PARADIGMS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE RETRIBUTIVE JUSTlCE AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICS

Restorative justice is frequently portrayed as a new paradigm of
criminal Justice, which differs sharply from the dominant paradigm of
retributive Justice.
Retributive justice paradigm focuses on punishment and just desert.
In this paradigm crime defined as violation of the state.
Retrlbutivism is the view that; punishment is justified on the grounds that
wrongdoing merits punishment.
Restorative justice paradigm emphasizes on problem solving and restore
victim, offender and community. In this paradigm crime defined as violalion
of one person by another. "Restorative justice singnifies those measures that
are designed to give victims of crime an opportunity to tell the offender
about the impact of the offending on them and their families, and to
encourage offenders to accept-responsibility for, and to repair the harm they
caused. Its general aims are to reduce re-offending, to restore the Ielationship
between the victim and the offender that was disturbed by the offence, and to
improve victim's experiences With the criminal justice system.