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JM 721

Victims’ Issues, Restitution, and Restorative Justice

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelGraduate
Average gradeA
Standard

Overview

Description

Study of victim’s needs and strategies to make juvenile systems responsive and effective in dealing with victims and increasing offender accountability.

Units

Lecture3

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Offering

Offered: Every Spring

Terms

spring

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • define restorative justice.
  • demonstrate understanding of the difference between rehabilitation, retribution and restorative justice.
  • perceive the importance of protection of the community to the system of accountability.
  • demonstrate understanding of the role that victims can and should play in a juvenile justice system.
  • demonstrate understanding of the concept of balanced and restorative justice.
  • demonstrate understanding of the purpose of mediation and other topics or techniques of restorative justice in a juvenile justice system.
  • demonstrate understanding of how a punitive system can be contrasted with reform efforts in the treatment of juveniles.