Who created restorative justice and why? “Restorative justice is a young field that emerged during the 1990’s as alternative approaches to the court process, such as alternative dispute resolution, were becoming a national trend”. This means restorative justice emerged in the 1990’s and was one of the many alternative justice system to a court process that became a national trend (Armour, restorative justice). Restorative justice was created so criminals learned about how their crime affected the victim. It was also created so the criminal learned how their crime affected the community of the victim. When the criminal learned how the crime affected the victim and community they were taught how to learn how to fix their mistake. The main
