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work_cv3xs4vdazeithyxrvd4tifuoa	Jan van Dijk	Victim-centred restorative justice	2013	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1884	101	58	In the 1985 Council of Europe (CoE) Recommendation on the Position of the Victim in the Framework of Criminal Law and Procedure, one of the earliest European legal instruments on victims' rights, mechanisms that are currently known as restorative justice (RJ) took note of the Basic Principles on the Use of Restorative Justice Programmes in Criminal Matters. In this recommendation it is stated that mediation in penal matters should be generally Considering this historical background, it comes as no surprise that in the longawaited new EU Victims Directive (2012/29/EU) RJ is positioned as an option rather time sceptical about the victim's right to speak up in court as advocated by American victimologists, and even more so of mediation, advocated in The Netherlands as a method support organisations and victim-centred reforms of the criminal justice system should victims the right to access an RJ programme in such cases as an option.	./cache/work_cv3xs4vdazeithyxrvd4tifuoa.pdf	./txt/work_cv3xs4vdazeithyxrvd4tifuoa.txt