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What is the Restorative Justice?

One of the significant international developments about criminology and criminal justice in last five decades of twentieth century is the growing interest in restorative justice. The term 'restorative justice' as yet has no settled meaning. Indeed, and partly because of this lack of agreement, a recent United Nations document proposing 'basic principles' on the use of restorative justice deliberately avoided defining the term. Restorative justice emphasizes the importance of elevating the role of crime victims and community members, holding offenders directly accountable to the people they have violated, restoring the emotional and material losses of victims, and providing a range of opportunities for dialogue, negotiation, and problem solving, whenever possible, thet can lead to a greater sense of community safety, conflict resolution, and closure for all involved. I am trying in this paper to introduce clear definition of restorative justice and to present appropriate korean term of related concept to restorative justice; victim-offender mediation, victim-offender reconciliation, conference and circle model, mediation, restoration, restitution and compensation etc.