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Summary
Places restorative justice in relation to appropriate dispute resolution: it does not seek to resolve a conflict or reach a contractual agreement, but to ease the resentments of those who take part. It explains that it develops outside the proceedings, does not modify the sentence of the convicted person and can be applied even to time-barred offences, which is why it complements criminal proceedings. It argues that, to become public policy, it needs adequate funding and wider dissemination of its culture, because it now depends largely on victims' associations. Useful for those who study the place of restorative justice in current French law.