The educative function of law is satisfied by this community moral development, as parties learn from one another. Community moral development provides the educating function that proportionality , for a retribution-oriented system, seeks to achieve. This moral development is increased as representatives of the community are included as parties. The value of the restorative process is the moral education achieved through the active participation of the parties in the absence of formal rules and procedures. For law is not simply a set of rules and procedures, although many who participate in juvenile and criminal justice will experience it as that.
Law is also an expression of values and norms.
For other resources and annotated bibliography on this subject This document prepared by Christopher Bright. Copyright 1997 by Prison Fellowship International.