Restorative Practices

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• Restorative Practices

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Objectives

• Compare and contrast the structure and purpose of
  various restorative practices.
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
  community boards, restorative conferencing and
  peacemaking circles.
• Identify implementation and operational issues
  regarding restorative practices.

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Community Restorative Board

• Overview
• Formal meeting structure
• Chairperson runs/guides meetings
• Duration .5-1.5 hours
• Regular board members (3-8 persons)
• Supporters for offender/victim
• Quick response

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• Goals
• Include community in addressing crime
• Address impact of offense
• Decide on how to repair harm
• Offender opportunity to take responsibility
• Provide community response to victimless crime

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• Potential Uses
• Diversion
• Post Sentence
• Probation (including violations)
• Incarceration
• Parole (including violations)
• Transition and re-entry

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Circle Process

• Overview
• Separate circle for victim offender
• Main circle
• Use of talking piece, circle keeper
• Principle of equality/equal responsibility
• Justice officials often attend
• Longer preparation time

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• Goals
• Empowerment through shared responsibility
• Address underlying causes of criminal behavior
• Promote healing for all affected parties
• Build community capacity
• Alternative forum for more serious crime/ chronic
  offenders

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• Potential Uses
• Healing circle for victims whose offenders
  werent caught
• Circle of understanding/accountability for
  offenders of victimless crimes
• Transition and re-entry of offenders
• General conflict resolution (schools, etc.)
• Any type of meeting

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Restorative Group Conferencing

• Overview
• Support systems engaged
• Circle set up
• Facilitated
• Pre-conference meetings
• Scripted sequence and steps
• Agreement focused

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• Goals
• Opportunities for stakeholder discussion,
  decision-making/repair of harm
• Realize impact of harm caused by offense
• Opportunity for victim to be heard/offender to
  take full responsibility
• Building community through dialogue

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• Potential Uses
• Diversion
• Post Sentence
• Probation (including violations)
• Incarceration
• Parole (including violations)
• Transition and re-entry

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Restorative Processes at Points in Justice Process
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Non-Program Initiatives

• Restorative case plans
• Restorative policies (personnel, etc.)
• Involve stakeholders in planning and policymaking
• Rewrite organization mission/vision/values with
  stakeholders

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• Collaborate on projects with those outside of the
  system
• Write/advocate for restorative legislation
• Restorative justice library
• Restorative speakers bureau

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• Create restorative videos/brochures/articles
• Advisory councils/boards for organizations,
  include all stakeholders
• Set a goal to increase restitution payments
• Recruit businesses to hire offenders so they can
  pay restitution