reformative

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Marketed as a boarding school that would help troubled teens, Ivy Ridge claimed to use therapy and recreational activities as reformative tactics.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2024

“Sheriffs will have no choice but to suspend all reformative programs due to this inherent coercion,” the association wrote in November.

From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2022

News to reflect on reformative trends and to prescribe solutions for the future.

From US News • Oct. 30, 2014

India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights described the proposed amendments as "retrograde in nature and against the principles of reformative and restorative justice".

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2014

The number of men who had been in the institution for a considerable period of time and upon whom the ordinary reformative measures exerted little influence rendered the adoption of some other means absolutely necessary.

From A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by Kayll, James Leslie Allan