2. Restorative Justice Principles:
LHS is committed to resolving incidents of harm to individuals and property in a:
Respectful
Safe
Restorative Manner

3. Retributive vs. Restorative
Offenses are committed against authorities
Violate rules of law or policies
Offender is accountable to authorities (police, school officials)
Offenses are acts committed against victims
Violate people and community trust
Offender is accountable to the victim and community

4. Retributive vs. Restorative
Accountability equals suffering
Victims not main focus
Offenders are defined by misbehavior or offense
Accountability is taking responsibility for behaviors and repairing the harm
Victims/community play a key role
Offenders defined by taking responsibility and changing behavior.

5. Retributive vs. Restorative
Offenses are result of individual choice with individual responsibility
Offenses have individual and social aspects and are results of individual choice and conditions that lead to the behavior

6. Restorative Justice Focuses on:
Putting things right when they have gone wrong
Meaningful accountability
Engaging morals and values because they are more powerful for influencing behaviors than laws and rules

7. Restorative Justice Focuses on:
Recognizing that morals and values depend on relationships of caring and that communities and families have more power than courts do
Restoring a proper balance of power and engaging healthy personal power for those harmed (victims), those causing harm(offenders), and those impacted by the harm.

8. Accountability For Everyone Means:
Recognizing/acknowledging that your behavior caused the harm
Understanding from the person harmed exactly what the harm was
Acknowledging that you had a choice in causing that harm
Taking steps to repair the harm
Taking steps to prevent the harm from happening again

9. LHS partners with the Dane CountyTimeBank
Both groups work together to coordinate the Youth Court/Restorative Justice Panels

10. The Dane CountyTimeBank Youth Court is:
Trained jury of the student’s peers that:
Review information about the incident
Question the student involved in the incident and their parents/guardians
Determine an appropriate sentence

11. TimeBank Members: Serve as jurors Staff the Youth Court
Teach Life Skills classes
Mentor youth as they complete sentences

12. Youth are encouraged to continue to participate and use theTimeBank support available to them.
Serve as jurors
Continue to attend classes and clubs
Utilize the service offered through theTimeBank

13. How Can You Get Involved?
Mentor a respondent or juror
Teach a class
Provide a service opportunity
Help staff the court
Tutor jurors or respondents
Join the TimeBank and share your skills and talents with the youth or those who support them
Please contact TimeBank at (608) or

14. Restores the wellbeing of all those involved in the incident
Focuses on prevention