Website of the Month: Victim Offender Mediation Association.
VOMA is an international organization formed in the early 1980’s from an informal network of practitioners, researchers, and theorists in victim-offender mediation and restorative justice. VOMA’s members provide leadership and professional support in best practices, ethical guidelines, and peer support for victim-offender mediation practitioners within various criminal justice systems.
The site offers:
Learn About VOM provides a brief definition, history, and explanation of VOM practice.
Restorative Justice Bibliography is a listing list of books about restorative justice and mediation. Some of the entries provide links to purchase online.
Publications is a listing of the following links:
- VOMA Connections - a quarterly newsletter, one of the field's premier resources. Members receive a print copy.
- Articles - Articles (by scholars and practitioners) too long for publication in Connections.
- VOMA Documents - Official documents of the VOMA Board. Ethics Guidelines, Strategic Plan, Conference archives .
- Links lists websites according location (within or without North America), VOMA member agencies, government organizations, and purpose.
By Susan Sheldon
April 2002
