WITHDRAWN: New Directions for Research on Restorative Justice in Schools

• In Event: 31.059 - Classroom Management: Examining Behavior Management Practices/Systems and Their Effect on Student Behaviors

Abstract

Theorists propose that restorative justice implementation in schools may have effects on students’ socioemotional learning, moral development, relationships, and democratic engagement. However, empirical research on restorative justice implementation in American schools has primarily measured whether its implementation leads to reductions in schools’ use of or disproportionate application of exclusionary discipline. This narrow research focus aligns to schools’ growing interest in restorative justice as a response to findings that schools’ over-reliance on exclusionary discipline has harmful effects and has been applied disproportionately. A review of theory and anecdotal reports suggests several lines of educational research that may improve educators’ understanding of whether an in what contexts the proposed broader range of student outcomes may be impacted by restorative justice implementation.

Author

• Jean Sack, University of Illinois at Chicago