Restorative Justice

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Restorative Justice Used in Public Schools In 1977, a psychologist by the name of Albert Eglash first coined the word restorative justice while working with incarcerated people. He believed that it was a way to focus on the needs of the victims and the offenders as well as getting involved in the community. Restorative justice is a peaceful approach to addressing harm, violations of legal and human rights, and problem solving. Although restorative justice has been the main focus point in Schools in the U.S., it is also used in the juvenile system and in schools outside of the U.S. Schools across the country have adopted multiple approaches under the restorative justice umbrella to transition away from their traditional punishment …show more content…

“Over 1,124 persons have attended sensitisation sessions across the Jamaica in September,” said Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck. For example, in Asia, restorative justice is mostly used in juvenile discipline and on peacemaking for their divided society. Most of the other countries located in Europe and Africa use restorative justice in schools, but most of the time it’s used in criminal justice and foreign affairs. Though to some people, restorative justice isn’t the key to helping improve our school systems. They believe that corporal justice should be used more for physical discipline would teach the students not to do it again vs restorative which they believe is expensive and ineffective; “restorative justice is great and all, but I’m more of a fan of “if you can make it sting, you can make it stop (Forge).” The truth is that, restorative justice has made an impact in public schools for decreasing dropout rates and suspensions. Multiple statistics have shown that not only in the state of Texas, but also in California, Washington, and Florida. Texas statistically saw a major drop in both expulsion and suspensions in their public schools in the past two years. Since restorative justice uses a “talk it out” form of problem solving, then the victim will not be fighting since they are using words to explain your situation and hopefully finding even …show more content…

Though it would cost a little extra to pay for training individuals in the art of Restorative Justice, the outcome would be well worth it. The country needs to get rid of corporal justice in the nineteen states, since physical discipline might have worked back in the early 50s and 60s, but in today’s society, we have different kinds of individuals that need to be helped through talking and not beating. Schools need to show compassion to the victims rather than turn them away at a moment's notice. In most schools, if the victim attempts to defend himself or throws a defensive punch, then he will get three days of out of school suspension or close to the same punishment as the tormenter, which is an unfair, since all he was doing was defending

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