5.7 Community Mediation

The concept: the community's own justice processes applied to the juvenile conflict — the victim, the child and the community in structured dialogue (the restorative frame — Unit 1's third model). The faces: The victim-offender mediation (the apology, the restitution, the relationship's repair); The family-group-conference forms (the family's collective responsibility-and-plan); Nepal's traditions: the kachahari-and-community practices' revival potential (the badghar-and-mukhiya's justice — applied with the child-rights safeguards: no shaming, no exclusion, the consent's freedom); The court-annexed mediation's juvenile extension (the Mediation Act 2068's complement — the referred settlement); The caution: the community's capacity must be built, not assumed — the net-widening and the informal-system's-bias risks honestly noted. Exam Focus Long questions: (i) The juvenile-justice process from investigation to disposition (the four stations — investigation → prosecution → adjudication → correction — each with its child-friendly discipline); (ii) The juvenile court/bench: composition, jurisdiction, procedure, disposition menu; (iii) Diversion — the concept and the THREE stages' techniques with the criteria; (iv) The community mediation-and-restorative faces. Short questions: the social study report; the multidisciplinary bench; the correction- home regime; the mixed-case rule. Trick areas: (i) The bench's composition is the exam's most-asked detail: judge + social- service provider + child psychologist/specialist; (ii) Diversion exists at ALL THREE stages — not only pre-trial; (iii) The correction home is CUSTODY TOO — the habeas cases reached…