When a crime occurs, it sets in motion potential tragic consequences that are often unseen by the American justice system. However, this "benign neglect" may lead to traumatic consequences for the ...
As young adults and college students, we make mistakes ranging from drug use to excessive drinking to harassment. Reducing the frequency of students’ mistakes is the priority of any university — and ...
Juvenile review boards have been operating in Connecticut for decades in an effort to keep youth out of the criminal justice system. In the last five years, the state legislature pushed the ...
LAC QUI PARLE VALLEY - Coming late to class, disrupting a class, or picking on a fellow student are the kinds of behaviors that will earn students in the Benson Schools a visit with Dean of Students ...
A Kalispell non-profit has expanded to all four Missoula high schools, looking at justice through a different lens.
When Zackary Moffitt arrived at the hospital on July 6, 2013, he had a potentially fatal level of alcohol in his system. The 33-year-old was four years sober when he met his wife, Cassandra Higgins, ...
Walton favors restorative justice, which gives more power to survivors in determining what happens to assailants. In this model, survivors decide whether they want to participate in a dialogue with ...
Wounds remain. This was a chief conclusion of an independent working group on the clerical sex abuse crisis in the U.S. Catholic Church that proposed the following measures last month: —Develop a ...
Domestic violence accounts for a huge portion of the violent crimes and homicides committed in the US. According to the US Department of Justice, around a fifth of non-fatal violent crimes between ...
In modern society, many of us are quick to judge and lay down the law when it comes to dealing with delinquent juveniles. For the longest time, the juvenile justice system has adopted the philosophy ...