The Victim-offender Mediation Unit provides a mediation service between victims and offenders and forms part of the Department's community corrections program.
All Victim-offender Mediation Unit mediation is impartial and entered into voluntarily by both parties.
The mediation is free, impartial and private and offers:
- reparative mediation, where a victim of a non-violent offence meets with the offender to discuss forms of compensation; and
- protective conditions, where victims and offenders of more serious offences who are expected to be in contact, reach an agreement about the level and nature of any contact (if any) between them.
In any event, offenders on parole or community-based orders are not permitted contact with their victim(s) under the Department of Corrective Services' victim/offender contact policy, unless that contact is approved by the Victim-offender Mediation Unit. The policy applies even if the offender is related to the victim.
If a victim agrees to have contact with the offender, all contact will be monitored by the Victim-offender Mediation Unit for as long as necessary.
Contact details
Victim-offender Mediation Unit
Level 13, International House
26 St Georges Terrace
(Corner of Irwin Street)
PERTH WA 6000
Telephone: (08) 9425 3200
Facsimile: (08) 9425 3222
