On a winter Monday morning at Audubon High School in Milwaukee, three ninth-graders huddled and fussed over an egg named Billy Bob. Amber Sengsourisack used a marker to draw the egg’s anxious facial ...

Two recent Duke alumni, Jenna Smith and Will Lieber, say that a class in restorative justice offered through the Kenan ...

David Karp remembers a high school kid who walked into a martial arts studio, rifled through the jackets of the students, and stole someone’s wallet. He was arrested and put on probation, but there ...

Justice systems exist to respond to rule violations, yet violence does far more than break rules. It disrupts meaning, fractures identity, and weakens the sense of safety that allows individuals and ...

What is restorative justice?: How an inside-out class rewrote tragedy"Hamlet" has endured the ages, embodying timeless themes of the human condition. But what if its tragic ending — with every ...

An Oakland nonprofit that has long worked in county jails now has a space of its own in San Francisco. Community Works West, a restorative-justice organization that assists incarcerated children and ...

Chances are, when you and I were in school if we did something wrong like getting caught skipping class, we’d get detention or suspended. That’s the status quo for principal’s office discipline: You ...

A government bureaucrat boasted about implementing a program based on an "ancient indigenous practice" at the Washington, D.C. attorney general's office to allow some young criminals, who committed ...