Examples Of Restorative Justice

Restorative Justice is a process to involve, to the extent possible, those who have a stake in a specific offense and to collectively identify and address harms, needs, and obligations, in order to heal and put things as right as possible. In the article, Offenders build empathy by speaking to victims, the article talks about different programs that use restorative justice to help not only the victims and the family of the victims to help cope and get closure, but also for the offenders that committed to help face the crime they committed against the victim and have some kind of way to make things right so they can lead a better life past the crime. The article brought up some good programs and ideas for restorative justice. But there were
There are 31 states that offer one type of restorative justice which is the victim-offender dialogue, even though in many other states offenders are barred from contact the victim or any family members of the victim. Victim -offender dialogue helps both the victim and the offender by encouraging both sides to about how both sides were affected by the crime and helps the offenders take responsibility for the crime they committed. An example is one case where a woman named Peggy Steele has had communication with her son’s killer, Bryce Todd Brosier and meeting face to face 20 years after the act. The article that the reason why she reached out stating, “Steele said she wanted specific details about her son’s death. “I wanted to know what he went through,” she said, and what his last words were — “Oh god, Todd, why? “I brought my son into this world and wasn’t there when he died,” she said. “For 19 years I just had so many scenarios going through my mind. Now I don’t have to imagine anymore.” The victim-offender dialogue helps the victim ask questions they weren’t able to ask in court and get details about they weren’t able to get from the offender and also, say things that the
Unlike the victim-offender dialogue, the prison dialogue focuses mainly on the offender to help them face the rime they’ve committed. There re programs that work to help offenders acknowledge the crime they’ve committed because, “Offenders can go into deep denial because nothing in the system makes you confront what you did,”. Trauma groups are offered for these kin of emotional and mental issues which is good for the offender and helps them become better people for society. Offenders need to confront the crime they committed and take responsibility because for some offenders’ guilt and regret will eventually hit them in life sooner or later then by they realize the error of their ways they will be at an age where they won’t have too much to do about it to get better and will be at a more mature age to become