Colleges and universities can use conferences with dormitory and campus incidents and disciplinary violations. In workplaces conferencing addresses both wrongdoing and conflict. Repairing the harm A conference is a structured meeting between offenders, victims and both parties' family and friends in which they deal with the consequences of the crime and decide how best to repair the harm. Neither a counseling nor a mediation process, conferencing is a straightforward problem-solving method that demonstrates how citizens can resolve their own problems when provided with a constructive forum to do so. Conferences provide victims and others an opportunity to confront the offender, express their feelings, ask questions and have a say in the outcome.
Offenders hear firsthand how their behavior has affected people.
They may begin to repair the harm by apologizing, making amends and agreeing to financial restitution or personal or community service work. A scripted process Participation in conferences is voluntary. A Real Justice conference can be used in lieu of traditional disciplinary or justice processes, or where that is not appropriate, as a supplement to those processes. Conference facilitators stick to a simple script and keep the conference on focus, but are not active participants. A conference is far more productive and rewarding than the current means of responding to wrongdoing.