Restorative Justice

Question 1

What are the aims of restorative justice

Answer 1

. Repair harm between offender and victim
. Improve the experience for the victim and encourage the offender to take responsibility for their crime

Question 2

What is the restorative justice process

Answer 2

Can be diverse but most share same key features:
- focus on acceptance of responsibility and positive change
- not restricted to courtrooms

Question 3

What are restorative justice councils

Answer 3

. Independent body whose role is to establish clear standards for RJ
^ advocates use of restorative practice in preventing/managing conflict
^ intersectionality undermines this idea due to their not being sense of equality

Question 4

Evaluation

Answer 4

Diversity of Programmes (S)
. schemes can be tailored and adapted to needs of individual situation
- counterargument = difficult in drawing conclusions about effective

Expensive (W)
. expensive to implement as requires lots of training
- counterargument = RJC calculated Gov will save £8 for every £1 they spend on implementing RJ

Feminist Critique (W)
. Womens Aid strongly against it for use of domestic abuse and SA as too traumatic
- counterargument = many argue for ‘pro choice’ - women should be granted the choice