RestoreJustice.com

Restorative justice is a response to crime and violence that shifts the focus from punishment to "responsibility, rehabilitation and restoration." It holds offenders accountable even as it opens paths to healing, especially with victims. And it addresses the needs of everyone impacted by crime: victims, offenders, families, communities, and those working in the criminal justice system.

In 2000, the U.S. Catholic Bishops published a pastoral letter entitled "Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice".

The California Catholic Bishops were very much involved in writing the U.S. pastoral letter. Later in 2003, through the California Catholic Conference, the Catholic Bishops conducted a symposium on criminal justice. They said, “We can change the face of criminal justice in California, but only if we do it together.”

Thus created this website to help implement the U.S. Bishops pastoral letter.