What is it about?
Victim-offender mediation is a facilitated dialogue between victims of crime and offenders. Victims of crime may participate in victim-offender mediation because they want answers or the full "truth" about what happened. This research demonstrates that victims who feel they know the full truth may be more receptive to apologies issued by offenders in victim-offender mediation.
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Why is it important?
Our research provides evidence that the subjective feeling of knowing the truth matters to victims. Restorative justice interventions such as victim-offender mediation should endeavour to obtain the full truth about experienced crime to ensure that victims’ need for truth is satisfied.
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What I like most about this article is that it examines an abstract construct (truth) in an applied context.
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This page is a summary of: The role of truth in victim–offender mediation: Victims of crime who feel they know the “whole” truth are more receptive to apologies., Law and Human Behavior, June 2024, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000564.
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