retributive justice vs restorative justice

Name the 10 contrasting principles

1. Focus

2. Stigma

3. Highlighted issues

4. Tools

5. Accountability

6. Reparation

7. People involved

8. Community

9. Process

10. Procedure

Focus

REST: problem solving, obligations, healing and the future

RETR: establishing blame and guilty

Stigma

REST: crime is removable

RETR: crime is permanent

Highlighted issues

REST: broken relationships

RETR: broken laws

Tools

REST: healing + support

RETR: punishment + control

Accountability

REST: defines accountability as the offender understanding their wrongdoings, the impact of their actions and their responsibilities in making it right and reforming their behaviour

RETR: defines accountability as the offender taking their decided punishment

Reparation

REST: heavy emphasis on possibilities for reparation and forgiveness

RETR: no emphasis on reparation and forgiveness

People involved

REST: community, participants

RETR: “experts”, uninvolved legal personnel

Community

REST: community facilitates

RETR: community absent

Process

REST: consensus, community vs problem, victims rights and needs and offenders obligation and rehabilitation paramount

RETR: adversarial, state vs offender, offender passive and lack of victim involvement

Procedure

REST: procedure is flexible

RETR: procedure is based on strict rules