In her newly published book, The Uninnocent: Notes on Violence and Mercy, VLS Adjunct Professor Katharine Blake explores the aftermath of a crime that changed her family, and career, forever. The crime? Her 16-year old cousin’s seemingly random murder of a nine-year old boy while suffering from a “psychotic break.”
March 18, 2021 Delinda Passas MARJ’20 was among the first cohort of online Master of Arts in Restorative Justice (MARJ) students in 2018 and continues to stay an active part […]
July 30, 2021 This poem was submitted by Emma Hirst MARJ’21 to a restorative justice art contest held by Amherst College in spring 2021. The rules of law and all […]
July 18, 2018
The Center for Justice Reform partnered with two forward-thinking Vermont prosecutors to help host two expungement days. Working in conjunction with prosecutors and Vermont Legal Aid, the Center and VLS student volunteers helped approximately citizens remove old marijuana convictions from their record.
Dr. Lindsey Pointer, assistant director of the National Center on Restorative Justice and an assistant professor at VLS, recently published her second book focusing on restorative justice practices. Published […]
February 18, 2021 By Kyla Schweber MARJ’21 Introduction Restorative justice differs from the traditional adversarial process, which tends to be a very cookie-cutter form of justice. In the current correctional […]
February 18, 2021 By Robert Sand Founding Director, Center for Justice Reform The New Year invites a time for family and reflection, sometimes even reflections on our own childhood. Thinking […]
January 14, 2021 While a growing number of Master of Arts in Restorative Justice (MARJ) students are now official graduates and have gone on to new jobs, experiences, and even […]
January 8, 2021 Karla Barron MARJ’21 Vermont Law School students Karla Barron MARJ’21 and Caleb Sabatka MARJ’21 recently combined forces to submit public comments to the Department of Labor opposing […]
November 16, 2020 By Karla Barron MARJ’21 Everyone is feeling something. The uplifted weight of the false and negative rhetoric that now lies in defeat. It is a sigh of […]
