CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Restorative Justice, Adversarial System, Arbitrary Arrest And Detention

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 131
• Professor: Sheri Fabian

Document Summary

Central focus: victim needs & offender responsibility; repairing harm. Comparison of criminal justice and restorative justice participants and processes. Principles of restorative justice: righting wrongs, addressing harms and needs, confirming obligations of offenders, families, communities and society. Restorative justice: 6 main objectives: there are 6 main objectives, needs of victims, offender acknowledges responsibility, creates community of support, alternative to adversarial justice system, avoids escalation of legal justice, cost, delay, prevent reoffending through reintegration. Effectiveness of rj: research shows, most effective - serious violent crimes, humanizes the individual, crime victim satisfaction, victims feel as if they are part of the process, reduced recidivism rates. Less likely for the offender to re-offend: some jurisdictions, reduced court costs & processing times. Crime & cjs: expensive: annual operating cost cjs - billion, mostly policing, value for service, generally no b/c dropping crime rates, crime rates declining for past 40 years.