Knowra Restorative justice Restorative justice Restorative justice is an approach to harm that brings affected people together to acknowledge its effects, encourage accountability, and agree on ways to repair it.
Restorative justice conference : A facilitated meeting where people affected by an offense discuss its impact and agree on steps to address it. Conferences put restorative justice into practice through structured dialogue and shared agreements.
Retributive justice : A theory of justice that treats proportionate punishment as a fitting response to wrongdoing. It contrasts with restorative justice's emphasis on repairing harm and meeting affected parties' needs.
Restorative practices in schools : School approaches that use relationship-building and restorative responses to address conflict and misconduct. Schools use these practices to respond to harm while maintaining students' connection to the community.
Procedural justice : The principle that fair decision-making depends partly on respectful treatment, voice, neutrality, and trustworthy authorities. Restorative dialogue can make participants' sense of fairness depend on being heard and treated respectfully.
Victim-offender mediation : A facilitated process in which a harmed person and the person responsible communicate about an offense and possible repair. This focused practice applies restorative principles to direct dialogue between harmed and responsible parties.
Criminal justice system : Public institutions and procedures for enforcing criminal law, adjudicating offenses, and imposing sanctions. Restorative processes can operate alongside, or as alternatives within, formal criminal proceedings.
Restorative justice in criminal law : The use of restorative processes in criminal cases, before or alongside formal legal proceedings. Criminal law provides settings where restorative agreements may complement or replace some conventional responses.
Victim participation in criminal proceedings : The ways victims contribute information, express views, or exercise rights during criminal proceedings. Restorative processes can give harmed people a more direct role than conventional proceedings typically provide.
Restorative circle : A facilitated group process in which participants sit in a circle and speak in turn about a conflict or harm. Circles broaden participation and use shared discussion to surface impacts and responsibilities.
Transformative justice : An approach to addressing harm that seeks to change the social conditions and relationships that enable it. It extends beyond addressing a particular incident to challenge the structures that sustain harm.
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