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RJ focuses on the victim as the core element in the process, whether it is an individual, group of people or indeed the community as a whole.  Victims are not left outside of the process feeling little control – it places them at the centre.  It seeks to heal the responses and implications of crime and wrong-doing by meeting the needs of victims, offenders and communities.

So what do you think of postcolonial criticism, given that the Bible is the product of people living under different imperial regimes (Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek or Roman)?  Has Christendom, often alligned with imperialism and colonial expansion, missed the critique of Empire found in the Bible in the Exodus, the call to justice in the prophets, the message of the kingdom of God or the confession that Jesus (not Caesar) is Lord and Savior?