Making Amends: Mediation and Reparation in Criminal Justice

by Gwynn Davis

Overview

Reparation, or making amends, is an ancient theme in criminal justice. It was revived in both Europe and North America in the 1980s as a practical alternative both to retributivism, and to the various utilitarian projects traditionally associated with retributive justice.Making Amends examines the practice of these schemes in the UK, USA, and Germany, and shows how criminal justice institutions were unresponsive to these attempts to cast justice in a new form. Yet the experiments reflected an abiding dissatisfaction with criminal courts and with the manner in which justice is conceived and expressed within the criminal framework. The authors' conclusions therefore have implications for the workings of the criminal justice system as a whole.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415067089
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/04/1992
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1300L (what's this?)

About the Author

Gwynn Davis, Heinz Messmer, Mark S. Umbreit, Robert B. Coates

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Developments in England and Wales; Chapter 3 The Exeter Youth Support Team; Chapter 4 The Coventry Reparation Scheme; Chapter 5 The Totton Reparation Scheme; Chapter 6 Dominant themes; Chapter 7 Neglected themes I; Chapter 8 Neglected themes II; Chapter 9 Victim-offender mediation in Germany, HeinzMessmer; Chapter 10 Victim-offender mediation, Mark S.Umbreit, Robert B.Coates; Chapter 11 Conclusion;