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| Title: | Victim-offender reconciliation with adult offenders in Germany - http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/hartmann.pdf |
| Description: | Criminologists and politicians in Germany have accepted victim offender reconciliation as a means of resolving crime and consequently determining sentence. The "WAAGE Hannover" described in this paper is an example of a pilot victim offender reconciliation program for adult perpetrators which has been integrated into the criminal justice system. Hartmann warns, however, that an intransigent prosecutorial attitude can impede efforts to resolve conflict and stabilise the victim offender circumstance. She asserts that criminal justice practitioners as well as the participants must want the process to work if restorative justice is to occur. |
| Category: | Victimology: Documents/studies/papers |
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| Date Added: | January 28, 2009 11:00:58 AM |
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| Paradigms and Paradoxes of Victimology http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/elias.pdf Elias provides a strong condemnation of the current state of victimology. Despite the growth of the intellectual discipline, he maintains that levels of victimisation around the world have increased. He argues that victimology has been coopted by a particular political agenda, that of law and order, which does not work in the best interests of most victims and survivors. He calls for a radical shift in attention away from victims of crime to victims in general, from the construction of symbolic policies to the implementation of tangible ones and from a manipulation of punishment to the construction of positive reinforcements. Details | Report |
| Conflicts of victims' interests and offenders' rights in the criminal justice system : a European pe http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/groenhuijsen.pdf Groenhuijsen describes the 1994 proceedings of the European Forum for Victims Services at Falkirk in Scotland, where an attempt was made to define victims' rights in the context of those of the offender. The Forum agreed that the emancipation of the victim is not intended to be at the expense of the rights of the offender in the penal process. He refutes the notion of a zero sum game and argues that in some cases the rights of offenders and victims may coincide. He opposes changes to the criminal trial to make the victim a third party and a direct adversary of the defendant. Details | Report |
| Preventing peer victimisation in schools http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/rigby.pdf Rigby provides a theoretical overview of the trend towards victimisation of children at the hands of schoolyard "bullies". He contends that schoolyard violence is often assumed to be part of growing up. Consequently the seriousness of the problem is often understated. He outlines several strategies to deal with incidents of bullying. Details | Report |
| Crime and victim surveys http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/vandijk.pdf Van Dijk presents an overview of the historical development and some of the findings of the two International Crime Surveys which have been conducted. In seeking an understanding of victimisation, the surveys explore the needs of victims as well as their attitudes towards sentencing and their satisfaction with police work. The author concludes that the image of a vengeful victim is fallacious. He reports that victims are not unhappy with noncustodial alternatives in some situations. Victims may, in fact, be seen as allies for governments who wish to sponsor improved situational and community based crime prevention strategies. Details | Report |
| Group work with victims of crime : mutual aid in practice http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/oliphant.pdf The Victims of Crime Service in South Australia designs programs to assist people who have been victims of crime, using group work as an important element in their package of services. One of the major group work programs is a group for women whose children have been sexually abused. This paper describes the group and attempts to make some of the connections between the practice and the theories that underpin it. Details | Report |
| Preventing criminal victimisation : the case for an intersectoral response to victimisation : a Sout http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/hunt.pdf Hunt subscribes to a multi agency approach to preventing crime. He warns that a lack of cooperation between government and nongovernment agencies can obstruct crime prevention efforts. Consequently, agencies should focus their efforts on the identification and development of common purposes and functions. He concludes with a list of key ingredients for crime prevention based on his experience in South Australia. Details | Report |
| The Prevalence and Consequences of Child Victimization. http://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/fs000179.txt Preliminary findings from a study of 4,023 adolescents and their parents indicate a significant number of today's youthful population have been victims of sexual and physical abuse and have personally witnessed incidents of violence against others. For many, consequences of these experiences include Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and drug and alcohol abuse. The study is part of the National Survey of Adolescents, a household survey sponsored by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and conducted by the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. Details | Report |
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| The effect of interview method and response rate on victim survey crime rates http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/stangeland.pdf Stangeland reports on the effects of methodology on the results of a victim survey in southern Spain. His survey technique involved interviewing two independent groups about their victimisation experience, using either face to face or telephone methods. In the telephone interviews he obtained a better response rate, while the face to face interviews showed higher crime rates. He concludes there is good reason to be suspicious of research that attempts to compare findings that derive from different data collection techniques. Details | Report |
| The implications of victim-oriented developments in the criminal justice system for female victims http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/warner.pdf Warner describes several victim oriented developments which have impacted on women. Changes to the law and procedure in the area of rape, domestic violence and homicide have modified rules in such a way as to minimise the chance of guilty parties being acquitted. She suggests offenders' rights have been adversely affected by these changes but the old rules provided too many opportunities for injustice to occur to assaulted women. Details | Report |