SENTENCING CIRCLES
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A sentencing circle is composed of a group of people whose significant role is to mediate or to stay in focus on giving the righteous judgment to both parties involved in whatever case tackled. Those who are part of the sentencing circle shall address shall address all the concerns of both sides. No one shall be on a biased side. Otherwise, justice will not be served.
Members of sentencing circles will have to listen to every angle of the structure involving the "victim" and the "suspect". On the victim side, there will be supporters, on the side of the offender/suspect has to side with them, which usually is the defendant has the right to defend himself too. The judge and the court personnel, the defence panel, investigators, police and all other interested parties within the circle can mediate before trial process. If there is a way that both sides will agree and prevent further disputes they can resolve it within the sentencing circle.
The most criminal court has forgotten the reconciliation of sentencing circle, a series of new crimes dominate practices known as community justice system revived to use of rehabilitation and attention to control certain minor offenses. Community justice serves as a simple come-back to reconcile ideal but approachable punishment to the crime that is thoroughly different from the traditional sentencing circle. The emphasis attacking the cause of the evil rehabilitates individual differences and reconciling would cause by the criminal rather than simply punishing the offender. Community justice flourishes even the dominant criminal justice system that faces the crisis of the judgment in which extraordinary number of Aboriginals.
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