Katrine Barnekow Rasmussen
Assistant Professor
JUR Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law
Karen Blixens Plads 16
2300 København S
My survey among board members displays a notable uncertainty regarding appropriate instant reactions as well as rather varied connotations of how restorative character should be understood in this context. Furthermore, so far instant reactions are very rarely used by the boards.
Board members and management suggest that the restorative aspect of the board can be understood as a wider restoration of the young offenders' lives by engaging them in a meaningful plan to avoid reoffending. However, based on my observations of board meetings I conclude that overall, with the current framework and approaches the boards are not succesful in engaging the young offenders in a restorative way.
The Danish political level displays dissatisfaction with the limited usage of instant reactions to date. Initiatives are on the way to address this point, including a catalogue of ideas for possible instant reactions. I question whether this approach will actually take the practice of the boards in a more restorative direction. Instead, I suggest looking towards Norway for inspiration on this matter.
My investigation focuses primarily on the Danish VOM programme and secondarily the Norwegian Mediation Service. The two services are both called Konfliktråd in the respective national languages and the establishing of the Danish programme was heavily inspired by the Norwegian service making the Norwegian Service an obvious case for comparison. In the Norwegian data set, my main focus is on the processes of referring to the two types of restorative youth sanctions implemented nationwide since July 2014 and to be executed by the Mediation Service.
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