The Restorative Justice and Mediation Collection

Do you need practical guidelines for establishing a victim-offender mediation program in your community? Would you like to contact other victim-offender programs and obtain information on what other programs are doing? Do you need information on how to effectively serve victims in a cross-cultural mediation forum?

The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is pleased to announce the availability of a new resource series that provides guidance on establishing victim-sensitive restorative justice programs. This series is a valuable resource for probation and parole agencies, judicial agencies, religious groups, victim service organizations, community-based organizations, or others interested in a restorative conflict resolution process.

The Restorative Justice and Mediation Collection includes the following documents:

• National Survey of Victim-Offender Mediation Programs in the United States
  
  
• Guidelines for Victim-Sensitive Victim-Offender Mediation: Restorative Justice Through Dialogue
  
  
• Multicultural Implications of Restorative Justice: Potential Pitfalls and Dangers
  
  
• Family Group Conferencing: Implications for Crime Victims
  
  
• Directory of Victim-Offender Mediation Programs in the United States

All five documents are available online for download.