Police Policy in Implementing the Concept of Restorative Justice in Handling Minor Crimes

Abstract

The purpose of this research is toknowing and analyzing the existence of the Police in applying the concept of restorative justice to minor crimes. In this paper, the author uses a normative juridical method with a descriptive analysis research specification. When dealing with minor crimes, the application of repressive criminal sanctions often results in ongoing negative impacts, such as social stigma, waste of state resources, and injustice for perpetrators who should have the opportunity to change. The implications for correctional institutions if minor crimes are processed to the point of sentencing, which increases the capacity of correctional institutions which are currently plagued by quite serious problems in rehabilitating inmates who have exceeded the capacity of correctional institutions throughout Indonesia. In order to answer the development of legal needs of the community that fulfills the sense of justice for all parties, the Indonesian National Police (Polri) as the first door to the criminalization process for minor crimes can stop the process by being authorized by Law Number 2 of 2002 concerning the Indonesian National Police to formulate a new concept in criminal law enforcement.