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Rethinking Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration

Judah, Eleanor Hannon
June 4, 2015

Source: (2004) Introduction, in Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work 23(1/2): 1-6.

In this introduction to a special journal issue entitled, ‘Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration’, the guest editors present reasons to reform the criminal justice system, using restorative justice as a better way, ‘an idea whose time has come’.

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