Restorative practices arose from the search for other ways than the judicial system to resolve problems caused by criminal acts. In a restorative view, crime can be seen as a conflict between people instead of an issue between the state and an offender. Traditional criminal justice models treat crime as a violation of the state whereas restorative models treat crime as a violation of one person by another person (Sarre, 1997). Or as McCold and Wachtel argue: “Restorative justice is the latest trend in criminal justice practice that contains the seeds of a radically different paradigm on crime and justice than the traditional deterrence or desert-based approaches” (McCold & Wachtel, 1998, p. 1)...