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Mediation, Restorative Justice and Social Reintegration of Offenders: The Effects of Alternative Sanctions on Punishment

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Empirical criminological research of the last decades has confirmed the validity of previous doubts that punishment may not be the best way of crime prevention. Already Beccaria (Dei Delitti e delle Pene – Von den Verbrechen und von den Strafen. Berlin: Berliner wissenschafts-Verlag, 1764; 2005) discussed the “useless frequency of criminal sentences, which have never made people better” (2005, p. 48). So-called alternative sentences, generally known under the heading of mediation, victim-offender restitution or restorative justice, may actually have greater potential to reduce the conflicts and the harm caused by crime than punishment. This is especially true when the victims are women and children. Yet despite the encouraging results of recent research, traditional criminal justice has a hard time integrating these new possibilities of dealing with offenders because it cannot combine it easily with the principle that justice and the protection of the public require punishment. It would also necessitate changes in the training of the legal profession and a new and expanded perception of the role of judges. This chapter will discuss the recent developments of mediation, its implementation in different countries, and its potential for the solution of societal conflicts such as the victimisation of the most vulnerable: women and children.

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    Source: TOA statistics, which have been collected since 1993 by Kerner and colleagues (2005).

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Kury, H. (2016). Mediation, Restorative Justice and Social Reintegration of Offenders: The Effects of Alternative Sanctions on Punishment. In: Kury, H., Redo, S., Shea, E. (eds) Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28424-8_10

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