According to the existent regulations in this field of activity it is obvious that the restorative justice is done in two ways as followed: mediation and service for the community, both of them are addressed to minor and young offenders. Applying this two forms, there appeared problems regarding to the guarantees: legal guarantees which concern the offenders (the right for defence, the proportion between the seriousness of the committed offend and the service for the community), the problem of responsibility for the committed offences, the competent authority to take actions, the procedural phase in which this actions can be arranged and the duration of them.The methods of legal regulation of the mediation and the service for the community are different in the legislation of each European country, but indifferent of the form in which they do their activity (mediators, specialised organizations, non-profit organisations), they will never activate completely separate from the criminal justice system. The judicial authorities must have enough methods to control the restorative activity, monitoring the activities of the services that do mediation activity. It is also necessary from the perspective of respecting the individual rights of the parts involved in the restorative process.Regarding to the justice regulation methods of the mediation and the community service there are different forms in the legislation of some European countries as following: common regulation in the legislation from France, Germany, Italy and Spain separately regulationRegulation in the legislation of the Scandinavian countries like Netherland, Belgium, Switzerland and Great Britain.
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