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

本研究以受害者影响小组（被害人影响小组）作为恢复性实践的一种，其目的是：1)对日本少年犯管教所和监狱实施的“以犯罪受害者为视角的教育项目”进行分析，通过对所有监狱和参加该项目的犯罪受害者的问卷调查，并发表他们的想法和意见；2)通过问卷调查，探讨受害者对加害者的看法，以及他们对未来加害者关系的期望。矛盾的是，目前的项目可能被认为有潜力成长为真正的VIP，因为这个项目刚刚启动，还没有形成一个明确的战略。对于犯罪受害者来说，将与罪犯的破坏性关系转变为完整的关系并不是一件容易的事情，但是这种转变的早期迹象似乎在他们的反应模式中显示出来。

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.