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
Catalog Details
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.