PACS329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Restorative Justice, Tantrum
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Putting it all together - the opportunity of restorative justice. Those most affected should be involved in working towards making things as right as possible. Every person counts everyone needs to be respected, heard, and understood everyone deserves to be treated justly everyone is capable of change and healing if his or her needs are met. Justice requires accountability that changes and heals people and relationship people create justice together. There is a ripple that happens out from the individual and out to others: individual - interpersonal. Howard zehr suggests a number of human needs that he says is within us all. He looks out at how crime and trauma affect those needs. The three central needs are identity, relationships, and. Clark says that all human beings need autonomy, bonding, and meaning (meaning being the most essential need) It is disempowerment of autonomy, disconnections from the bonding (includes safety), and disorder of meaning.