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Restorative Community Policing in the UK: Dorset, Cheshire and Norfolk Constables Point the Way.

Wachtel, Joshua
June 4, 2015

Source: (2009) Restorative Practices E-Forum. May 6.

Police in roughly 50 percent of counties in England and Wales employ some form of restorative justice (RJ). Constables in districts including Dorset (southwest), Cheshire and Lancashire (northwest), Hull (northeast) and Norfolk (east) are actively making restorative practices (RP) their first line of defense — at officers’ discretion — for dealing with neighborhood disputes, first-time and low-level youth offenders, youth crime in schools, and some adult cases. (excerpt)

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