Victim-Offender Mediation with Youth Offenders in Europe: An Overview and Comparison of 15 countries

Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; 1. A comparative perspective on Victim-Offender Mediation with youth offenders throughout Europe, Anna Mestitz; Part I Anglo-Saxon countries; 2. Victim-Offender Mediation in England and Wales, David Miers and Mike Semenchuk; 3. Victim-Offender Mediation with juvenile offenders in Ireland, Kieran O'Dwyer; Part II Northern countries; 4. Victim-Offender Mediation in Sweden, Lottie Wahlin; 5. Victim-Offender Mediation with juvenile offenders in Norway, Siri Kemény; 6. Victim-Offender Mediation with juvenile offenders in Finland, Ossi Eskelinen and Juhani Iivari; 7. Victim-Offender Mediation with juveniles in Poland, Beata Czarnecka-Dzialuk and Dobrochna Wójcik; Part III Continental countries; 8. Victim-Offender Mediation with juveniles in Austria, Veronika Hofinger and Christa Pelikan; 9. Victim-Offender Mediation for juveniles in Belgium, Anne Lemonne and Inge Vanfraechem; 10. Victim-Offender Mediation with juveniles in Luxembourg, Paul Schroeder; 11. Victim-Offender Mediation with juvenile offenders in Germany, Michael Kilchlin; 12. Chance of Victim-Offender Mediation in Hungary, Maria Herczog; 13. Victim-Offender Mediation and Conferencing with juvenile offenders in The Netherlands, Ytje Minke Hokwerda and Ido Weijers; Part IV Southern 'Latin' countries; 14. Mediation and reparation for young offenders in France: an overview, Philip Milburn; 15. Victim-Offender Mediation and youth offenders: the Italian experience, Anna Mestitz and Simona Ghetti; 16. Juvenile penal mediation in Spain: the experience in Catalonia, Jaume Martín Barberan;Conclusion; 17. Juvenile offenders and the legal system: what we have learned from Victim-Offender Mediation, Simona Ghetti.