Restorative or transformative justice?
Is restorative justice sufficiently transformative?聽 Should the term be 鈥渢ransformative鈥� rather than 鈥渞estorative鈥� justice?聽 Are they different phenomena or are they one and the same? This debate has been ongoing since the origin of the field.聽 When trying to decide on a term in the 1980s, I considered the word transformative but rejected it as....
Wrongdoing (and heroism) in context
Philip Zimbardo’s 2007 book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, provides an in-depth description and evaluation of his 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. To study the dynamics of prison, this famous experiment randomly assigned college student to be guards or inmates in a mock prison. Within a very short time the project had....