Restorative justice is an approach to justice where one of the responses to a crime is to organize a meeting between the victim and the offender, sometimes with representatives of the wider community.
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17 Facts About Restorative justice
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Restorative justice program aims to get offenders to take responsibility for their actions, to understand the harm they have caused, to give them an opportunity to redeem themselves, and to discourage them from causing further harm.
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Restorative justice is founded on an alternative theory to the traditional methods of justice, which often focus on retribution.
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Restorative justice inspired and is part of the wider study of restorative practices.
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Restorative justice seeks to build partnerships to reestablish mutual responsibility for constructive responses to wrongdoing within our communities.
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Restorative justice approaches seek a balanced approach to the needs of the victim, wrongdoer and community through processes that preserve the safety and dignity of all.
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Restorative justice is different from the adversarial legal process or that of civil litigation.
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Restorative justice continues to be a feature of indigenous justice systems today.
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The restorative justice movement has attracted many segments of society, including "police officers, judges, schoolteachers, politicians, juvenile justice agencies, victim support groups, aboriginal elders, and mums and dads".
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Restorative justice is not just a theory, but a practice-oriented attitude in dealing with criminal relevant conflicts.
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South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission shows how restorative justice can be used to address system-wide offenses that affect broad swaths of a group or a society.
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Besides serving as an alternative to civil or criminal trial, restorative justice is thought to be applicable to offenders who are currently incarcerated.
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Potential for restorative justice to reduce recidivism is one of the strongest and most promising arguments for its use in prisons.
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Restorative justice focuses on justice as needs and obligations, expands justice as conversations between the offender, victim and school, and recognizes accountability as understanding the impact of actions and repairing the harm.
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Restorative justice requires a form of meeting between the offender and the victim.
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Restorative justice conferences involves a wider circle of participants than VOD and FGC.
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Use of forgiveness as a tool has in the restorative justice programs, run for victims and perpetrators of Rwandan genocide, the violence in Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and Northern Ireland conflict, has been documented in film, Beyond Right and Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness.
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