회복적 교정을 통한 피해자와 가해자의 관계개선에 관한 연구

A Study on Relationship of Victim and Offender through Restorative Justice in Prison

In our correction’s system, the main purpose is that prisoners(offenders) make well to go back to their society. If the correctional institutions work for isolation from society, this can not only conflict with ideas of correction, but also hard to achieve true improvement for prisoners. Our correctional institutions have tried to apply rehabilitation to the society, resocialization, reintegration to programs since 10 years, but these programs are focused mostly employment training, offering employment, improvement for relationship with their family. If we want to make prisoner truly go back to society, we should try to make prisoners take a responsibility and regret their offense. For these essential functions of correction, applying idea of Restorative Justice-“Improvement of relationship”-will be the best way to take responsibility from their offense by themselves. By the victim tries to restore his/her harm, we can achieve true correction’s ideas. Thus, I want to suggest Victim-Offender Conferencing Program for improvement of relationship in correctional process. I believe this can give an opportunity to restore their offense and set up the correctional circumstance for restoration.