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Restorative justice is an approach to justice that aims to repair the harm done to victims. [1] [2] In doing so, practitioners work to ensure that offenders 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.
Trevor Fronius, et al. describe restorative justice as “a broad term that encompasses a growing social movement to institutionalize peaceful and non-punitive approaches for addressing harm, responding to violations of legal and human rights, and problem solving.” [15] This definition speaks to restorative justice as more of a collection of ...
Use of restorative practices is now spreading worldwide, in education, [46] criminal justice, [47] social work, [48] counseling, [49] youth services, [50] workplace, [51] college residence hall [52] and faith community [53] applications. Notably, restorative practices can and do serve as reactionary tools in these settings but have also been ...
The restorative practices teacher at Audubon, Andrew Lazzari, said the class has become especially important for helping students talk with one another and build relationships after the social ...
Restorative justice also 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. Traditional styles of discipline do not always work well for students across every cultural community.
Restorative practices, in contrast, often disrupt class time for more students, as both the offender(s) and victim(s) in a conflict are brought together to discuss what happened and "repair harm ...
The Wind of Change: Comparative Lessons for Restorative Justice in South Africa and the United Kingdom, London: RJ4All Publications, ISBN 978-1-911634-04-1. Gavrielides, T. (2013). Reconstructing restorative justice philosophy.
A victim impact panel, which usually follows the victim impact statement, is a form of community-based or restorative justice in which the crime victims (or relatives and friends of deceased crime victims) meet with the defendant after conviction to tell the convict about how the criminal activity affected them, in the hope of rehabilitation or ...