November 21 marks the start of National Restorative Justice Week in Canada
‘Restorative justice is a methodology that believes that through people sharing, speaking, and also being heard, that healing can happen,” said Stacey Lavallie, program co-ordinator with Sudbury District Restorative Justice. “It isn’t about punishment. It isn’t about retribution. It’s about both the victim and the individual who caused harm talking to each other and finding a way to make real and substantial efforts at healing the wound that was caused by whatever happened.”
Traditional justice is much more effective when the person does not take any accountability or responsibility for what they do, Lavallie said.
“Restorative justice requires the person causing harm to say, ‘yeah, what I’m doing has caused harm. And I’m responsible for that. So I want to make it better’,” she said.
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