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Restorative Justice In North America

Restorative justice is to restore the victims-offenders-communities with a participation of a plurality of stakeholder. In contrast to the offender-driven nature of our current criminal justice, restorative justice focuses on above. This presents a growing international movement with a relatively clear set of values, principles, and guideline for practice, though at this point in its development still lacking a comprehensive plan for broad implementation as a new paradigm that might fully replace our current systems of juvenile and criminal justice. Rstorative justice is a victim-centered response to crime that give the individuals most directively affected by criminal act-the victim, the offender, their families, and representatives of the community-the opportunity to be directly involved in responding to the harm cause by the crime. But restorative justice is not about specific programs or a specific process but a philosophy, a set of principles and values. This is based on values that emphasize the importance of providing more active support and assistance to crime victims; holding offenders directly accountable to the people and communities they have violated; restoring the emotional and material losses of victims as much as possible; providing a range of opportunities for dialogue and problem solving among interested crime victims, offenders, families, and other support persons; offering offenders opportunities for competency development and reintegration into productive community life; and strengthening public safety through community building. This essay is to study the restorative justice systems in North America(Canada, U.S.), and with this results this has an aim that why restorative justice is needed, what criminal circumstances should be prepared, how this systems should be run in korean criminal justice systems. What we should prepare is not a discussion the need of restorative justice but a preparation for the way we should adopt it or how should operate it with criminal justice system.