Dr. Howard Zehr is
Professor of Restorative
Justice at Eastern
Mennonite University's
graduate Center for
Justice and Peacebuilding and is
the editor of The Little Books of
Justice and Peacemaking series.
March 10th, 2011 – by Howard Zehr (category: Restorative Justice)
Is restorative justice sufficiently transformative? Should the term be “transformative” rather than “restorative” justice? Are they different phenomena or are they one and the same? This debate has been ongoing since the origin of the field. When trying to decide on a term in the 1980s, I considered the word transformative but rejected it as [...]
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December 31st, 2009 – by Howard Zehr (category: Peacebuilding, Restorative Justice)
Philip Zimbardo’s 2007 book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, provides an in-depth description and evaluation of his 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. To study the dynamics of prison, this famous experiment randomly assigned college student to be guards or inmates in a mock prison. Within a very short time the project had [...]
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