Handbook on Restorative justice programmes

The use of restorative approaches
Case study
Family group conference
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After the offender, his mother and grandfather, the victim and the local
police officer who had made the arrest had spoken about the offence and
its impact, the youth justice coordinator asked for any additional input
from other members of the group of about ten citizens assembled in the
local school (the group included two of the offender’s teachers, two friends
of the victim and a few others). The coordinator then asked for input into
what should be done by the offender to pay back the victim, a teacher
who had been injured and had a set of glasses broken in an altercation
with the offender, and pay back the community for the damage caused
by his crime. In the remaining half hour of the approximately hour long
conference, the group suggested that restitution to the victim was in order
to cover medical expenses and the costs of a new pair of glasses and that
community service work on the school grounds would be appropriate.
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Bazemore and Griffiths, p. 25.

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