Indiana - Restorative Justice Services
“Restorative justice services” has the meaning set forth in IC 31-37-8.5-1.
Restorative Justice Laws Database
The National Center on Restorative Justice’s Restorative Justice Laws Database was created as a resource for restorative justice advocates, practitioners, and researchers as well as policy-makers across the United States. Our aim is to organize and display in an easily navigated format the ways in which states have codified the use of restorative justice approaches.
Thank you to Shannon Sliva (University of Denver) and Thalia González (UC Law San Francisco) for their advisement and expertise throughout the process of creating this database. Thank you to Karen Sheu and Anna VanRoy for their data collection work.
This Restorative Justice Laws Database builds on an earlier legislative directory created in 2014 by Shannon Sliva in partnership with Carolyn Lambert (Georgia State University College of Law) and hosted by the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work from 2019 to 2024.
The laws included in this database were identified by conducting a search in Westlaw and LexisNexis using the terms visible under “Form of Practice” in the database search options below. Only laws that feature one or more of these terms are included in the database. Use of the terms in the text of the law does not necessarily mean that restorative justice practice is occurring in the given jurisdiction.
The NCORJ is committed to continuing to update this database. If you see something that is missing or a correction is required, please be in touch. For more information about the development of the database, to get assistance navigating it, or to request a copy of the raw data for research purposes, please contact Lindsey Pointer (lpointer@vermontlaw.edu).
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Indiana - Community Corrections Program
As used in this chapter, “community corrections program” means a community based program that provides preventive services, services to criminal or juvenile offenders, services to persons charged with a crime or an act of delinquency, services to persons diverted from…
Hawaii - Performance Indicator Reporting
(a) The department of corrections and rehabilitation shall develop performance measures that accurately reflect progress toward specific goals, including: (1) Improving recidivism rates; (2) Decreasing prisoner assaults on correctional staff; (3) Reducing correctional staff turnover; and (4) Improving departmental efficiencies…
Illinois - Parties to a Restorative Justice Practice
(a) This Section1 is intended to encourage the use of restorative justice practices by providing a privilege for participation in such practices and ensuring that anything said or done during the practice, or in anticipation of or as a follow-up…
D.C. - Modification of an Imposed Term of Imprisonment for Violations of Law Committed Before 25
(i) Beginning in Fiscal Year 2022, the Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants shall, on an annual basis, issue a grant of $200,000 to an organization that provides advocacy, case, management, and legal services, for the purpose of developing…
D.C. - Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement Establishment
(a) There is established an Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (“ONSE”). The ONSE shall include the following programs: […] (4) The Restorative Justice Collaborative, which shall serve as a centralized hub to coordinate and foster restorative justice programming and…
D.C. - Duties of the Executive Director
(a) The duties of the Executive Director shall include: […] (3) Coordinating with District agencies to develop workforce development and restorative justice programming;
D.C. - Duties of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
(3) By October 1, 2017, the Attorney General shall develop a pilot program, in collaboration with community partners, to provide victim-offender mediation as an alternative to the prosecution of juveniles in cases deemed appropriate by the Attorney General; provided, that…
Delaware - Confidentiality
(a) All memoranda, work notes or products, case files or programs, and data collected under this chapter are confidential and privileged. This information is not subject to disclosure in any judicial or administrative proceeding. (b) Confidentiality under subsection (a) of…
Delaware - Program Funding, Operation, Supervision
(a) There is hereby established a Victim-Offender Alternative Case Resolution Committee to be composed of the Attorney General, Chief Defender, Chief Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Director of the Criminal Justice Council, and the Chief Judge of Family…