The handbook of victim offender mediation
Subtitle: an essential guide to practice and research
By: Mark S. Umbreit ; sponsored by the Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking.
Contributors: Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
Subjects: Restorative justice.; Victims of crimes.; Mediation.; Criminals -- Rehabilitation.
Description: "The Handbook of Victim Offender Mediation is the first resource to provide a conceptual and research-based framework and a practical process for mediating a wide variety of criminal conflicts between victims of crime and their offenders. Written by Mark Umbreit, an international pioneer in the field, this comprehensive handbook is based on the empirically grounded principles of restorative justice through victim offender mediation.

Step by step, it clearly defines how the process works, shows how to identify appropriate victim and offender participants, and reveals what it takes to prepare both sides for the upcoming meeting, which is facilitated through a humanistic, dialogue-driven form of mediation.".

"The Handbook of Victim Offender Mediation also shows how to establish a safe place for dialogue and outlines the most efficient methods for conducting an effective, sensitive, and often emotion-laden victim offender mediation.

In addition, the author provides practical information for developing ongoing programs and instructions for training mediators, establishing case referral criteria, executing case management procedures, and developing strategies for obtaining referrals from courts and probation officers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-412) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Restorative justice through victim offender mediation; title: Philosophy, practice, and context. Humanistic mediation: a transformative journey of peacemaking; title: Guidelines for victim-sensitive mediation and dialogue with offenders / with Jean Greenwood; title: The mediation process: phases and tasks / with Jean Greenwood; title: Multicultural implications of victim offender mediation / with Robert B. Coates; title: Case studies / with Terri Grob; title: National survey of victim offender mediation programs / with Jean Greenwood; title: Program development issues; title: What we are learning from research. The impact of victim offender mediation: two decades of research / with Robert B. Coates; title: Cross-national assessment of victim offender mediation / with Robert B. Coates and Ann Warner Roberts; title: Victim offender mediation in the United States: a multisite assessment / with Robert B. Coates; title: Victim offender mediation in Canada: a multisite assessment; title: Victim offender mediation in England: a multisite assessment / with Ann Warner Roberts; title: Emerging issues. Advanced mediation and dialogue in crimes of severe violence / with William Bradshaw and Robert B. Coates; title: Potential hazards and opportunities; title: Appendixes. A. Resources: organizations, publications, videotapes; title: B. Directory of VOM programs in the United States; title: C. Program profiles; title: D. Promising practices and innovations; title: E. Summary of forty VOM empirical studies / with Robert B. Coates; title: F. Assessing participant satisfaction with VOM / with William Bradshaw.