Restorative Justice

Flashcards about restorative justice key terms and definitions.

Restorative Justice

Practices addressing harms from people's behavior over the last 40 years.

Victim-Offender Mediation

A practice with principle goals to support victim healing, encourage offender responsibility, empower participants, redress the balance, and agree on an outcome.

Family Group Conferencing

A culturally sensitive way of responding to offending, focusing on empowerment of families of young people, and deciding how best to make amends.

Police-Led Community Conferencing

A practice involving the wider community, where victims have a role in reintegrative shaming.

Community Reparation Boards

A group of trained citizens who conduct face-to-face meetings with offenders to participate in the process.

Youth Offender Panels

Local people working with young offenders, their parents, and victims, emphasizing responsibility, restoration, and reintegration.

Core Focus of Restorative Justice

Repairing the harm caused by behaviors defined as crime.

Centrality of People in Restorative Justice

Victims, offenders, and the community.

Restorative Justice Accountability

The personal accountability of the offender to those harmed.

Restorative Justice Goal

Offenders should repair harm.

Kitchen experiment 1974

Case in Canada - offenders develop a restitution plan in negotiation with the victim.

Conflict as Property

Conflict is a chance to clarify norms with citizen input.

Howard Zehr's Thesis

RJ as a new justice paradigm: achievement which creates legitimate problems and research methods within that discipline.

Reintegrative Shaming

Communicates shame to a wrongdoer and encourages desistance.

Restorative Justice Stages

Can take place at any stage of the Criminal Justice System.