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Implementing Restorative Justice Programs In The Cal Poly Community, Bryce R. Fauble Iii
Implementing Restorative Justice Programs In The Cal Poly Community, Bryce R. Fauble Iii
Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies
This paper is the result of a year-long senior project for the Liberal Arts and Engineering program at California Polytechnic State University. This paper attempts to educate the reader on what Restorative Justice is, why it faces challenges in the United States, and how it has been implemented, both in the United States and outside of it. In addition, this paper describes my own experience with implementing Restorative Justice Programs with both the city of San Luis Obispo and California Polytechnic State University. This experience includes the challenges that I faced along the way, and how these challenges are indicative …
Safety First -In Search Of Justice -School & Law Enforcement Agency Partnerships, Michael Anthony Pickett
Safety First -In Search Of Justice -School & Law Enforcement Agency Partnerships, Michael Anthony Pickett
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
ABSTRACT
Educational problems are many and varied. At-risk students, achievement gaps and poor student outcomes are hot topics that beg for improvement in equity across the board and stand in the way of achieving excellence. These educative, albeit, social justice issues are not new, but rather, are old problems revisited (Kaestle, 1983; Morrison, 2003). Additionally, the issue of violence in schools is also recognized as not only a social justice problem but also a public health problem (Mercy & O'Carroll, 1988) and is perhaps the most pressing societal issue related to children and youth today. "Safe schools are the concern …