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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...