The three main goals of restorative justice are accountability, community safety, and competency development.51 More specifically, these programs (1) provide opportunities for “wrongdoers to be accountable to those they harmed” and enable students to attempt to repair the harm they caused; (2) implement strategies to build relationships and empower the community to take responsibility for the safety and well-being of its members; and (3) offer opportunities to increase the “prosocial skills” of those
