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
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
stoning to today’s methods of restorative justice. To determine whether or not a law or legal policy is supported, the application of it by the judiciary, the writings of academics and the general reaction of people in the non-legal community must be closely examined. These three elements that provides support to laws and legal policies will answer the research question of this paper. 1.1. Research question Is restorative
laws need to be formulated or modified or changed due to various reasons. It could be because the Criminal Justice System want to change the process of courtroom or the legal authorities want to identify the culprits through an easy process, or because the offenders need to be provided with the solutions of Restorative Justice, if they are found to be mentally retarded. Restorative justice can be looked upon as a process, wherein the respective authorized authorities are trying to establish a balance
Throughout England and Wales there are estimated to be 23,000 lay magistrates. With that in mind it is not irrational to question their effectiveness or analyse their role. In this essay I will evaluate the good and the bad of the lay magistracy and analyse any alternatives that may be deemed appropriate. The most obvious benefit of the lay magistracy is the number of cases they see compared with District Judges (magistrates court), hereon to be referred to as stipendiary’s. This of course fuels
gain competence through training, experience, consultation, or supervision. Psychologists take reasonable steps to ensure the competence of their work and to protect the populations that they are working with, such as clients, students, supervisees, research participants, and others. Consistent with this standard, clinical supervisor not only need to be competence in the clinical areas to be supervised, they need to have formal training in the practice of clinical supervision (Barnett, 2011). In addition