CC211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Restorative Justice, Human Rights, Social Distance
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The plan is developed to restore the harm done by the crime. Prevention is addressed: preventing youth from breaking the law. Monitoring: who will check that the plan is completed. Restore the harm that has been done to the family: family conferencing. The model is used in other countries. Problem: the truth was repressed by the state. South africa, northern ireland, rwanda (1994), el salvador, chile, argentina, canada. Trying to restore trust in the government. Circles: healing the offender, victim, and family. Went to circle court because people knew him and gave him a different sentence. Circles in canada: dining room table, opening gifts in a circle on christmas morning. Who are the victims, offenders, and the community: court system tends to be one sided. Crime is a violation of a person by another person (zehr, 1990:18: obligation to have things made right. Crime is also a violation of the just relationship that should exist between people.
