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Weeks 6 and 7
Comments
Restorative Justice
Return to
Week Six and Seven Assignments
Listen
to the Comments 
 Restorative
justice offers several overall principles as guidelines. These principles
include:
- Crime is a tear in the social fabric. It
is an offense against persons and relationships, not an impersonal
entity such as "the state."
- The community, not the external system,
is the driving force behind the process.
- Victims, offenders and community members
all must be provided with opportunities for input and participation
in the justice process as early and as fully as possible.
- Diverse points of view are critical to
the creation of wise, effective decisions.
- Justice requires an opportunity for healing
and repair.
- The members of the justice system agencies
should not ask victims, offenders and community to change unless
the members of the justice system are willing to sit beside
them.
- There is a need to pay attention to the
unintended consequences of our actions and programs.
- There is a need to recognize that our actions,
thoughts and attitudes affect others and we are responsible
for acting for the greater good.
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