restorative justice

responsibility

State of being answerable

• amendsCompensation for wrongdoing
• reparationCompensation for injury done
• acknowledgmentConfirmation of receipt

admission · ownership · redress · rectification · confession · culpability · reform · answerable · obligation · taking responsibility

conferencing

Multi-party remote communication

• healing circlesCommunal emotional recovery sessions
• talking circlesRepetitive, pointless speech

face-to-face meeting

forgiveness

Releasing resentment toward offenders

• understandingMental comprehension of something
• apologyStatement acknowledging wrongdoing
• empathySharing another's emotions

compassion · trust-building · reintegration · acceptance · dialogue · rebuilding · remorse · contrition · making peace · humanization

trauma recovery

Regaining stability after damage

• closureSense of emotional resolution
• wholenessComplete, undivided state
• repairRestore to working order

renewal · survivor support · storytelling · bearing witness · validation · processing · moving forward · transformation · safety

ubuntu

Shared humanity ethic

• decarcerationReducing imprisonment rates
• abolitionistOpponent of human bondage

community involvement

Active participation in local affairs

• stakeholdersThose with investment in outcome
• social bondsConnections uniting group members
• community supportCollective assistance from neighbors

shared responsibility · belonging · civic participation · grassroots · collective responsibility · social fabric · community-based

• criminal justicearrest, jail, court, prison, crime
• justicecourtroom, trials, courts, gavel, judges
• peacemakingnegotiation, mediation, peace agreement, mediate, pacifying
• reconciliationreconciliation, reconcile, reconciled, reconciling, making up
• criminal lawcrime, felony, misdemeanor, murder, robbery
• penologypenology, prisons, incarceration, parole board, prison