An empirical research on constructing a new relationship between crime victims and offenders in the community.

本研究通过参考恢复性实践中的受害者影响小组(VIP)，通过对日本所有监狱和参加该计划并畅所欲言的犯罪受害者的问卷调查，对日本少年教养所和监狱实施的一项以犯罪受害者的观点为视角的教育计划进行分析，2)通过问卷调查，探讨受害者对罪犯的看法以及他们希望未来的受害者-罪犯关系是什么样的。矛盾的是，目前的计划可能被认为具有成长为真正的VIP的潜力，因为该计划才刚刚启动，尚未形成明确的战略。对于犯罪受害者来说，将与犯罪者的破坏性关系转变为整体关系并不是一件容易的事情，但他们的反应模式似乎表明了这种转变的早期迹象。

By referring to the victim impact panel (VIP) which is one of varieties of restorative practices, this study aims 1) to make an analysis of "an educational program adopting the point of view of the crime victim" which is implemented at juvenile reformatories and prisons in Japan by using the responses to the questionnaires obtained from all the prisons and from the crime victims who attend this program and speak their mind and opinions, 2) to explore by using the questionnaires the victims' perceptions of their offender and an image of what they want victim-offender relations to be like in the future. Paradoxically speaking, the current program may be considered to have the potential to grow into the rather genuine VIP because the program has been just initiated and not settled yet into a definite strategy. It is not an easy task for crime victims to transform the destructive relations with their offender into the whole relations, but an early sign of the transformation seems to be indicated in a pattern of their responses.