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Chance to Apologize.

Anonymous
June 4, 2015

Source: (2001) Te Ara Whakatika: Newsletter of the court-referred restorative justice project. September 2001. Issue 4. Downloaded 8 June 2004.

An anecdote concerning a student who had been charged with careless driving causing injury. In a community-based restorative justice meeting, he apologised to the man whose leg was eventually amputated, giving him relief in the midst of shame.

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