Restorative justice - A new paradigm in criminal law?

European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 125-139

  Meier, Bernd Dieter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

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EID: 0344632760     PISSN: 09289569     EISSN: 15718174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157181798X00148     Document Type: Article

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7. Cf. K. Sessar, Wiedergutmachen oder Strafen. Einstellungen in der Bevölkerung und der Justiz (Pfaffenweiler 1992) pp. 251-252.
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10. See B.-D. Meier, 'Täter-Opfer-Ausgleich und Wiedergutt machung im allgemeinen Strafrecht' 36 Juristische Schulung (1996) pp. 437-438 for further discussion.
11. Cf. S. Waltherr 'Reparation and Criminal Justice: Can They be Integrated?', 4 European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (1996) pp. 171-72.
12. Which means that the latent danger of a net-widening effect (cf. K.I. Minor and J.T. Morrison, 'A Theoretical Study and Critique of Restorative Justice' in B. Galaway and J. Hudson, eds., op.cit. p. 127) can at least theoretically be banned.
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21. L. Walgrave, op.cit. pp. 69-72; K.I. Minor and J.T. Morrison, op.cit. pp. 119-120.
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23. See G. Bazemore, op.cit. pp. 52-54 for a more detailed discussion.
24. J. Braithwaite, Crime, shame and reintegration (Cambridge 1989) pp. 69-83.
25. The utmost importancc of this prerequisite of restorative justice has often been pointed out; see e.g. M. Wrightt 'Can Mediation be an Alternative to Criminal Justice?', in B. Galaway and J. Hudson, eds., op.cit. p. 235.
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30. See S. Waltherr Täter-Opfer-Ausgleich: Vermittler im Zeugenstand?' 30 Zeitschrift für Rechts-polilik (1997) pp. 395-397, for further discussion.
31. J. Baumann et al., Altemutiv-Entwurf Wiedergutmachung (Münchee 1992)) for a short summarr of the contents, cf. S. Waltherr op.cit., pp. 167-169.
32. J. Baumann et al, op.cit., p. 24.
33. Cf. T. Weigend, Deliktsopfer und Strafverfahren (Berlln 1989) pp. 195-214.