Participation in Victim-Offender Mediation and the Prevalence and Severity of Subsequent Delinquent Behavior:

Tennessee. College of Social Work, University of Tennessee. Center for Restorative Justice & Mediation, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota. See, e.g., Burt Galaway, Crime Victim and Offender Mediation As a Social Work Strategy, 62 SOC. SERV. REV. 668, 669 (1988) (focusing on victim-offender reconciliation projects for juvenile property offenders as an emerging type of successful restorative justice). MARK S. UMBREIT, THE HANDBOOK OF VICTIM OFFENDER MEDIATION 1–18 (2000); HOWARD ZEHR, CHANGING LENSES: A NEW FOCUS FOR CRIME AND JUSTICE 184–85 (1990). UMBREIT, supra note 2, at 5–6. See, e.g., Caren L. Flaten, Victim Offender Mediation: Application with Serious Offenses Committed by Juveniles, in RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 387, 401 (Burt Galaway & Joe Hudson eds., 1996) (providing study of serious offense mediations). Mark S. Umbreit & Jean Greenwood, National Survey of Victim Offender Mediation Programs in the United States, 16 MEDIATION Q. 235, 235 (1999).