Assertion: restitution | /r/HasProperty | compensatory mechanism
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text: Congress made clear its intent for restitution to be a compensatory mechanism that allowed a defendant to “make personal recompense to his victim” while also being a punitive mechanism requiring him to “pay his debt to society.”71 Eight years later, then-Senator Joseph Biden introduced a bill—that later became the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (“VAWA”)—which included language mandating restitution for victims of sex-related and domestic violence crimes.72