Restorative justice is a practice that seeks to address the harm caused with the goal of promoting healing via connection and empathy. It acknowledges the harm caused to victims, their families, and their communities and helps the offender understand why what they did was harmful, thus promoting accountability. It requires vulnerability, trust, respect, and empathy. It can be a method to breaking the cycle of abuse and to ensure that victims are heard. Restorative justice offers the chance for offenders to develop a new empathic perspective for the future that includes the belief that everyone is deserving of respect.
Examples of restorative justice: victim/offender dialogues, vicarious restorative justice, victim panels, family group conferences, peacemaking circles.
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