Laws Surrounding Mediation

Victim-Offender Mediation: An Alternative To The Criminal Justice System?

Abstract:Victims feel progressively baffled and estranged by our current frameworks for justice. Despite the fact that the criminal justice framework exists accurately, victims abused by criminal conduct have no legitimate remaining during the time spent getting justice. Traditionally, mediation is seldom used as a method of dispute resolution. Does restorative justice bring justice to the victim for the crimes of the criminal offender? The idea of mediation is to create an opportunity for both sides to voice themselves; to give the victim the opportunity to articulate the effect the crime has had on them while simultaneously allowing the offender to show repentance for his offence, owning up to his actions that have profoundly affected the victim while atoning for it.