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Part of a series on senior theses from the April 11, 2005, Princeton Weekly Bulletin. Working last summer in the public defender’s office in her hometown of Charleston, S.C., Spencer Compton was ...

Our diversifying high school in northern Colorado is navigating community fractures through the implementation of restorative practices, approaches aimed at building relationships and responding to ...

This article was produced in partnership with Foreign Policy in Focus. As a society, we fail to humanize perpetrators of violent crime. We fail to separate the person from the act. Both claims are ...

The recent incident in South Carolina, in which a resource officer grabbed and flung a student out of her chair after she refused to handover her cellphone, sent shock waves throughout the country and ...

Timote Vaka was running out of second chances. When he struck a member of a rival basketball team in October after he misinterpreted his opponent’s light shoulder bump for something more aggressive, ...

School officials more focused on “restorative justice” than school safety enabled the Stoneman Douglas High School shooter. That’s the finding of a new book by Andrew Pollack, the father of Meadow ...

Council embeds relational and restorative practices in schools that has helped reduce exclusions and is now training staff in other departments to use the approach. Gloucestershire's training model ...

Amid the death, sickness, mental health challenges, and economic upheaval wrought by the pandemic, another threat to public health has reached new heights. Intimate partner violence—which can include ...

You may have heard of restorative justice — a system of criminal justice that focuses on rehabilitating offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community at large — but what about ...