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When community pressure conflicts with personal harm

The teenager who burglarized our house is my neighbor's kid and now everyone expects me to be understanding because his dad left

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A victim struggles between social expectations of compassion and their legitimate need for justice

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“Where Are You with Restorative justice — theory and practice?”

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