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In countries where people access different justice providers, a hybrid model could pull them together and ensure better oversight and human rights.
Evidence shows restorative justice can help fix environmental crime – so why isn’t Australia using it more?
Sen. Martha McSally has broken gender barriers right and left. Despite the power she amassed over a career of firsts, she felt ‘powerless’ when raped. She’s not the only woman to feel that way.
In a pilot program, older prisoners sentenced to life mentor younger prisoners who have a chance to lead productive, lawful lives when they get out. The focus is on healing trauma.
The Catholic survivor movement in the United States was founded by two women: Jeanne Miller and Marilyn Steffel, in the late 1980s. It has taken close to 30 years for the Vatican to take action.
Although new evidence shows mixed results for “restorative justice” practices, that’s no reason for schools to stop looking for alternatives to school suspensions, a school safety scholar argues.
The ‘Monster of Worcester’ would have been released 24 years ago in Norway - would that have been better for everyone?
Restorative justice allows us to uphold justice while respecting the human rights of offenders.
Ex-offenders should be given a fair chance to redeem themselves after serving their time.
After colonisation, dispossession and decades of military violence, indigenous women in Guatemala are closing in on justice at last.
In historic cases the potential for a sentence to rehabilitate, incapacitate or deter the offender is largely insignificant – leaving the focus solely on retribution.
Restorative justice has worked for other offenders and their victims. New research has looked at whether it is suitable for organised crime.
What can Colombia can learn from other nations’ transitions, both successful and unsuccessful, from war to peace?
The rooibos industry has been accompanied by dispossession and adversity stretching back over centuries.
If violent contexts aren’t taken into account, restorative justice does not serve broader society. Instead it serves as a peacemaking process within a paradigm stacked against the poor and vulnerable.
The peace accords signed by the FARC and the Colombian govenment on September 26 are momentous, but they’re only the beginning of the path to peace.
MPs have proposed that restorative justice should eventually become a right in the UK.
The emergence of the restorative justice philosophy responds to the need to change South Africa’s retributive criminal justice system to accommodate African legal practices.
Imprisonment rates in Tasmania have steadily declined over the past decade – the only state or territory where this has happened. That is a result of progressive and effective corrections policies.
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