A change has come to my classroom, and I didn’t even know it. While I’ve been busy teaching, California passed Senate Bill 274 expanding the prohibition of suspensions for low-level defiance behaviors ...

Justice often enters people’s lives after something fragile has already fallen apart. When I first sat with young men in Medellín and other cities in Colombia, trust was already worn down. Fear shaped ...

The following is a summary of a story on the Kenan Institute for Ethics website. Two recent Duke alumni, Jenna Smith and Will Lieber, say that a class in restorative justice offered through the Kenan ...

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 ...

Now we'd like to meet one of the country's newly minted geniuses. We're talking, of course, about the latest recipients of a MacArthur Fellowship. People often call them Genius Grants. The fellowship ...

Restorative justice promises healing over punishment by bringing victims and offenders together to talk things out. It’s a nice idea, and in some cases, it actually works. But most of its success in ...

Marlee Liss, a survivor advocate and founder of Survivors for Justice Reform, delivered a speech at Berkeley Law School ...

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 ...