Offender Awareness Process
There are 3 steps included in the offender awareness process. These processes are designed to fully understand offenders and help them realize the consequences of their actions and their responsibilities. Often the only thing waited them is time in prison. They have no chances to state their needs and carry out their obligations in order to make things right.
Step 1 : Clarify & Understand
The first step is to hear real stories from offenders. The criminal justice system asks about stories too, but only the process involved in the actual crime. Here, we would love to hear stories about offenders as human beings. We would want to know why they did this, and how did they think about their behaviors. We want to understand lives of offenders and clarify the reasons behind the crime.
- Offenders will be treated as normal people without discrimination.
- Through chat with them, their life stories and reasons of crime will be recorded and reserved for future use.
- They will also be comforted as some of the offenders may experience anxiety as well.
Step 2 : Training on Restorative Justice
Similar to the training of victims, offenders will be educated on the concepts of restorative justice. Learning the theory will help them gain better understanding of their roles in the crime and roles of other stakeholders. Moreover, some offenders may reconsider themselves after education. They can be corrected by themselves after the training.
- Specialists who study restorative justice will educate offenders on the concepts. They are able to ask questions on what ever they are confused with.
- Training will be moved on step by step until offenders fully understand what restorative justice is.
Step 3 : Address Obligations and Needs
The final step would be inform offenders with the obligations and responsibilities that they are supposed to take. Prison will not be the only result under restorative justice; instead, they will correct what they have done to others, and repair the relationships between them and other stakeholders.
- Obligations will be given to offenders based on what they have done.
- Their needs will be listened and considered.
Take a look to the training process that is similar to ours.
