Restorative Justice in Juvenile Vandalism
Create a 750- to 1,000-word rehabilitation program for your community, which includes the following:
Identify a crime problem in your area for which a restorative justice approach would be appropriate.
Develop a rehabilitation program that would address offenders of the crime you identified. Describe the characteristics of the program and the services that would be offered.
Explain how the program aligns with principles of restorative justice.
Explain how the program would rehabilitate offenders and safeguard victims and the community from further crime.
Be sure to reference the course readings to support your responses.
For this Assignment, you leave Jordan and Dante and look toward your own community. What crime problems exist there? For which crimes would a restorative justice approach be appropriate? If you had the opportunity, what kind of rehabilitation program would you develop for offenders? As you embark on this Assignment and begin to answer these questions, be sure to examine rehabilitation programs in other cities and towns to get ideas for the design of your program.
Learning Resources:
Kennedy, J. L., Tuliao, A. P., Flower, K. N., Tibbs, J. J., & McChargue, D. E. (2019). Long-term effectiveness of a brief restorative justice interventionLinks to an external site.. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 63(1), 3–17.
Insight Prison Project. (n.d.). Victim offender education group (VOEG)Links to an external site..
Maryland Department of Safety and Correctional Services. (n.d.). RehabilitationLinks to an external site..
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. (n.d.-c). Balanced and restorative justice practice: Competency developmentLinks to an external site.. In Guide for implementing the balanced and restorative justice model.
Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast. (n.d.). Community reentry programLinks to an external site..
Scheuerman, H. L. (2018). Understanding shame: Examining how justice and emotions operate in the context of restorative justice. Sociology Compass, 12Links to an external site.(2), 10–13.
The National Reentry Resource Center. (2019). Circles of support and accountabilityLinks to an external site..
Thomas, E. C., Bilger, A., Wilson, A. B., & Draine, J. (2018). Conceptualizing restorative justice for people with mental illnesses leaving prison or jailLinks to an external site.. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.
Ward, T., Fox, K. J., & Garber, M. (2014). Restorative justice, offender rehabilitation and desistance. Restorative Justice, 2Links to an external site.(1), 24.
Reisel, D. (2013, February). Daniel Reisel: The neuroscience of restorative justiceLinks to an external site. [Video file].
Note: The approximate length of this video is 14 minutes.
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Restorative Justice
The crime that happens in society that is causing major concern is juvenile vandalism. It refers to vandalism towards the property and causing damage to the community. These actions are conducted by individuals who are referred to as juveniles. Juveniles are individuals who are under the age of 18 years. Juvenile vandalism is considered a concern based on the fact that it leads to property damage, causes financial loss, and leads to a high sense of insecurity in society. Often, juvenile vandalism is seen as a minor crime, but that is not the case because it has serious crimes between offenders and victims (Kennedy et al., 2019). There is a need to address juvenile vandalism to make the community safe, and therefore, restorative justice and approaches are ideal for handling these concerns.
How the Restorative Justice Approach is Used
Young individuals in society commit juvenile vandalism. Often, these individuals need more understanding of the consequences they will face for their actions. Applying restorative justice is effective because it focuses on addressing the problem of juvenile vandalism in the community through communicating and repairing the harm done to the community (Maryland Department of Safety and Correctional Services, n.d). Moreover, through restorative justice, there is a fostering of empathy for the offenders,