What’s on the Restorative Justice poster
Retributive against Restorative, side by side.
- Retributive: The offence is against the state
- Retributive: Asks which law was broken, by whom
- Retributive: Outcome is a proportionate penalty
- Retributive: Victim is a witness to the case
- Retributive: Professionals hold the process
- Restorative: The offence is a harm to people
- Restorative: Asks who was harmed and what they need
- Restorative: Outcome is agreed repair
- Restorative: Victim participates directly
- Restorative: Braithwaite: shaming that reintegrates
- Trials generally report high victim satisfaction and small to modest effects on reoff…
Educational reference, not legal advice. Suitability varies by offence; there are serious concerns about pressure on victims.
Questions about the Restorative Justice poster
- What’s on the Restorative Justice poster?
- Retributive against Restorative, side by side. Retributive: The offence is against the state; Retributive: Asks which law was broken, by whom; Retributive: Outcome is a proportionate penalty; Retributive: Victim is a witness to the case; Retributive: Professionals hold the process; Restorative: The offence is a harm to people; Restorative: Asks who was harmed and what they need; Restorative: Outcome is agreed repair; Restorative: Victim participates directly; Restorative: Braithwaite: shaming that reintegrates; Trials generally report high victim satisfaction and small to modest effects on reoff…. Educational reference, not legal advice. Suitability varies by offence; there are serious concerns about pressure on victims.
- Who is the Restorative Justice poster for?
- Restorative Justice belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning crime & deviance can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Restorative Justice poster?
- When the question is what a response to harm is actually meant to achieve. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Restorative Justice belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Restorative Justice?
- Broken Windows, The Dark Figure of Crime and Defining Deviance sit alongside Restorative Justice in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Broken WindowsThe Dark Figure of CrimeDefining Deviance
- Is the Restorative Justice poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Restorative Justice downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Restorative Justice poster print at?
- Restorative Justice is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Restorative Justice loses nothing.Printing guide
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