Restorative Justice
From the abstract: “As restorative justice offerings across the country expand, legislators and prosecutors continue to exclude crimes of violence, particularly domestic and intimate partner violence and sexual offenses, from their initiatives. These offenses have become the “third rails” of restorative justice. Yet it is precisely in these cases that conventional criminal system responses are…
School districts historically approached conflict-resolution from the perspective that suspending disruptive students was necessary to protect their classmates, even if this caused harm to perceived offenders. Restorative practices (RP) – focused on reparation and shared ownership of disciplinary justice – are designed to address undesirable behavior without imparting harm. This study looks at Chicago Public…
This article calls for the categorical exclusion of young children from juvenile court jurisdiction as a pathway toward the abolition of the juvenile legal system in its current form. This article highlights the landscape of age-based jurisdictional boundaries across the country: 24 states have no minimum age of arrest and prosecution, while 18 states have…
