Like community policing, it's a way of doing business differently. Unlike the current adversarial system which is based on punishment, restorative justice encourages dialogue and responsibility for past behaviour, while focusing on future problem-solving and offender accountability. Ideally, the victim, the offender and the community should be involved in ' making things right ' to enable all parties to be returned to their pre-crime states. Restorative justice views crime as a violation of one person by another not simply as a breaking of the 'law'. You may want to write these existing community initiatives on the board or flipchart.
Strategies can be as numerous as communities.
The RCMP is not advocating that CJF's are the only way to respond to conflict. Encourage the group to challenge each other on their ideas. Ensure that points listed below are covered in the dialogue. Fact finding Investigative fact finding has been a traditional way for the police to assess blame and ultimately solve crimes. Often we see an exclusive focus on facts to the detriment of feelings and emotions in dealing with conflict.