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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fundamental premise of restorative justice is so flawed and naive. The prevalence of psychopaths is only about 1% of the general population but when you're talking about those involved in the justice system, studies have it in a range from 15-25%.

So you are preaching lessons of empathy and remorse and forgiveness and then applying it to a population where a substantial proportion of your participants are actually neurologically incapable of this. Callousness and lack of remorse or empathy is literally the defining characteristic! Even worse, it is well known in the field that psychopaths are basically impervious to therapy and use these kind of conversations to lie and manipulate the therapists and the bleeding hearts around them and to fake guilt and remorse while they are secretly marveling at the idiocy of those around them who are falling for it, or learning new manipulation techniques for the next time. It plays right into their hands.

And then the proponent publish these dumb surveys and celebrate the "success" with no understanding that they're just the next in a long line of people the psychopath has manipulated for their own ends. I know they want to believe that these people can be fixed and develop empathy, but this has never happened in studis. Their brains are broken by a combination of genetics and environment. What IS successful in reducing their criminality is a consistent system of rewards and punishments so that they come to their own conclusion that law-breaking behavior is less useful to them than law-abiding. Because that is the only stick they measure anything by. That MCPS has tried to badly apply this whole misguided mess across the board is just making it all worse.[/quote]

Remember those running the Boards often have their kids in private and then are screaming equity in MCPS.  They should be required to have their kids in MCPS if they want to make decisions given they have no first hand experience.

RJ might work for minor issues but you'd need the child's parents involved and them actually parenting and giving consequences at home for the poor behavior.  Otherwise it victimizes the victim and gives the abuser a free pass.[/quote]

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