The “justice as healing” worldview focuses on Navajo responses to crime that promotes healing damaged relationships, expressing feelings, and reconciliation (Yazzie, 2005). According to the Navajo courts, law reflects social norms that comprise morals, shared values, and emotions (Yazzie, 2005). Punishment is not necessary according to Navajo responses, but restorative values such as renewing damaged relationships and making amends for victims who are harmed by the offender remains essential for signifying justice (Yazzie, 2005). An individual is viewed as an offender if he or she disrespects relationships and disregards others (Yazzie, 2005). In the traditional Navajo approach, when a conflict exists between two individuals, then a peacemaker
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The criminal justice system also integrates Navajo responses to establish justice between the offender and the victim. For instance, courts comprise diversion programs that direct certain case proceedings such as family violence, domestic abuse, and alcohol related abuse to community justice approaches (Yazzie, 2005). Overall, the “justice as healing” worldwide remains immensely analogous to traditional worldviews because both perspectives focus on repairing damaged relationships, but oppose punishment as means of establishing justice within the community (Asadullah, 2018). This conveys that these perspectives place greater emphasis on collaborative efforts to heal physical and emotional harms imposed on the offender and the victim without punitive means. Yazzie’s “justice as healing” worldview differentiates from Wenzel’s “justice as retribution” because healing enforces cooperation and effective communication between involved parties to alter offender’s actions, but retribution involves adversarial measures and competitiveness among the involved parties in order to resolve conflict and deter future …show more content…
For example, Jacquie’s mother was murdered by first time offenders who were convicted and imprisoned. However, Jacquie was emotionally devastated due to continuous court proceedings in which she had to express her victim impact statements. The restorative justice model incorporates personal values, so it was a valuable opportunity for the offenders and Jacquie to gain insight regarding the reasons for the murder and the sharing of compassion and emotions that was not possible in the state-based justice process. According to Jacquie, the experience with the restorative justice model was accommodating because it allowed the offenders to show empathy, mutual understanding, and accountability for the crimes that they have committed. Jacquie was extremely fearful and suffered from anxiety before engaging in a collaborative interaction with one of the offenders, but she noticed that the offender demonstrated great remorse and shame for his horrendous involvement. The relationship between Jacquie and offender was gradually healing. Thus, restorative values efficiently resolve conflict and psychological harm, which makes the restorative justice model an effective approach in demonstrating
The criminal justice system also integrates Navajo responses to establish justice between the offender and the victim. For instance, courts comprise diversion programs that direct certain case proceedings such as family violence, domestic abuse, and alcohol related abuse to community justice approaches (Yazzie, 2005). Overall, the “justice as healing” worldwide remains immensely analogous to traditional worldviews because both perspectives focus on repairing damaged relationships, but oppose punishment as means of establishing justice within the community (Asadullah, 2018). This conveys that these perspectives place greater emphasis on collaborative efforts to heal physical and emotional harms imposed on the offender and the victim without punitive means. Yazzie’s “justice as healing” worldview differentiates from Wenzel’s “justice as retribution” because healing enforces cooperation and effective communication between involved parties to alter offender’s actions, but retribution involves adversarial measures and competitiveness among the involved parties in order to resolve conflict and deter future …show more content…
For example, Jacquie’s mother was murdered by first time offenders who were convicted and imprisoned. However, Jacquie was emotionally devastated due to continuous court proceedings in which she had to express her victim impact statements. The restorative justice model incorporates personal values, so it was a valuable opportunity for the offenders and Jacquie to gain insight regarding the reasons for the murder and the sharing of compassion and emotions that was not possible in the state-based justice process. According to Jacquie, the experience with the restorative justice model was accommodating because it allowed the offenders to show empathy, mutual understanding, and accountability for the crimes that they have committed. Jacquie was extremely fearful and suffered from anxiety before engaging in a collaborative interaction with one of the offenders, but she noticed that the offender demonstrated great remorse and shame for his horrendous involvement. The relationship between Jacquie and offender was gradually healing. Thus, restorative values efficiently resolve conflict and psychological harm, which makes the restorative justice model an effective approach in demonstrating