Examples Of Conferencing As A Form Of Restorative Justice

There are several constructive ways to resolve criminal violence. All of the ways are not characteristically similar. The more traditional way to solve criminal violence is punitive justice based on adversarial approach. However, another constructive system is conferencing as a form of restorative justice (RJ) where an informal dialogue is made between the participants. In this essay, the discussion will extend until the analysis of conference’s function, negative feature of prison, nature of outcome from conference for the victim and offender, the nature of offer by conferencing for victim, the healing offer by conference for the participants, advantage and disadvantage of conference for sexual violence, comparative discussion about court …show more content…
Conferencing as a form of restorative justice (RJ) is a procedure where concerning people, of a crime or a wrong conduct, are usually involved or the whole community concerning the issue is required to be a part to solve the problem. This RJ cannot resolve the universal problem arising from class, race or gender discrimination. Though, RJ plays a significant role for this universal issues in transformative justice procedure. Under the system of RJ, in case of a crime issue, the victims and offenders are supposed to be in dominant position but in back seat the state are located. This RJ, particularly conferencing, does not concern to impose punishment but aiming to heal both the individual concerned and the community. This healing notion is done by imposing reparation instead of punishment which is usually imposed by court of …show more content…
The principles of restorative justice have promised great offers for the victim. The definition of crime is refined to create responsibilities to recognise the victim. To imposing validation of the victim’s worth as a part of the community, the victims are motivated. The idea is that when a crime occurs then it produce duty to identify the victim as a person to whom the offender is primarily and seriously responsible. As the principle of RJ, the aim of the conference is to reparation of harm, hence it delivers chances for effective and successful participation of victim to calculating harms and requirements because of harm. Moreover, at the commencement of finding out the harm, the system give importance to deliver instant direct support to the victims. This is intensifying the probability of response even if there is not offender is identified. An emphasis on recognising the victim is required as the starting part of justice and also need to assess the requirement of the victim from the community which is the most essential starting step in the whole recovery process. The importance of reparation, ventilation, endorsement, safety and security will be given when the crisis and trauma intrusion are resolved by standard approach. In a justice process, identify the harm and provides needs in