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A major Home Office study followed all cases referred to the major victim-offender mediation projects in England over two years. Despite many favourable outcomes, the main problematic for these projects was that of reconciliation to the “hostile environment” of traditional criminal justice. Existing agencies tended to “take over” the new schemes and try to adapt them to their own ends, whereas the greatest potential in such innovations lay in the new aims underlying them, related to reconciliation and a conflict resolution approach to crime policy. The greatest obstacles lay in the offender-orientation and punishment focus of the existing system.
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Marshall, T.F. (1992). Restorative Justice on Trial in Britain. In: Messmer, H., Otto, HU. (eds) Restorative Justice on Trial. Nato Science Series D: (closed), vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8064-9_2
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