ABSTRACT
Restorative justice is a relatively new movement and one that is far broader in scope than other criminal justice movements. Unlike desert theory, for example, which is limited to sentencing theory, restorative justice addresses the entire response to crime, including its impact on victims and communities as well as offenders (Bazemore and Griffiths, 1997; Bazemore and Schiff, 1996). As a result of these factors, the restorative justice movement has not yet developed a consistent and well-defined vocabulary that would lend specificity and precision when discussing restorative values. Words such as "healing," "reparation," "fairness," and "satisfaction" are all commonly used in restorative literature, but most of these are ill-defined conceptually, especially in empirical research literature. This has made studying and measuring the impacts of restorative interventions difficult.
