Moving from retribution to restoration
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by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI “…the Church proposes a form of justice that is humanising, genuinely reconciliatory, a justice that leads the wrongdoer, through an educative path of encouraged penance, to rehabilitation and total reinsertion in the community.” (Pope Francis) A Catholic approach to restorative justice “recognizes that the dignity of the […]