* When people and relationships are harmed, needs are created
* The needs created by harms lead to obligations.
* The obligation is to heal and “put right” the harms; this is a just response.
3 principles of restorative justice reflect these assumptions: A just response…
* acknowledges and repairs the harm caused by, and revealed by, wrongdoing (restoration);
* encourages appropriate responsibility for addressing needs and repairing the harm (accountability);
* involves those impacted, including the community, in the resolution
(engagement).
(engagement).
3 underlying values provide the foundation:
* Respect
* Responsibility
* Relationship
3 questions are central to restorative justice:
* Who has been hurt?
* What are their needs?
* Who has the obligation to address the needs, to put right the harms, to restore relationships?
(As opposed to:
(As opposed to:
What rules were broken? Who did it? What do they deserve?)
3 stakeholder groups should be considered &/or involved:
* Those who have been harmed, and their families
* Those who have caused harm, and their families
* Community
3 aspirations guide restorative justice: the desire to live in right relationship:
* with one another;
* with the creation;
* with the Creator.
