I have started working on a baseline assessment framework. It features basic questions that a potential facilitator might ask both victim and offender during their first visits. The idea is to ascertain that a restorative intervention is appropriate, safe and properly risk-assessed.
In restorative interventions we deal with vulnerable people, so while we can never 100% predict how an intervention will pan out, we can at least make sure that it is safe to bring victim and offender together and reduce any risk of re-victimisation of the victim through minimisation and manipulation by the offender. We can also spot whether there have been previous encounters between both parties or if any of the parties have been involved in similar (or different) offences. I will publish the questionnaire once I have tried it out a couple of times.
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