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The Legalization Of Restorative Justice: A Fifty-State Empirical Analysis, Thalia González
The Legalization Of Restorative Justice: A Fifty-State Empirical Analysis, Thalia González
Utah Law Review
This Article addresses the increasing formal legal nature of restorative justice in the United States. Over the last three decades, a substantial body of research has demonstrated the ways in which restorative justice offers an alternative societal response to crime and harm. It has also examined how restorative justice empowers individuals and groups to address violence, respond to social, political and economic injustice, and engage in resistance to existing structural inequities. Yet a prominent gap in the field exists: a comprehensive theoretical and empirical examination of the codification of restorative justice in state law. Studies of this nature are essential …