Question

_________________ includes family members, close friends, and other support groups of the victims and offenders in the restorative conferences.

Answer 1

Family group conferences

Circle sentencing

Victim-offender mediation

Step-by-step explanation:

A family group conference (FGC) is a well planned decision-making meeting, which is made up of children, parents, extended family, important friends and also, family's neighbors or friend who may not actually be blood-related.

Circle sentencing is a type of sentencing, in which native offender, who involves the community's offender in the sentencing process.

Victim offender mediation is a process, in which interested victims are given the opportunity to meet their offenders, in a secure and well structured avenue, and hence, engage in a mediated discussion of the crime.

Answer 2

Answer: Structured meetings or Conferences

Explanation:The structured meeting or conferences are ways by which an offender meets with his victim accompanied by friends, family members to deal with the outcome of there wrongdoing. It is called a restorative conference. Here the offender and victims are arranged to meet with family members and friends but without any legal or mediation officer to correct their wrongdoing.