Ministry of Justice and KSD Nanum Foundation Promote Institutionalization of 'Restorative Justice'
[Asia Economy Reporter Baek Kyunghwan] The institutionalization of 'restorative justice,' which focuses on the reintegration of offenders and victims, is being promoted.
On the 31st, the Ministry of Justice announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Korea Securities Depository (KSD) Nanum Foundation to support the institutionalization of restorative justice for probationary youth.
Restorative justice refers to the entire process in which offenders, victims, and local communities actively participate in resolving incidents, repairing harm, and pursuing reintegration of the parties involved, unlike retributive justice that centers on punishing offenders.
The Ministry of Justice plans to expand restorative justice programs for probationary youth and establish a 'Task Force (TF) for Diversification of Protective Measures' within the ministry to review ways to institutionalize restorative justice. It also plans to open restorative justice courses at the Judicial Research and Training Institute to train professional instructors.
Since 2019, with continuous policy support from the Nanum Foundation, the Ministry of Justice has been training external restorative justice instructors for civilians, including staff and probation psychological counseling experts. This year, the restorative justice manual was enhanced and its application expanded to juvenile attendance orders. Juvenile attendance orders are a system that requires juveniles in need of protective measures to receive treatment and education for a certain period to improve criminal tendencies.
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Kang Hoseong, Director of the Crime Prevention Policy Bureau at the Ministry of Justice, stated, "The MOU has provided an opportunity for restorative justice to take root in the probation field, and through this, positive changes are expected in protecting victims' human rights and preventing recidivism."
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