The aims of the research project are to first consider the existing and emerging practices of conferencing. The study focuses on conferencing practices which are related to crime and will assess their processes as well as outcomes. Furthermore the study compares conferences with the more widespread VOM. In addition the report offers a detailed and extensive bibliography which lists among other academic publications, old and new reports and evaluation and web‐addresses which may be of use to anybody interested in the topic. The study also explicitly focuses on the challenges when implementing conferencing in a continental European legal and socio‐cultural context and proposes some new avenues for its further development in a European context.
The aims of the research project are to first consider the existing and emerging practices of conferencing. The study focuses on conferencing practices which are related to crime and will assess their processes as well as outcomes. Furthermore the study compares conferences with the more widespread VOM. In addition the report offers a detailed and extensive bibliography which lists among other academic publications, old and new reports and evaluation and web‐addresses which may be of use to anybody interested in the topic. The study also explicitly focuses on the challenges when implementing conferencing in a continental European legal and socio‐cultural context and proposes some new avenues for its further development in a European context.