CACM 11001 Lecture 15: Restorative Justice

• School: Kent State University
• Department: Applied Conflict Management
• Course: CACM 11001
• Professor: Karen D Cunningham

Document Summary

Involves dialogue and negotiation responsibility: this can benefit the community as well, goal is to solve problems not addressed in retributive justice, combines concepts of individual responsibility with community responsibility, bi-partisan support (democrats and republican) Victim-oriented programs: victim-offender mediation, family group conferencing, used in australia, talking circles, native americans use this, apology sessions, offenders write letters of apology and read them to the victim. Offender/community oriented programs: alternative sentencing programs, juveniles, minor crimes, first-time offenders, community re-entry programs, people who are leaving corrections facilities are re-integrated back into society. Victim-offender mediation: used for minor offenses, juveniles, first-time offenders, and the like, done after the person is found guilty or admits to guilt, only done if the victim wants it. Advocates for restorative justice: churches, social change groups. Justice system officials: crime victims, because they want to find a way to lower recidivism rates (so that someone else isn"t victimized the same way they were)