Three minute video explaining the difference between Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE8TDzlR2tg Some key points: Restorative justice represents a paradigm change from thinking about justice as a mechanism for social control to thinking about justice as a mechanism for social engagement. In a criminal justice process the questions that get asked are: what happened? who did it? what do they deserve? In a restorative justice process the questions that get asked are: what happened? whose obligations are these? what do we need to do to right the wrongs? Injustice creates social and emotional harms to people and relationships, and so restorative justice is about repairing the harm done. Harry