我國少年事件運用修復式正義之研究

A Study on the Application of Restorative Justice in Juvenile Delinquency in Taiwan

修復式正義（Restorative Justice, RJ）是目前國際公認一種替代性的刑事司法方案，有助於應對刑事司法的不足及挑戰，我國雖已陸續於少年事件處理法、刑事訴訟法及監獄行刑法將「修復」入法，然修復式正義運用於國內少年事件並無相關實證研究報告。為瞭解少年表意權、少年最佳利益、當事人行為認知及療癒傷害與修復式正義實踐上之關係，本文將介紹少年事件運用修復式正義在國際間發展情形，同時以2018年5月至2020年1月期間，中華修復促進協會在臺北地方法院少年法庭進行修復式對話之個案為樣本，進行問卷及訪談資料分析，提出研究發現與反省，並芻議本土少年事件修復式對話注意事項，希冀對未來建構本土化少年修復式正義能起拋磚引玉之效。

Restorative Justice (RJ) is currently an internationally recognized alternative criminal justice program that helps address the shortcomings and challenges of criminal justice. Although Taiwan has successively adopted amendments to incorporate the restorative justice into the Juvenile Justice Act, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Prison Act, there is no relevant empirical research on the application of RJ to domestic juvenile incidents. This article will introduce the international development of juvenile RJ in order to understand the relationships between the practice of RJ and juvenile’s rights to be heard, juvenile’s best interest, behavioral cognition of the party concerned, and healing from damage. Meanwhile, this article will refer to the cases of the restorative dialogue in the Juvenile Court of Taipei District Courthouse from May 2018 to January 2020 carried out by the Chinese Association for Restorative Justice. Data analysis was performed based on the survey and interviews conducted with the hope of providing reflections and research findings as well as further suggestions to contribute to the construction of localized juvenile restoration justice in the future.