Restorative Justice

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,…

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Restorative Justice

Recidivism being evaluated in a Hawai‘i state court restorative justice pilot project

We have begun analysis of recidivism data of a six year old pilot program: Pono Kaulike: A Hawaii Court Provides Restorative Practices for Healing, Walker & Hayashi, Federal Probation Journal, Vol. 71, No. 3, 18-24, 2007. Three different types of restorative justice processes, which were provided with a solution-focused approach, which Insoo Kim Berg, a co-founder of solution-focused brief therapy helped us develop.  The restorative processes were available to people convicted of crimes and to…

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