2The first Victim - Offender Recoaciliation Programmeme (referred to here as VOM) began as an experiment in Kitchener, Ontario in the early 1970's , when a youth probation officer convinced a judge that two youths convicted of vandalism should meet the victims of their crimes. After the meetings, the judge ordered the two youths to pay restitution to those victims as a condition of probation, http://www.restorativejustice. org/intro/tutorial/processes/vom.
4John R. Gehm:Victim-Offender Mediation Programs: An Exploration of Practive and Theoretical Frameworks,http://wcr.sonoma.edu/v1m1/gehm.html or Western Criminology Review 1(1998).
