by measures such as warnings, cautions and referrals to community programs rather than face the criminal justice system (Public Safety Canada, n.d.). The restorative justice approach for dealing with non-violent young offenders is a restorative process which focuses on reintegration into the community rather than conviction and incarceration. Rather than taking a retributive approach to justice, the punishment and isolation of youth offenders which provides an environment of other criminal offenders
Essay 2: Restorative and Peacemaking Perspectives Martin Wright (1991) explores the Restorative Justice perspective through a variety of programs/organizations: Victim/Offender Reconciliation Project (VORP), National Association or the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO), and the National Association of Victims Support Schemes (NAVSS). The purpose of these programs, and programs alike, is for the criminal justice system to make things as right as possible for all involved by incorporating
Chapter 2 Historical background of Restorative Justice 1 Introduction In 1974 the first case of restorative justice was documented in Elmira Canada. It’s strived to balance power between the affected parties and empowering those who in the traditional system had limited or no voice at all. In Restorative Justice, the participants speak for themselves, in a setting that encourages the sharing of feelings and emotions and personal contact Victim Offender Reconciliation Programs were being created
Chapter 3 The theories of punishment 1 Introduction Many restorative justice practitioners seem to have a sense that the whole paradigm is so contrary to the way most legal practitioners especially prosecutors and magistrates think, that there is little common ground to be found. Legal practitioners often perceive restorative justice as not taking seriously the fundamental concerns of a criminal justice system. While restorative justice certainly is a very different lens to the one that is usually
Restorative Justice Restorative justice is a sentencing philosophy that has the offender assuming responsibility to repair harm done to the victim or the community (Alarid, 2013). There are policies for reintegration, and restorative justice for low offender women criminals that may prove effective if changes are implemented. “Women are the fastest-growing population in the criminal justice system, and jails reach more people than any other component of the correctional system” (Richie, ). The
2015 Professor Wells Restorative Vs. Retributive Justice Retributive justice is a legal basic that dictates that punishment for a crime is acceptable as long as it is a equivalent response to the crime committed. In this type of justice system, a crime is typically seen as being done against the state or government. As such, it is left to the government to pursue justice in terms of punishment against the individual who has committed the crime. In most respects, retributive justice seeks to punish a
Restorative justice is a unique process of justice, very different than typical criminal justice system that is used often throughout the United States, and the rest of the world. The criminal Justice system is designed with the thinking that the person who did something wrong needs to get punished and they need to get what they deserved in order to make them stop doing whatever crime they did. Restorative Justice is very different, though it is not very common it has been used during some well known
meet in a safe and organized setting where they reach an agreement on an appropriate method of repairing the harm. One of the primary goals of our criminal justice system is to rehabilitate the offender. Restorative Justice sets up a space where societal factors that influence people’s behavior can be examined. From the view of Restorative Justice, rehabilitation cannot be reached until the offender acknowledges the harm that has been caused to victims and communities. Then the offender has to make
The Restorative Justice process represents a transformation from justice as a tool for “social control” (18), to thinking of it as a tool for “social engagement” (Morrison, 2010). Instead of looking at what sort of punishment the offender deserves, as it is done in the traditional process, the restorative process looks at it in a sense of how they are able to repair the harm that has been done to all parties involved. The traditional justice system often leaves victims feeling powerless and re-victimised
current United States justice system is broken and has been like that for several years already. We need new ways to deal with the problem of recidivism of former offenders and the overpopulation of our prisons. Our current approach of deterrence and retribution toward the issue of criminality has obviously not worked; therefore, it is time to open up to a new system that can finally make a real impact on criminals, victims, and our justice system. Although restorative justice has been gaining a great