Victimology Basis of Restorative Justice.docVIP

Victimology Basis of Restorative Justice 　　Abstract Restorative justice has strong victimology base， which is shown in offender-victim interaction theory， physical compensation for victims， narrative theory for victims and prevention of evil inverter of victims. We need to explore various aspects of protecting rights and interest of victims in order to promote the development of restorative justice. 　　Key words： Restorative justice； Victim； Basis 　　Chen， H.， Wang， X. N. （2015）. Victimology Basis of Restorative Justice. Higher Education of Social Science， 8（5）， -0. Available from： URL： http：///index.php/hess/article/view/7007 　　DOI： http：///10.3968/7007 　　INTRODUCTION 　　In 1974， the first victim-offender reconciliation program was established in Kitchener， Ontario， Canada， marking the entrance of restorative justice into judicial practice. With progressing judicial practice， restorative justice spread to North America， Western Europe， Latin America and Asia， which fostered the popularity of restorative justice worldwide. 　　Restorative justice， by its name， is aimed at repairing the crime-damaged relationship by promoting victim-offender reconciliation through negotiations， focusing on protecting legitimate rights and interest of the victims and offering opportunities for criminals to integrate backinto the society. Restorative justice has the characteristics of full participation and negotiations， negotiated punishment and restorative purpose of punishment. This new judicial philosophy is different from traditional， retributive justice in the purpose of punishing and reshaping criminals； it gives more attention to the principal role of victims in solving crimes， which is in line with the trend of judicial civilization and has strong victimology basis. 　　Since 1920s when Israeli jurist Benjamin Mendelsohn studied victims in “On Personality of Victims”， victims have become a research field in law and criminology studies， and “victimology” has become a disc