Zehr, inspired by models such as these, offers six guiding questions for restorative justice work: 1. Who has been hurt? 2. What are their needs? 3. Whose obligations are these? 4. What are the causes? 5. Who has a stake in the situation? 6. What is the appropriate process to involve stakeholders in an effort to address causes and put things right?34 In contrast, he argues, criminal justice asks only three questions, of a very different nature: 1. What laws have been broken? 2. Who did it? 3. What do the offender(s) deserve?
