California Restorative Justice Policy Coalition
Bringing together practitioners and organizations who recognize that policy has a role in protecting existing restorative practices, dismantling punitive approaches to harm, and removing barriers so community-centered restorative justice can grow.
What is restorative justice?
While definitions vary, the coalition views restorative justice as a community-based, non-punitive approach to harm that encourages accountability, healing, and repair.
Restorative justice is about how you create, maintain, and mend relationships. It is based on the philosophy that we are all interconnected and that after harm, the way forward is reached collectively by those most impacted. Restorative justice processes allow the person harmed to share the impact and what they need to heal, allow the person who caused harm to articulate the reasons for their actions and to take accountability, and invite the community to support participants through this process.
Restorative justice is a practice and theory rooted in and developed from indigenous practices.
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