Pendekatan Restorative Justice Sebagai Upaya Penyelesaian Tindak Pidana Pencurian Ringan (Studi Kasus Polres Sukoharjo)

Minor theft is included in the type of minor crime. In handling minor crimes, a restorative justice approach is used. Restorative justice is the concept of resolving criminal acts by prioritizing the restoration of the rights of victims of criminal acts. This study aims to determine the police's considerations in using restorative justice as an effort to resolve minor theft crimes, how to implement the settlement of minor theft crimes using a restorative justice approach, and how to resolve cases of minor theft crimes according to Islamic criminal law. The method used in this study is an empirical juridical approach because this study looks at how the law applies in social life. This research is descriptive because this research describes the settlement of minor theft cases with restorative justice. The results of this study indicate that the Sukoharjo Police in resolving cases of minor crimes using a restorative justice approach are in accordance with the applicable regulations, in this case the Indonesian National Police Regulation Number 8 of 2021, both in terms of considerations, and in terms of the settlement mechanism. Meanwhile, the settlement of cases of theft according to Islamic criminal law has been regulated in the Qur'an and Hadith, namely in the form of cutting hands