You are doing justice restoratively when you ... 1. Focus on the harms of crime rather than the rules that have been broken, 2. Show equal concern and commitment to victims, offenders, and their families, involving all in the process of justice, 3. Work toward the restoration of victims and families, empowering them and responding to their needs as they see them, Restorative Principals 4. Support offenders while encouraging them to understand the harm they have done, accept and carry out their obligations, 5. Recognize that while obligations may be difficult for offenders, they should not be intended as harms and they must be achievable, 6. Provide opportunities for dialogue, direct or indirect, between victim and offender as appropriate, 7. Find meaningful ways to involve the community and to respond to the community bases of crime, 8. Encourage collaboration and reintegration rather than coercion and isolation, 9. Give attention to the unintended consequences of your actions and programs, and 10. Show respect to all parties - victims, offenders, family and community members, justice colleagues. Harry Mika & Howard Zehr, 1997
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