1. Patrick POIRRET Stéphane LORENZI Francis BAHANS
Procureur de la République Adjoint
près le Tribunal de Grande Instance de Bobigny
Stéphane LORENZI
Magistrate à l’Administration Centrale du Ministère de la justice
Service de l’Accès au Droit et à la Justice et à l’Aide aux Victimes (SADJAV)
Véronique DANDONNEAU
Chargée de Projets – Juriste – Citoyens et Justice
Francis BAHANS
Directeur Général Adjoint - Citoyens et Justice
European Commission – Directorate-General Justice, Freedom and Security
Fédération des associations socio-judiciaires

2. Fédération des associations socio-judiciaires
L’essor de la justice restaurative en France
Restorative justice development in France
 II. Le principe d’opportunité des poursuites
  The principle of public prosecution opportunity
III. Apport du secteur associatif / Justice Restaurative
  The NGO contribution to Restorative Justice
IV. Le contexte politique et judiciaire actuel
The current political and judiciary context
V. Le développement de la prise en compte des victimes
  The victims support development
Les perspectives
The prospects
European Commission – Directorate-General Justice, Freedom and Security
Fédération des associations socio-judiciaires

3. I. Restorative justice development in France
1. La médiation pénale
Victim Offender Mediation (VOM)
2. La réparation pénale des mineurs
Juvenile penal mediation
3. La recherche
Research
European project "VOM at the post sentence stage“, Paris, 26th and 27th november 2009  

4. I. Restorative justice development in France
Victim Offender Mediation
Before the 1993 Law :
The conceptual references
Valence
VOM combined with « Contrôle Judicaire socio- éducatif” (CJSE)
European project "VOM at the post sentence stage“, Paris, 26th and 27th november 2009  

5. I. VICTIM OFFENDER MEDIATION DEVELOPMENT IN FRANCE
Victim Offender Mediation (continued)
Evolution of legal texts :
1988 Circular
2nd October 1992 note
4th November 1992 Decree
4th January 1993 Law : legislative consecration
23rd June1999 : The VOM amongst alternatives to public prosecution
15th September 1999 European recommandation
9th March 2004 Law: the Prosecutor’s mediator
European project "VOM at the post sentence stage“, Paris, 26th and 27th november 2009  

6. I. L VICTIM OFFENDER MEDIATION DEVELOPMENT IN FRANCE
2. Juvenile penal reparation
Experimental phase before 1993
The 1993 Law
Penal Reparation and Restorative justice
European project "VOM at the post sentence stage“, Paris, 26th and 27th november 2009  

7. I. VICTIM OFFENDER MEDIATION DEVELOPMENT IN FRANCE
3. The Research
Innovation in practice
Practice supported by academic research
Jacques FAGET, Philip MILBURN, Robert CARIO, Maryse VAILLANT etc…
European project "VOM at the post sentence stage“, Paris, 26th and 27th november 2009  

8. II. The principle of public prosecution opportunity
The principle of public prosecution opportunity compared to the legal prosecution principle
The three possible ways of penal orientation
Choosing VOM
European project "VOM at the post sentence stage“, Paris, 26th and 27th november 2009  

9. III. The NGO CONTRIBUTION TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
The NGOs and the French social sector
2. The VOM supported by the NGOs
3. The NGOs and Juvenile penal reparation
European project "VOM at the post sentence stage“, Paris, 26th and 27th november 2009  

10. III. The NGO contribution to Restorative Justice
1. The NGOs and the French social sector
French and European NGOs
Religious, non-religious, militant, civic basis
NGOs and democracy
NGOs and Justice
Civil Justice
Penal Justice for minors
Citoyens & Justice as from 1982
European project "VOM at the post sentence stage“, Paris, 26th and 27th november 2009  

11. III. The NGO CONTRIBUTION TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
2. The VOM supported by the NGOs
Ethical identification and its application
NGO empowered by the court
Mediator nominated by a NGO
Necessity for the mediators professional qualifications
Fairness and independence of Mediators
VOM meetings
Restoring link or compensating 
3. The NGOs and the juvenile penal reparation
European project "VOM at the post sentence stage“, Paris, 26th and 27th november 2009  

12. IV. THE CURRENT POLITICAL AND JUDICIARY CONTEXT
The law Society request
The debate on public security
Zero tolerance
2. A changing judiciary system
The increasing power of the prosecutor
Better quality in penal solutions
The increase in the number of penal solutions
The ratio VOM and Juvenile penal reparation
Discrepancy in penal policies
European project "VOM at the post sentence stage“, Paris, 26th and 27th november 2009  

13. Juvenile penal reparation
Penal tendancies in 2008
Pursuable cases
100 %
Shelved
Penal solutions
Alternatives to public prosecution
(36,26 %)
Prosecutions
Restorative justice (3,56 %)
Others alternatives to public prosecution
32, 70 %
Juvenile penal reparation
9 000
0,60 %
VOM
44 500
2,96 %
NGO
28 500
1,90 %
Independant persons
(Non NGO)
16 000
1,06 %
La médiation pénale dans la phase post sententielle, Paris, 26 et 27 novembre 2009

14. V. The victims support development
Emergence of victims
Aid for victims and NGOs for victims
The current stakes
European project "VOM at the post sentence stage“, Paris, 26th and 27th november 2009  

15. Restorative justice suspended ?
VI. THE PROSPECTS
Restorative justice suspended ?
Lack of background for transaction
Domination by the principle of punishment
Development of negociated justice … with the prosecution
VOM: Heterogeneous system
increase in temporary assistants
A guide or a referential to be imposed
Training to be compulsory
Building an evaluation procedure
The case of wife-beating
European project "VOM at the post sentence stage“, Paris, 26th and 27th november 2009  

16. Fédération des associations socio-judiciaires
VI. THE PROSPECTS
2. Open new ways 
The VOM in post sentencial stage
You are the future
European Commission – Directorate-General Justice, Freedom and Security
Fédération des associations socio-judiciaires
European project "VOM at the post sentence stage“, Paris, 26th and 27th november 2009