Why Transformative Justice?

A pamphlet discussing the merits of transformative justice as an approach to crime, and the downfalls of retributive and restorative justice. The current system of retributive justice fractures families, communities and lives. Restorative justice reinforces structural inequalities. It aims to 'restore' conditions of communities and families after a crime, when it is often those conditions that facilitated or fuelled the crime in the first place. Transformative justice seeks to transform the conditions of injustice that underlie crime. The process engages the entire community in rooting out and addressing the social causes of crime.