Road(s) To Recovery: Restorative Justice And Discourses of Reconciliation in Domestic Violence Cases

Restorative justice is a criminal justice system that emphasizes offender rehabilitation and a repairing of the community as a whole, largely through victim-offender reconciliation. Restorative justice policies claim to both emphasize the victims role in the justice process and to hold offenders acc...

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Main Author: Mastrorillo, Alessia (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: 2017
In:Year: 2017
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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