Country information
Sweden
Texts providing an overview of the state of affairs
Restorative justice in Sweden by Lars Alexandersson and Eleonore Lind (up to date until January 2008)
'Sweden', in Mapping Restorative Justice. Developments in 25 European countries, edited by David Miers and Jolien Willemsens for the European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice (2004).
'Victim-offender mediation in Sweden: a nation-wide pilot scheme', in Newsletter of the European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice, Vol. 1, Issue 1.
'Victim and Offender Viewed from the Perspective of Mediation' by Lise-Lotte Rytterbro, in Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime PreventionI, Vol. 4, pp. 101-122, 2003. You can find an abstract here.
Legislation and policy documents
(Umbrella) organisations active in the field of restorative justice
- National Council for Crime Prevention
- Swedish Forum for Mediation and Conflict Management
- Riksförening medling vid brott