Restorative Justice: Refocusing on Stakeholders

Conclusion

The criminal justice system, as it stands, fails to provide stakeholders with necessary tools for proper rehabilitation, making right, and reentering society in any meaningful way. This is where restorative justice has been able to flourish. By making victims, offenders, staff, and communities aware of each other's roles through various means of training, mediations, and other engagements- a thorough and concrete participation in restorative justice can be emphasized in society. However, pitfalls in this program do exist. This process is very involved and would require all stakeholders to be on-board with this goal. Stakeholders might not necessarily be ready for this degree of engagement yet due to past traumas or personal beliefs in restorative justice. Nevertheless, encouraging a path which emphasizes restorative justice will allow for a space in which stakeholders involved can create an impact within each others lives and within society as a whole, which is always worth persisting.

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