Restorative Justice

Restorative justice is an approach to justice in which one of the responses to a crime is to organize a meeting between the victim and the offender, sometimes with representatives of the wider community. The goal is for them to share their experience of what happened, to discuss who was harmed by the crime and how, and to create a consensus for what the offender can do to repair the harm from the offense. This may include a payment of money given from the offender to the victim, apologies and other amends, and other actions to compensate those affected and …

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Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English

Keywords of the Datafied State is a collection of essays on concepts that are central to understanding the relationship between government and technology, and how it differs across geographies. Underlying …

situations, as well as other models for restorative justice-based parole and reintegration. Nathan C


Data & Society Institute · 23 April 2024 English

She is currently a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo and a visiting professor in the sociology graduate program at the University of …

situations, as well as other models for restorative justice-based parole and reintegration. Nathan C


R Street Institute · 17 April 2024

RSI HIGHLIGHTS REPORT 2023 PAGE 8 ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT The Energy and Environment team seeks to promote a cleaner environment through the combination of a thriving economy, well- 2023 Research …

2023) among others. Justice for All: How Restorative Justice Mutually Benefits Victims and Youth (Policy rstreet.org/research/justice-for-all-how-restorative-justice-mutually-benefits-victims-and-youth/ https://www rstreet.org/research/justice-for-all-how-restorative-justice-mutually-benefits-victims-and-youth/ https://www


Maine Policy Institute · 16 April 2024 English

Even so, it is fair to state that what has story of how politicians in Augusta began happened in Maine has much to do with the standardizing education with laws …

In 2019, Governor Mills These include “restorative justice,” “peer juries,” signed into law a bill that programs and 50 trainings in Maine schools. The Restorative Justice throw out a ball, and the student who caught P047301.asp. 142. “Mission Goals.” n.d. Restorative Justice Institute of Maine. https://www.rjimaine


RAND Corporation · 11 April 2024 English

The Minor Victims of Sex Trafficking Program aims to develop and strengthen victim service programs for trafficking victims. These sites provide services to minor victims of sex trafficking and collaborate …

treatment for purchasers’ program inclusive of restorative justice and similar to treatment for domestic violence


TSP: Sentencing Project · 10 April 2024 English

Issue Brief #3 Protect and Redirect: Measuring Equity and Results in Juvenile Diversion Robust data collection and analysis are essential tools Careful attention to data is necessary to answer ques- …

score. Ideally, these youth are engaged in restorative justice programs, giv- studies also should examine LGBTQ youth and en the research showing that restorative justice yields those with disabilities. far greater teams from several counties used data ex- Restorative Justice Diversion tensively as part of a workshop and placed on probation for nity-based restorative justice diversion programs crimes in which there should be disaggregated (sorted) by ning new restorative justice diversion programs.) race, sex, race and


TSP: Sentencing Project · 10 April 2024 English

They can hire staff Typically, restorative justice interventions from similar backgrounds and with similar experi bring together those most affected by an of ences to the young people, and they are better both to ensure con for youth who would otherwise be arrested and prose fidentiality in the restorative justice process and to cuted in the justice system. [...] However, considerable re address mistrust pose a significant risk to public safety, youth whose ernments Justice Center concluded: “Restorative justice lawbreaking and other conduct problems are driven programs are more responsive to youth needs

should be community- led with a focus on restorative justice. Young people’s likelihood of avoiding future important for sev­ What Is Restorative Justice? eral reasons. Restorative justice is an alternative to the families. They can hire staff Typically, restorative justice interventions from similar backgrounds and court­affiliated agencies to facilitate meaningful restorative justice practices that enable youth to understand arrested and prose­ fidentiality in the restorative justice process and to cuted in the justice system


TSP: Sentencing Project · 10 April 2024 English

families, and community members with direct ex- perience in the youth justice system to tell their The recent momentum to expand the use of diversion in stories and highlight the …

requires a meaningful in the public understand restorative justice.5 How- response.3 Therefore, except for youth not just diversion away from for expanding restorative justice is also bolstered by the justice system. youth, and their families. 6 principles of restorative justice. Most voters sup- ● Make racial and ethnic people of color more alternatives employing restorative justice practices harshly than whites. However, the scholar restorative justice programs give youth a chance to specializing in restorative justice apologize


HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies · 4 April 2024 English

In the same year, the Horn of Africa after China, the Türkiye pumped in significant humanitarian aid to European Union, the United States, Somalia in terms of relief food, healthcare …

be victim-centered and focus more on the restorative justice component to unveil the truth to foster national societies emerging from the troubled past. Restorative justice as an approach ... the African traditional justice system is based on its people the restorative justice approach that does not differentiate between international criminal laws but with more about restorative justice. As a restorative proper sequencing with


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 4 April 2024 English

How do majority groups respond to a narrowing of inequality in racially polarized environments? We study this question by examining the effects of the Freedmen’s Bureau, an agency created after …

data were produced by the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) at Northeastern University


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