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Crime and Justice in the US, Review of the Criminal Justice System

Weeks 6 and 7

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Web Links for Review:

Restorative Justice Web Resources

Required Readings:

Restorative Justice: The Concept, Howard Zehr, Corrections Today, Dec., 1997.

Restorative Justice and Earned Redemption: Communities, Victims, and Offender Reintegration, Gordon Basemore, American Behavioral Scientist, March 1998 v41 n6 p768(46)

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Segment Requirements
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Learning Objectives:
  • Learn and apply the principles and values of restorative justice.

  • Ability to evaluate restorative justice programs to determine if they are based on restorative justice principles and values.

  • Ability to compare and contrast restorative justice with retributive justice.
Review Topics:
  • How is it possible to tell when a program is restorative in nature?

  • What role does the victim and the community play in restorative justice?

  • In what ways are offenders held accountable in a restorative justice program?
Discussion Topics:
  1. What two primary problems must be confronted and overcome prior to successfully implementing a restorative justice program?

  2. Are there crimes that a restorative justice approach should not be used?
Writing Requirement:
  • Describe one approach that you believe would be successful in getting the members of the community involved in restorative justice.
Review Questions
  1. List two primary differences between retributive justice and restorative justice.


  2. What are the roles of the victim, community and offender in restorative justice.

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Additional Information:

Restorative justice is simple and yet complex. The concepts are simple in terms of involving the community the victim and the offender in the justice process. It is the actual implementation of the concepts that are much more difficult to accomplish. The principles and values are critical to the concept and programs that are not based on the basic principles of restorative justice are not restorative in nature. Additionally, restorative justice is not a series or set of programs but values and principles. The implementation of the principles and values should be within programs, not as an add on to existing programs.

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