Source: (2013) in, Katherine S. van Wormer and Lorenn Walkers, eds, Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications. Los Angeles: Sage. PP. 225-232.
In this chapter, Rita Takahashi, professor of social work at San Francisco State University, provides an account of the belated decision by the U.S. government, after almost 50 years, to help compensate surviving Japanese Americans for the gross violation of their civil and human rights when they were restricted in movement and confined in concentration camps during World War II. (editor’s description)
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