Restorative justice not only for shared meetings with victims & offenders
People tend to think that restorative justice can only be accomplished when people who have committed crimes and the people they’ve hurt (offenders and victims) meet together in a shared process. This is incorrect. Restorative processes are voluntary and can be applied without ever bringing victims and offenders together. Many people who have suffered from crime, like a kind woman I am working with right now who was robbed while she was in the hospital,…