CC211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Collective Agreement, Restorative Justice
Document Summary
Video 1: healing circle, restorative justice between victim, offender and the community, jamie. Video 3: inside canada"s prisons, hardest canada"s prison"s prison documentary. What happens in the absence of restorative justice. The cjs beings with the presumption of innocence. We must first define if the person has committed a crime. If they are guilty, then we move forward. What is the goal of rj: there are 3 parties. It is about restoring justice for all three parts: Offender - restoration for the offender - you don"t want them to reoffend. You want to restore them to normalness and back into the society. Community - community can be destroyed fast if the rate of crime is high. 12th c: rise of the state and suppression in the west. 19th c: imposition of western style cjs of colonized countries. 1960s: anti-colonial movements and return to restorative justice. Research has consistently shown that victims want to be influenced in the criminal justice process.
