The aim of the course is to provide students with the historical-theoretical foundations and operational tools of restorative justice, an area that in the Italian legislation is experiencing a significant development that also involves the helping professions. The teaching aims to provide knowledge and skills capable of guiding professional action in the field of restorative justice and to enhance the importance of social work in it.

The course intends to enable students to achieve:
- knowledge and ability to understand such as to allow to frame restorative justice interventions from the perspective of social work
- an ability to apply knowledge and understanding such as to enable to operate profitably from a social work perspective in the design and implementation of restorative justice interventions
- an autonomy of judgment that allows to propose restorative justice interventions and to evaluate the appropriateness and social quality of the interventions carried out
- communication skills such as to allow the formulation of proposals or evaluations concerning restorative justice interventions with appropriate terminology and concepts
- learning skills such as to be able to carry out reflections on the subject of social work in restorative justice by drawing on the field of studies and sector research.