Droits Des Victimes Participer Sans Entraver

This edited volume contains 22 papers organized into three sections under the following headings: part I is entitled On Promoting Victim Policies; Part II On Reforming Criminal Justice; and Part III On Restorative Justice. All three areas are ones to which Tony Peters, former Professor of Criminology in Leuven, has made a significant contribution and for which he is known as an international authority. During his long and productive academic career Tony Peters led many struggles for criminal justice reform. He was a leading figure in the movement to recognize crime victims' plight and to reaffirm their rights. In Belgium, he spearheaded the early initiatives in restorative justice and became one of its outspoken proponents nationally and internationally. There is no doubt that these three major topics and the various developments and reforms that are addressed in the papers will dominate the thinking about, and the practice of, criminal justice in the years to come. Thus, in addition to paying homage to a congenial friend and an illustrious colleague, it is hoped that this book will appeal and prove useful to all those who have an interest in victims issues, in criminal justice reform, and last but not least, in the promising paradigm of restorative justice.

A report published in May 1996 presented recommendations for management of correctional populations to reduce crowding while maintaining and improving public safety. This document provides a status report on progress and developments since then. It presents crime statistics and describes two significant sentencing judgements that support less restrictive sentencing. It then provides reports on the following issues: the effect of prison on criminal behaviour; conditional sentencing; custodial remand; programs and services for Aboriginal offenders; restorative justice.

The Law Commission of Canada sees restorative justice in the criminal law and alternative dispute resolution in the civil law as closely connected : They both attempt to trace a new understanding of how we might imagine the processes by which conflicts are named and framed, the assumptions about who is properly a party to a dispute, and what the optimal remedial outcomes might be. This Discussion Paper begins with the idea of restorative justice, as it has been developed in the criminal justice system, and seeks to extend it, through the notion of transformative justice, to other fields of law.

A Law Commission consultation paper 'A new homicide act for England and Wales?' was published as LCCP 177 (ISBN 0117302643) in April 2006.