@futurebird@sauropods.win maybe this is Wikipedia misrepresenting the idea, but it sounds like this puts a lot of additional burden on the victim? Like there's all these meetings with the victim and offender, on top of the trial that established the guilt of the offender in the first place. I had my wallet stolen once, and the majority of the harm to me was the time and stress it took to replace the IDs and cards. If on top of that I had to go to a bunch of meetings with the guy who stole it, that would be dramatically more time and stress for me? I would feel pressured to just say yes to whatever to get out of the meetings as soon as possible, effectively forfeiting justice at all. For violent crime, why should a victim be forced to spend more time and trauma interacting with the offender? This seems like it amplifies the harm to them in much the same way. If it's something the victim wants I guess that's another thing, but it seems kind of awful if it's your only option.