The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing by Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz

The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing by Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz

Victim offender dialogues have been developed as a way to hold offenders accountable to the person they have harmed and to give victims a voice about how to put things right. It is a way of acknowledging the importance of the relationship, of the connection which crime creates. Granted, the relationship is a negative one, but there is a relationship.                      Amstutz has been a practitioner and a teacher in the field for more than 20 years.

Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz is the Director of the MCC's Office on Crime and Justice. She serves as a consultant and trainer for agencies and communities interested in implementing restorative justice programs that incorporate a Victim Offender Mediation/Conferencing component. Lorraine has worked on a variety of programs around the United States, providing technical help and consultation. She began working in the victim offender field in 1984, in Elkhart, Indiana, when the first Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) in the United States was established. Lorraine is the co-author of the Victim Offender Conferencing in Pennsylvania's Juvenile Justice System curriculum, as well as a manual on the implementation of VOM/C in Pennsylvania and other papers.

She has been on the Board of the International Victim Offender Mediation Association (VOMA) and is currently on the Board of the Lancaster County Victim Offender Program. Lorraine has a bachelor's degree in science. She earned her bachelor's degree in social work from Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia (where she received the Outstanding Service Award in 2002) and her master's degree in social work from Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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ISBN 13	9781561485864
ISBN 10	1561485861
Title	The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing
Author	Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz
Series	Justice And Peacebuilding
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Good Books
Year published	2009-12-17
Number of pages	96
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