Criminal Justice Case Study

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1. The differences between Restorative Justice and the mainstream criminal justice system lies within their focus and rehabilitation efforts. Moreover, Restorative Justice is a way of responding to criminal behavior by balancing the needs of the community, the victims and the offenders. Moreover, its focus is on individuals and communities, and their needs, as well as opportunities for healing. Furthermore, Restorative Justice offers rehabilitation by aiming to help offenders to recognize the harm they have caused and encouraging them to repair the harm, at the extent possible. On the other hand, the mainstream criminal justice system is directed in upholding social control, deterring and mitigating crime, or sanctioning those who violate laws …show more content…

Restorative Justice emerged with the intention of recognizing neglect victims and their needs, so only in this aspect is it fair to victim when it’s accomplished. In other words, if there is no balance such as more attention on offender or community versus victim or vice versus then there can be no fairness. On the other hand, it can only be fair to society when justice is truly served and offenders reenter the community as law abiding citizens. Unfortunately, if the resources used within Restorative Justice do not work to restore an offender and he/she go on to reoffend then it is not fair to society.
6. I was recently the victim of property crime and if the authorities would have caught who did it I would want Restorative Justice to handle them because aside from dealing with the hurt of the privacy of my home being invaded I ultimately wanted to know why. In addition, I wanted an apology and for them to replace all that was lost.
7. If I were the victim of a violent personal crime I would want the Restorative Justice System to handle them because I believe rehabilitation requires more than incarceration. Furthermore, punishment would not be enough because it would not help resolve the issues within the offender, which could subsequently prevent him/her from doing it again. Needless to say, our current mainstream criminal justice system would simple lock my offender up and later release with no true rehabilitation to prevent

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