A Different Path to Justice
by Kris Riendeau
If you’re a fan of Law and Order, you might have some understanding of the machinations of the criminal justice system (albeit the U.S. version). If you’re not a big television watcher, you probably have a vague notion that if bad guys were to break into your home, steal your stuff and then get caught, they would eventually end up in court and ultimately be punished by society for their crime. But what about you? Would you go to bed at night feeling safe, secure in the knowledge that the offenders were remorsefully paying their debt to society and would emerge from the process reformed? If you doubt the power of our overworked courts to effect real change for either victims or offenders, and particularly for young offenders, you may be interested in what the Community Justice Program has to offer.
