Restorative Justice

Restorative justice is an approach to justice in which the response to a crime is to organize a dialogue between the victim and the offender, and sometimes the wider community as well. The goal is to negotiate for a resolution to the satisfaction of all participants. It aims to get offenders to take responsibility for their actions, to understand the harm they have caused, to give them an opportunity to redeem themselves and to discourage them from causing further harm. For victims, its goal is to give them an active role in the process.
== Effectiveness ==
Restorative Justice has been applied and studied in many different cultures, across all age groups, classes and crimes ranging from simple vandalism to murder and rape.
* In 2007, the University of Pennsylvania conducted a meta-study that concluded that restorative justice had the highest rate of victim satisfaction and offender accountability of any method of justice.Lawrence W Sherman & Heather Strang (2007) "Restorative Justice: The Evidence" http://www.iirp.edu/pdf/RJ_full_report.pdf
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