Traditional Approach |
Restorative Approach |
School rules are broken |
People and relationships are harmed |
Justice focuses on establishing guilt |
Justice identifies needs and responsibility |
Accountability = punishment |
Accountability = Understanding impact and repairing harm |
Justice directed at the offender; the victim is ignored |
Offender, victim and school all have direct roles in the justice process |
Rules and intent outweigh whether outcome is positive or negative |
Offender is responsible for harmful behavior, repairing harm and working towards positive outcomes |
Limited opportunity for expressing remorse or making amends. |
Opportunity given to make amends and express remorse. |