TY  - CHAP
AB  - The primary goal of the Restorative Justice process is not punishment but making good the harm done by offending for the victim, the community and the offender. Offenders have to take responsibility for their actions as a precondition to addressing the harm that they have caused. Offenders become aware that a crime is committed, not against an abstraction, but against someone real, a person like themselves and against their community, who are directly and indirectly affected by what has happened. Crime and conflict affect relationships between individuals who are left outside the court system altogether by conventional justice. Proceedings and arguments of the restorative process are voluntary for all parties. People are given the opportunity to partake in mediation, or to accept reparation. The process is always confidential however; outcomes and agreements can be made public, depending on the authorisation by participants.
VL  - 6
SN  - 978-0-85724-301-0, 978-0-85724-302-7/2041-806X
DO  - 10.1108/S2041-806X(2010)0000006006
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2041-806X(2010)0000006006
AU  - Leonard Liam
AU  - Kenny Paula
ED  - Liam Leonard
ED  - Paula Kenny
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - Chapter 3 Restoring justice to the community
T2  - Sustainable Justice and the Community
T3  - Advances in Ecopolitics
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 73
EP  - 109
Y2  - 2024/09/23
ER  -