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Furness, Amanda Turning Toward Compassion: Restorative Justice works to develop youths' conscience New Orleans, LA: Turning Point Partners. Originally published in the Louisiana Weekly. Downloaded 12 January 2005.

It isn't enough just to boss them around. Parents, teachers and court authorities have found this statement to be true in their dealings with many of today's youth - often losing their children to the system after forced discipline fails to work. A method recently introduced in New Orleans called the "restorative justice" movement is hoping to revolutionize the relationships between youth and their communities by exhibiting the most basic human emotion. Love. (extract)

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