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Restorative justice is an approach to justice that aims to repair the harm done to victims. [1] [2] In doing so, practitioners work to ensure that offenders take responsibility for their actions, to understand the harm they have caused, to give them an opportunity to redeem themselves, and to discourage them from causing further harm.
The goal of restorative programs is to keep students in school and to stop the flow of students from schools to the criminal justice system. [84] Some challenges to the use of restorative justice in schools are lack of time and community support. It requires balancing the time needed for mediation with the other demands of education in one ...
Reclaiming Futures has created a six-step model [1] for steering young people out of difficulties with addictive substances and crime. Key elements of the model include screening and assessing teens for drug and alcohol problems and assembling a team to develop a strength-based care plan; training drug and alcohol treatment providers in evidence-based practices shown to have worked with teens ...
She talks to them about their girlfriends, their children, their pets. ... Between 2020 and 2022, more than 200 people were admitted to the restorative justice programs in Cook County, more than ...
Restorative Practices teacher Andrew Lazzari writes down the name of a group's egg in a group activity Nov. 27 at Audubon High School, 3300 S. 39th St., Milwaukee.
Social justice educational leadership emphasizes the belief that all students can and will reach proficiency, without exceptions or excuses, and that schools ought to be organized to advance the equitable learning of all students. Rather than focusing on one group of students who traditionally struggle, or who traditionally succeed, social ...
These various fields employ different terms, all of which fall under the rubric of restorative practices: In the criminal justice field the phrase used is "restorative justice"; [11] in social work the term employed is "empowerment"; [12] in education, talk is of "positive discipline" [13] or "the responsive classroom"; [14] and in ...
Cook County will expand its restorative justice court program to the suburbs for the first time with a new court planned for the south suburban Sauk Village, Chief Judge Tim Evans announced Thursday.