My teenage son got caught vandalizing the school and they want him to do community service but he says it's stupid and won't actually help anyone so why should he pretend to care.
More people experience this than they realize.
The challenge of cultivating genuine accountability reveals how coerced repair often undermines the very empathy it seeks to develop.
“Where Are You with Punitive vs. restorative approaches to harm?”
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