ABSTRAKBanyak kasus-kasus sederhana yang berakhir di pengadilan dan diselesaikan dengan melanggar rasa keadilan masyarakat kecil. Sepertinya keadilan tidak pernah berpihak kepada mereka. Keadilan lebih banyak didekati dari perspektif prosedural bukan keadilan substansial. Sebagaimana ditunjukkan dalam putusan yang dianalisis di dalam artikel ini, penjatuhan putusan untuk kasus yang terbilang "sederhana" ini akan lebih tepat jika didasarkan pada filosofi pemidanaan keadilan restoratif. Penulis yakin bahwa pilihan keadilan restoratif ini sudah saatnya dipertimbangkan, dimulai dari kasus-kasus sederhana seperti ini.Kata kunci: masyarakat kelas bawah, keadilan restoratif, kasus pidana sederhana.ABSTRACTMany trivial cases have been sent to the courts so far with some of them ended with non-populist verdicts. Such court rulings have been disturbing the common sense showing that justice never takes the side of the poor. Justice is approached only from the procedural perspective. As shown in this article, one of the trivial cases was not handled in appropriate way since the restorative philosophy of punishment had never been considered to apply. The author of this article believes that it is time to start implementing such a philosophy of punishment beginning from trivial cases as in the case under discussion.Keywords: lower class society, restorative justice, trivial criminal case.
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