In addition, restorative justice assigns equally important roles for victims, offenders, and communities in participa- tion and decision making, while conceptions of community justice are typically silent on the roles of victims and offenders.

Victims, Offenders, and their support people develop their own mutually satisfying solution. Offender is accountable by taking responsibility for actions and working to repair harm. Community as facilitator of restorative process. …

Some of the most common programs typically associated with restorative justice are mediation and conflict-resolution programs, family group conferences, victim-impact panels, victim–offender mediation, circle sentencing, and community reparative boards. Suggested Reference: Development Services Group, Inc.

Restorative Community Justice is a way of responding to conflict, misbehavior and wrongdoing that makes things as right as possible for all who were impacted. These principles guide our actions in response to wrongdoing, misbehavior and conflict and in our response to them.

Time to Think: Using Restorative Questions

• What happened?
• What were you thinking of at the time?
• What have you thought about since?
• Who has been affected by what you have done?
• In what way have they been affected?
• What do you think you need to do to make things right?

Restorative Justice Typology. Restorative justice is a process involving the primary stakeholders in determining how best to repair the harm done by an offense. When a process such as victim-offender mediation includes two principal stakeholders but excludes their communities of care, the process is mostly restorative.

Introduce yourself, clearly explain your role. Ask offender to tell what happened and assess if they take at least some responsibility. Educate about restorative justice and describe what happens at a restorative conference. Explore offender concerns.

A Restorative Organisation works restoratively but does not necessarily undertake restorative processes outside of their organisation. This could be, for example, a school, care home or workplace environment.

​Restorative practice seeks to repair relationships. Restorative practice is a strategy that seeks to repair relationships that have been damaged, including those damaged through bullying. It does this by bringing about a sense of remorse and restorative action on the part of the offender and forgiveness by the victim.

The essence of restorative justice is collaborative problem-solving. Restorative practices provide an opportunity for those who have been most affected by an incident to come together to share their feelings, describe how they were affected and develop a plan to repair the harm done or prevent a reoccurrence.

Howard Zehr