[Sociology 2140] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 108 pages long Study Guide!
29 Nov 2016
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Providing restitution & financially compensating victim for property loss and personal injury. Community service: offers works certain number of hours within community. Work in cooperation with crown attorney"s office. Bring victimizer and victim together in belief that both will benefit. E. g. committing a crime may require that offender discount the consequences of their actions on the victim or blame the victim. Face-to-face meetings encourage a sense of personal culpability and compassion for victim. The hindsight effect: encourages victims to overestimate the extent of which they could have avoided victimization, confronting the victimizer lessens the self-blame. Empowering to see victimizer as other human being. Philosophy concerned with reconciling conflict between the offender, community, and victim. Approach to justice that focuses on dealing with the harmful effects of crime by engaging victims, offenders, and community in process of reparation and healing. Emphasizes individual and social healing, forgiveness, communication, and problem solving: rather than punishment.
