Examining the Therapeutic Benefits of Restorative Justice for Homicide

What is it about?

This paper examines whether restorative justice meetings can help co-victims of homicide to recover from the individual, relational, and social traumas that they frequently experience. It uses detailed qualitative interviews with all stakeholders of a single case to explore the therapeutic benefits as well as unforeseen emotional complications of the process. The article concludes that in order to properly address the wider harms caused by homicide, justice agencies should seek to utilize trauma-informed restorative practices via a parallel system of justice.

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Why is it important?

It is the first study of its kind in the UK to empirically examine the benefits and limitations of implementing a restorative approach to addressing the consequences of homicide.