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Monroe County
Balanced
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Restorative Justice
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Balanced and Restorative Justice
(BARJ)
(BARJ)
•Crime is a Harm!
•Justice should be healing.
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•Crime harms:
•Victims
•Communities
•Offenders
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BARJ
BARJ
BARJ is a Philosophy
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Balanced &
Restorative Justice
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Balanced and
Restorative Justice
BARJ
BARJ
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Justice vs. Restorative Justice
•Crime is in violatio=
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law and the state
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•Crime is in violatio=
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and relationships
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•Violations
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Justice vs. Restorative Justice
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•What are their needs?
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Subcommittee
•Data Collection/Anaylsis
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Justice Subcommittee
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•Victim Support & Involvement
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Make a positive difference in our community
and in the lives of youth and families.
For More
Information
on Monroe
County’s Active Balanced Community
Initiative and Ba=
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Or Contact
April Corie or
Sandie Pierce
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216 North Monroe
St.
Monroe, MI 48161
734-242-1331 Ext. 13
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•Balanced & Restorative Justice is a
philosophy. It is an alterna=
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perspective to the justice system that focus on the state vs. an
individual.
•Restorative justice provides a different way of
looking at crime & the justice system.. Instead of understanding justice =
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in terms of guilt and punishment of an offender, the restorative justice
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•Taking responsibility for harm done is an importa=
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part of the BARJ approach.
•When the offender can admit guilt, he or she can
begin to make amends.
•Punishment alone cannot achieve this goal of
restoring the victim and the community to whole-ness.
•The formal criminal justice system is responsible
for identifying and punishing people who commit crimes.
•Some criminal justice programs may also focus on
victims of crimes in order to refer them for services or to ensure that the
offender makes restitution.
•BARJ, however, adds a third stake-holder in a cr=
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by considering the needs and strengths of the COMMUNITY which surrounds bo=
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the offender and the victim.
•It is through community involvement that the ha=
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can be repaired
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•Balanced & Restorative Justice approach cen=
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around three main stakeholders.
•It gives Victims of a crime a voice in deciding h=
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their needs can best be met, restoring their personal power. The victim and the victim’s=
need
are the main focus of the BARJ philosophy.
•When a crime is committed, it also harms the
community in which the victim and offender lives. A crime affects us all and breaks=
down
our sense of safety. It is a=
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through community involvement that the harm can be repaired. BARJ adds the community as a
stake-holder by considering the needs and strengths of the community which
surrounds both the offender and the victim. The BARJ approach helps move the
community toward taking responsibility for offender and victims so that so=
cial
control can prevent crime
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accountable to the victims by making them take responsible for their actio=
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It is the offenders responsibility to repair the harm that they have
caused. Justice is achieved =
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make amends.
•Balanced and Restorative Justice does not look at
just punishments for harms done, but looks at the needs of the victims,
offenders and the community.
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goal of restoring the victim and the community to whole-ness.
•Second to have the offender leave the system more
competent to functions within the community than when he/she entered the
system.
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of the community. When a cri=
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committed, it affects us all and breaks down our sense of safety. The community should be responsib=
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and make reparations.
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