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The Cost Of Incarceration, Part VIII

"Shadd Maruda, an American who is a professor at Queen’s University Belfast Law School, has watched “restorative justice” become a more accepted way of handling disputes, even criminal ones – in Northern Ireland – while in the U.S. the concept is not well-known. Instead of emphasizing punishment, Restorative Justice (RJ) emphasizes repairing the harm caused by crime. Victims, offenders and community members meet to decide how to do that. There are restorative programs in the U.S. but they are generally not for offenders who have committed serious crimes."

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