If you are a person who has committed an offence, there are good reasons for you to take part in restorative justice (RJ). You can:

• feel better about yourself;
• explain your reasons for what happened;
• help the victim feel better;
• tell people how you feel about things now;
• take responsibility for your actions;
• give the victim and other people who were hurt by what happened a chance talk about it;
• help to work out how to make things better for you, the victim and the other
• people who were hurt by what happened; and
• make a new start and try not to offend again.