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Response to Adler School IPSSJ & Juvenile Justice Task Force Partners’ Report
By investing in the human capital of Cook County communities, we can indeed transform the cycles of fear, oppression, and trauma that have fueled the youth violence epidemic in the Chicago area. In...
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TEDxVancouver Talk on Restorative Justice from Alumna Natalie DeFreitas...
How effective is our system of justice if 70 percent of people are reoffending after jail? It’s one of the questions that Adler School alum Natalie DeFreitas, M.A., RCC, raised–and addressed–this fall...
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On the declining U.S. prison population: What’s going on?
Here at the Adler School, we talk quite a bit about how the United States leads the world in incarcerating its population. We talk about the broken policies and practices that perpetuate what we call...
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A formula for community safety–and new reports on community justice,...
r + o (hp2) = cs. Resources plus opportunity, multiplied by human potential multiplied by itself. The result is community safety. The Adler School Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice...
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‘After Newtown’: Dissecting a Nation’s Fascination with Firearms
PBS is receiving wide attention this week for its “After Newtown” programming intended to continue the national conversation on guns, violence, safety and mental health in America. The hour-long...
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Restorative Justice at Work: Reducing Violence at Chicago’s Fenger High School
“The Fenger case shows that restorative justice practices can be real, tangible vehicles for making city schools better by offering a pathway to peace for students willing to learn. It’s our job to...
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