of victims, offenders and the communities affected by crime in the reaching of consensual solutions to deal with its consequences.

While references are frequently made in the restorative justice literature to the desirability of eliciting empathy towards their victims from offenders, little is known about whether it is, in fact, worthwhile to do so.