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Restorative or Retributive Justice? Transforming the US Criminal Justice System

Wray, Harmon
June 4, 2015

Source: (1999) New World Outlook 59 (6),

Building on what he sees as Jesus’ linking of spirituality and political action, Wray presents a restorative justice critique of a retributive criminal justice system in the U.S. Wray calls for many changes, including a halt to increased incarceration, intermediate sanctions in juvenile justice, victim-offender engagement, changes in sentencing, community policing, and an end to capital punishment.

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