SOC 3710 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Value Over Replacement Player, Young Offenders Act
16 Nov 2016
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Changing laws and models of justice won"t necessarily change practices, attitudes, beliefs, or philosophies, and that assumptions play a large role in the practices of the juvenile justice system. Restorative justice model a justice model that focuses on the harm caused by crime and that seeks through responses to repair the damage done to offenders, victims, and communities. Community-based justice was practised in aboriginal communities as part of an overall holistic way of life, and these traditional practices are now being revived. Started in kitchener-waterloo area and became known as the victim-offender. Reconciliation program (vorp: involves a meeting with a trained community mediator and the wrongdoer and victim to bring about a (cid:498)greater understanding of the offence and to come to a restitution agreement(cid:499) Restorative justice philosophy has been reinforced by ycja principles and is being practiced through extrajudicial measures, provisions for sentencing conferences, and youth justice committees that act in an advisory capacity.
