Balanced and Restorative Justice Philosophy
- Principles of Restorative Justice
- The Restorative Justice Vision
- Transforming the Current Juvenile Justice System Into a More Restorative Model
Balanced and Restorative Justice Practice: Accountability
- Characteristics of Restorative Accountability Strategies
- Restorative Accountability Practice Definitions
- Promising Programs: Accountability
- Common Problems in Choosing Accountability Strategies
- Recommended Participants for Implementation
- Roles for Juvenile Justice Professionals
Balanced and Restorative Justice Practice: Competency Development
- Characteristics of Restorative Competency Development
- Restorative Competency Development Practice Definitions
- Promising Programs: Competency Development
- Common Problems in Competency Development Programming
- Recommended Participants for Implementation
- Roles for Juvenile Justice Professionals
Balanced and Restorative Justice Practice: Community Safety
- Characteristics of Restorative Community Safety
- Restorative Community Safety Practice Definitions
- Community-Focused Community Safety Practice
- Promising Programs: Community Safety
- Common Problems in Choosing Community Safety Strategies
- Recommended Participants for Implementation
- Roles for Juvenile Justice Professionals
Putting the Pieces Together
- Weaving the Strands of Accountability, Competency Development, and Community Safety
Role Changes in Balanced and Restorative Justice
- New Roles for Victims, Communities, Juvenile Offenders, and Juvenile Justice Professionals
- Changing Decisionmaking Roles: New Options
- Skills and Knowledge Needed by the Juvenile Justice Professional
- Juvenile Justice Professional Role-Change Examples
- Juvenile Justice Professionals Engaging the Community
- Identification and Involvement of Key Stakeholders
- Long-Term Prevention Activities
- Creation of Partnerships for Prevention
- A Change in Countywide Systems Toward Restorative Justice
Measuring Outcomes
- Guiding Questions for Measuring Outcomes for Individual Dispositions
- Guiding Questions for Measuring Outcomes for the Juvenile Justice System
Balanced and Restorative Justice Practice Tools
- Quality Restorative Justice Practice
- Grounding Interventions in Key Restorative Justice Values
Case Studies That Demonstrate Change Toward a Balanced and Restorative Justice Model
- Dakota County Community Corrections, Dakota County, MN: Organizational Change
- Overview of the Dakota County Restorative Justice Effort
- Dakota County Within the Context of the Larger Balanced and Restorative Justice Effort
- Organizational Change: Eliciting Staff Support
- Implications for Other Jurisdictions
- Department of Juvenile Justice, Palm Beach County, FL: Expanding the Victim Component
- Overview of the Palm Beach County Restorative Justice Effort
- Palm Beach County Within the Context of the Larger Balanced and Restorative Justice Effort
- Case Study: Expanding the Victim Component
- Implications for Other Jurisdictions
- CISP Within the Context of the Larger Balanced and Restorative Justice Effort
- CISP Strengths Related to the Balanced and Restorative Justice Approach
- Case Study: Building Links With Neighborhoods and Community Residents
The Balanced and Restorative Justice Project is supported by a grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to Florida Atlantic University and is a joint project of the Center for Restorative Justice and Mediation at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work and Florida Atlantice University. This document was prepared under grant number 95-JN-FX-0024
Points of view or opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of OJJDP or the U.S. Department of Justice.
| The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office for Victims of Crime. |