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Restoration of Justice in the Judiciary
The Aims of Restorative Justice
Restorative justice is concerned with healing victims' wounds, restoring offenders to law-abiding lives, and repairing harm done to interpersonal relationships and the community. It seeks to involve all stakeholders and provide opportunities for those most affected by the crime to be directly involved in the process of responding to the harm caused. Michelle Maiese
Although most definitions of restorative justice is focused on victims, lostjustice.org recognizes that this focus is at the expense of any restoration of the offender. For both the victim and the offender an offense is a life changing event with many years, if not a life time to restore healing for both victim and offender.
Lostjustice.org does not believe in the continual victimization of the victim, nor do we believe in the continual punishment of the offender. There are organizations that use victims to further their nefarious aims by exploiting victims, and seeking to punish offenders long after they have legally paid their dues to the state and communities. Both victim and offender require some measure of restorative therapy, not continual punishment and fear through exploitive means of government and so called victims advocate groups.