Indigenous Judicial Approach: Restorative Justice Restorative justice is unlike the traditional western retributive model of justice. The retributive justice model focuses on punishment as means of deterring crime (White, 2014, p. 2). Whereas, the restorative model focuses on restoring relations and healing between the offender, community, and the victim (White, 2014, p. 2). The digital public service poster, above, is to provide information on restorative justice to the public. The poster highlights on facts about this justice model. The model stems from indigenous culture, which will be looked at in more depth. The history of restorative justice goes back to indigenous roots. Indigenous people are overrepresented in the Canadian corrections, and because of this there is a call to address this social issue (Department of Justice, 2017, para 16). The 30 th call to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission sets out to address the overrepresentation and increas
Overrepresentation and Risk factors Video File: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d6qrv3nKds The link above is a video of an indigenous person talking about their personal perspective on the justice system and the overrepresentation of indigenous people in the justice system. The individual discusses their personal experience in the justice system. The individual came from a life of poverty. His caregivers used to steal food to make sure their family could eat, and the speaker in the informative YouTube video stole clothing at the age of 12 and that is when he had his first interaction with the justice system. The goal of the video is to open discussion on the social issue of indigenous overrepresentation in the Canadian Criminal Justice System. Through the personal anecdote from the video uncovers many risk factors, such as trauma from residential schools and poverty. Risk factors will be later discussed and in more depth. Overrepresentation has been thought to be t