CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Restorative Justice, Social Change, Tyin
28 May 2016
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Traditional model of criminal justice in canada is largely retributive in nature. Retributive justice: focuses on punishing offenders in proportion to the seriousness of their crimes. Restorative justice: goal is not to punish offenders but rather to seek reconciliation between offender and victim and to restore the offender to the community: benefit for victim. Restorative justice is a program, one that divers nonviolent, first time lawbreakers from jail to community based measures: more like adding on program to the retributive justice system. Justice focuses on equality in the relationship between parties through punishment. Punishment intends inflicting pain, suffering or loss onto the offender as a way of equalizing harm suffered by the victim. Justice is achieved through finding of guilt, sentencing and implementation. Justice is institutionalized as justice is the domain of professionals and institutions involved in criminal: increased dependency of citizens on professionals to solve conflicts, undermine ability to handle own problems.
