The study is to introduce school social welfare practices adopting restorative justice as an alternative paradigm toward school violence and to suggest their applicable tasks in the future. With an emphasis on literature research, it has surveyed restorative justice and school violence, problems facing school violence adolescents and difficulties of supporting systems for them. It has also examined about why restorative justice at schools should be employed and how it could be applied in a Korean society.
The research result shows that restorative justice approaches have already been widely used as an alternative toward school violence in other countries. The result also shows that restorative justice at school is useful for both repairing the harm on behalf of victims and reinforcing accountability and reintegrating into schools of offenders. Moreover, it helps reinforce community and recover relationships on the basis of respects and trust of victims and offenders built by mediation of family, friends, teachers, and school. And school welfare workers not only directly engaged in various programs.
Experts from various fields such as school welfare workers and school counselors provided diverse programs and services using a couple of restorative justice models at schools - mediation model, consultation model and circle model - targeting at from regular students to seriously harmed school violent victims, and also indirectly intervened by providing services, matches of resources and post management. To expand restorative justice at schools, it is identified that model development of school social welfare practices based on restorative justice in a Korean society, development of programs and training professionals, development of techniques, verification of effectiveness, and school welfare workers' positive intervention towards school violence are necessary.