Juvenile Restorative Justice System Essay
JUVENILE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE SYSTEM
Abstract
Recently many people who are concern about the juvenile delinquent justice systems, started to promoting restorative juvenile justice system. The restorative justice system is a system where its focuses are on the needs of the victims, the offenders and the communities. Its aim is to be fair to all the stakeholders (the victims, the offenders, and the communities). Even though it is not a 100% effective for everyone, however by many research it has been proven that restorative justice programs to be more effective for the youth offenders to realize their mistake, not to reoffends, and mend the relationship back between the youth delinquents, the victims and also with the communities.
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In correctional juvenile justice system when a crime is committed, they will asks; who did it, which laws that have been broken by it, and what kind punishment for the offenders. In restorative justice instead of those question they will asks; who is responsible for it?, what is the effect from the crime, and how to "make it right" or what is need to be done to restore it?(Bazemore & Umbreit, 2001). In restorative justice they want the offenders to understand what kind of harm they have caused for the victims and the communities. The restorative justice also wish for the victims and the communities to know the reasons why the offenders did the crime, and together deciding on what the offenders should do to restore the damage they have caused. It teaches the offenders to be responsible on their actions not only from the punishments but also by repairing the harm and by gaining the understanding on what are the domino (negative) effects from their
Abstract
Recently many people who are concern about the juvenile delinquent justice systems, started to promoting restorative juvenile justice system. The restorative justice system is a system where its focuses are on the needs of the victims, the offenders and the communities. Its aim is to be fair to all the stakeholders (the victims, the offenders, and the communities). Even though it is not a 100% effective for everyone, however by many research it has been proven that restorative justice programs to be more effective for the youth offenders to realize their mistake, not to reoffends, and mend the relationship back between the youth delinquents, the victims and also with the communities.
JUVENILE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE SYSTEM Juvenile restorative justice …show more content…
In correctional juvenile justice system when a crime is committed, they will asks; who did it, which laws that have been broken by it, and what kind punishment for the offenders. In restorative justice instead of those question they will asks; who is responsible for it?, what is the effect from the crime, and how to "make it right" or what is need to be done to restore it?(Bazemore & Umbreit, 2001). In restorative justice they want the offenders to understand what kind of harm they have caused for the victims and the communities. The restorative justice also wish for the victims and the communities to know the reasons why the offenders did the crime, and together deciding on what the offenders should do to restore the damage they have caused. It teaches the offenders to be responsible on their actions not only from the punishments but also by repairing the harm and by gaining the understanding on what are the domino (negative) effects from their