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 ...

Juvenile review boards have been operating in Connecticut for decades in an effort to keep youth out of the criminal justice system. In the last five years, the state legislature pushed the ...

MPS staff and researchers say restorative practices have improved school climate, even as the district restructures the work.

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 ...

Restorative justice is an approach to addressing wrongdoing that prioritises repair of harm, dialogue among stakeholders and reintegration of affected parties. Unlike traditional models centred on ...

When the student-government president here at City Springs Elementary/Middle School turned into the class clown last school year and began treating teachers disrespectfully, administrators had many ...

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Restorative practices promote the creation of spaces of trust and respect, with members of the campus community coming together for difficult conversations, deep listening, and restorative dialogue ...

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 ...

Check out our entire award-winning video series on reimagining the criminal legal system. What do successful alternatives to policing, prosecution, and prison actually look like? And how would they ...

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, ...