Restorative Justice As Effective Form Of Punishment

Restorative justice has been proven to be more effective than being within a penitentiary or other form of punishment. However, over the years it still hasn’t changed the course of the criminal justice system. Even with the great levels of contentment amidst victims shown by research, there are certain studies which centre on conferences and mediation which it’ll need to be refrain from overstating the benefits of restorative justice.

Even with all the solutions I'm programmes victims are given for their problems they could still not be able to resolve them. Professionals and the individuals around the victim should not view their needs simplistically due to the reparation and healing they’ll receive from the programmes. For community’s, victims and offender’s restorative justice is a good solution. On the other hand, it is not a solution for all evils. I believe it should remain an option for certain crimes in certain circumstances and only under some conditions. It overall shouldn’t be considered anything less than justice as there is evidence of it being effective. Nor must it minimise the valid demands of victims.

Without restorative justice offenders would be segregated and ostracised they would be rendered more than less of a threat to victims. They would be driven to commit more criminal acts and become more alienated from their communities. The community would lose the opportunity to restore the offenders, helping them to do better and subject them to various forms of supervision. This is why it is important for victims to strengthen their relationship with their offenders the best way possible rather than weaken it.

To conclude individuals against the restorative justice process would argue that this process would leave victims in a worse situation emotionally than they were before the process and could possibly leave offenders unrepentant of their offences.

This process provides more potential for good than the traditional conventional justice processes, as it helps to get through to the offenders mentally and it benefits the victims who have been affected by the offences committed against them.

This essay highlights that restorative justice does overall have a positive effect on victims if the process is successfully done by having a constructive interaction between them and the offender. Dissimilar to the punitive system, the restorative justice process seeks to repair the victim’s safety, security, self-respect, dignity and the ability to have control over their own lives. Out of every crime the victim is placed within the centre of what occurs, and various victims view the experience as positive for their lives. It also allows the victim to be involved directly of the process or restoration and justice.

Lastly, the although it has been able to help everyone, its restorative justice can make a substantial improvement to victims of crime. I believe it would be a positive to attach restorative justice within court proceedings as putting them together can improve the criminal justice system for the better, making it effective.