Restorative Justice Protects Victims While Retributive Justice Seeks Revenge
Restorative justice values the voice of victims and works to protects their rights. Another sad example of how our retributive justice system works to re-victimize victims, is the story of a woman whose voice was not heard or valued by the system. The woman was 13 years old in 1977 when charges were brought against movie director Roman Polanski for sexually assaulting her. Because Polanski fled the county before being sentenced for having sex with…