Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices: What I learned After Incarceration

Restorative Justice, much like its retributive relative–criminal justice– represents a conflict resolution ideal.  Punishment has proven to be a viable method of social control. It has not, however, proven to be a system that leads to safety. Despite its shortfalls, state sanctioned violence does seem to deter personal vendettas between people of European descent. It does not resonate as well with people from non-European cultures, hence the cycles of interpersonal violence in culturally specific contexts.

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