SOC209H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Restorative Justice, Victimology, Scandinavia
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A problem-solving approach to responding to crime ch 13. Rj is based on the principle that criminal behaviour injures victims, communities and offenders. All these parties should be involved in efforts to address the causes of the behv"r and its consequences. More than half victims don"t report crime crime survivors pain is unhealed. By locking people up we don"t let them work on what they need to fix about their actions. It"s about doing sorry, not feeling sorry. It helps meet the needs of the ppl who are hurt talking about offense and make them reflect on what they did. Crime survivors want safety, but irl if incarceration provided safety, it would acc be the safest country in the world---usa. An approach to justice in which the response to a crime is to organize a mediation between the victim and the offender, sometimes with representatives of the wider community too. Confirming obligations of offenders, families, communities, society.
