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 ...

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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 ...

Sixth grade teacher Vicki Rotker leads a “community circle” at Kingsview Middle School in Germantown, Maryland. The school is part of the Montgomery County district, which is introducing restorative ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Portland Public Schools has been prioritizing restorative justice as its approach to problem behavior, under a plan rolled out just before the COVID-19 pandemic forced school buildings to close during ...

In a recent community circle with my students, I discovered that the majority of them worked 40-plus hours per week over the break, and at least part time during school, to earn money for school ...

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 ...