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 ...

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 ...

Teens deserve an environment where they feel welcome and respected. Library staff members who work with teens believe this and want to help them succeed—in having their service needs met and in life.

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 ...

Durban — South African conservation NGO, the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), has introduced a novel project that seeks to test the use of restorative justice approaches to wildlife crimes – a first ...

Editor's note: A year ago, after the murder of George Floyd, the U.S. exploded with protests bringing attention to the scourge of police violence against African Americans. Initial calls to "defund ...

Amid the death, sickness, mental health challenges, and economic upheaval wrought by the pandemic, another threat to public health has reached new heights. Intimate partner violence—which can include ...

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 ...

You may have heard of restorative justice — a system of criminal justice that focuses on rehabilitating offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community at large — but what about ...

Timote Vaka was running out of second chances. When he struck a member of a rival basketball team in October after he misinterpreted his opponent’s light shoulder bump for something more aggressive, ...