Mediation And Criminal Justice

Download or read book Mediation and Criminal Justice written by Martin Wright and published by Sage Publications (CA). This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The rise of mediation has been inspired by varied motives: to give victims or offenders better outcomes; to relieve the pressures on the courts; to offer courts new ways of resolving disputes; and to restore justice to the community outside the criminal justice system. To what extent can mediation schemes achieve the aims of their exponents? Martin Wright and Burt Galaway assess the international experience of mediation in theory and in practice. A team of researchers and practitioners draw together experience in North America, Western Europe and Japan, and examine the extent to which different forms of mediation have succeeded in their aims. They address key problems such as how far mediation has offered real benefits to victims, to offenders, or to both; how far it has merely extended the reach of the criminal justice system." --