Restorative Justice: Towards Incarceration Zero (Part I)
Ladies and Gentlemen, we now have restorative justice. What does that mean? Justice by individual agreements, seen from a case-to-case perspective. In practice (https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/can-forgiveness-play-a-role-in-criminal-justice.html?ref=magazine&_r=0&pagewanted=all): "Campbell had charged Conor with first-degree murder. which, as most people in Florida understand it,carries a mandatory life sentence or, potentially, the death penalty. He told the Grosmaires that he wouldn't seek capital punishment, because, as he told me later, "I didn't have aggravating circumstances like prior conviction, the victim being a child or the crime being particularly heinous and the like. As he always does with victims' families, he explained to the Grosmaires the details of the criminal-justice process, including the little-advertised fact that the state attorney has broad discretion to depart from the state's mandatory sentences. As the repr...