Alternative Approaches to Justice: Are Victims Better Off?
September 27, 2007

Alternative Approaches to Justice: Are Victims Better Off? This is the challenging question that will be explored by international and local speakers at the Australasian Society of Victimology's (ASV) conference on September 27, 2007.  

Professor Marc Groenhuijsen, Director of the Intervict (an International Victimological Research Centre at Tilburg University, Netherlands) will give a keynote address on international standards governing the process of mediation and the importance of empirical research on the effects of restorative justice. 

Dr Ian Edwards of East Anglia University, England, will also give a keynote address on the British programmes to re-intergrate the victim in the criminal justice process, including restorative justice.  

A panel discussion on restorative justice will follow these speakers. Afterwards, Professor Grant Devilly of the Brain Research Centre, Swinburne University, will speak on therapy to help victims heal as a lead-in to a panel discussion on whether victims are better off in an adversarial system or an inquisitorial system.

Panellists include Michael Dawson (Victim Support Services), Leigh Garrett (OARS), Vanessa Swan (Yarrow Place), Dr Zoe Morrison (Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault), Katherine McLachlan (Flinders University) and Grant Thomas (Youth Court of SA).

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