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Justice is to do right after wrongs
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 07:53 AM EST
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. Justice is giving as many
lefts as necessary to rectify a problem - usually dispensing them in multiples
of four.

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Take a look at this reference
Authored by: artp on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 12:10 PM EST

There is a very small book written by a Mennonite minister, Howard Zehr, entitled The Little Book of Restorative Justice (The Little Books of Justice & Peacebuilding) . It covers the fundamentals of an approach to justice that involves everyone affected, including the community. Current Western legal approaches exclude the victim and the community. Crime is dealt with as an offense against the government only. Some of the ideas of Restorative Justice are based in Christianity. Some come from American Indian, First Nation and aboriginal cultures. I have found it very useful and enlightening. It is well worth the time to look at it, and it only costs $4.95, a price that hardly makes it worthwhile to buy used.

How should we as a society respond to wrongdoing? When a crime occurs or an injustice is done, what needs to happen? What does justice require?

For North Americans, the urgency of these questions has been intensified by the traumatic events of September 11, 2001. The debate is an old one, though, and is truly international in scope.

Whether we are concerned with crime or other offenses, the Western legal system has profoundly shaped our thinking about these issues—not only in the Western world, but in much of the rest of the world as well.

The Western legal, or criminal justice, system’s approach to justice has some important strengths. Yet there is also a growing acknowledgment of this system’s limits and failures. Victims, offenders, and community members often feel that justice does not adequately meet their needs. Justice professionals—judges, lawyers, prosecutors, probation and parole officers, prison staff—frequently express a sense of frustration as well. Many feel that the process of justice deepens societal wounds and conflicts rather than contributing to healing or peace.

Restorative justice is an attempt to address some of these needs and limitations. Since the 1970s, a variety of programs and approaches have emerged in thousands of communities and many countries throughout the world. Often these are offered as choices within or alongside the existing legal system. Starting in 1989, however, New Zealand has made restorative justice the hub of its entire juvenile justice system.

In many places today, restorative justice is considered a sign of hope and the direction of the future. Whether it will live up to this promise remains to be seen.

Restorative justice began as an effort to deal with burglary and other property crimes that are usually viewed (often incorrectly) as relatively minor offenses. Today, however, restorative approaches are available in some communities for the most severe forms of criminal violence: death from drunken driving, assault, rape, even murder. Building upon the experience of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, efforts are also being made to apply a restorative justice framework to situations of mass violence.

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