Pennsylvania - School Resource Officers
(4) To train students in conflict resolution, restorative justice and crime awareness.
Restorative Justice Laws Database
The National Center on Restorative Justice’s Restorative Justice Laws Database was created as a resource for restorative justice advocates, practitioners, and researchers as well as policy-makers across the United States. Our aim is to organize and display in an easily navigated format the ways in which states have codified the use of restorative justice approaches.
Thank you to Shannon Sliva (University of Denver) and Thalia González (UC Law San Francisco) for their advisement and expertise throughout the process of creating this database. Thank you to Karen Sheu and Anna VanRoy for their data collection work.
This Restorative Justice Laws Database builds on an earlier legislative directory created in 2014 by Shannon Sliva in partnership with Carolyn Lambert (Georgia State University College of Law) and hosted by the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work from 2019 to 2024.
The laws included in this database were identified by conducting a search in Westlaw and LexisNexis using the terms visible under “Form of Practice” in the database search options below. Only laws that feature one or more of these terms are included in the database. Use of the terms in the text of the law does not necessarily mean that restorative justice practice is occurring in the given jurisdiction.
The NCORJ is committed to continuing to update this database. If you see something that is missing or a correction is required, please be in touch. For more information about the development of the database, to get assistance navigating it, or to request a copy of the raw data for research purposes, please contact Lindsey Pointer (lpointer@vermontlaw.edu).
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Pennsylvania - Use of Restraints on Juveniles
The use of any restraints, such as handcuffs, chains, shackles, irons, or straitjackets, is highly discouraged. The routine use of restraints on juveniles is a practice contrary to the philosophy of balanced and restorative justice and undermines the goals of…
Pennsylvania - School Diversion Programs
“School-based diversion programs” shall mean programs and interventions designed to redirect youth who commit minor offenses in school from exclusionary disciplinary practices or formal processing in the juvenile justice system, while still holding the student accountable for the student’s actions.…
New Jersey - School District Participation in RJ Pilot Program
A school district that wants to participate in the pilot program shall submit an application to the commissioner. The application shall identify one school within the school district to implement the restorative justice model under the pilot program. The application…
New Mexico - Law Enforcement Restorative Justice Practices
take appropriate measures to discipline a law enforcement officer, including facilitating mediation or other restorative justice measures, when it is determined that the law enforcement officer violated the provisions of Section 2 [29-21-2 NMSA 1978] of the Prohibition of Profiling…
New Mexico - Restorative Justice Funding
twenty-five thousand dollars ($ 25,000) to develop and implement a restorative justice program as an alternative method to deal with school-based offenses in the Santa Fe public school district;
New York - Service Providers in NYC
Service provider. The term “service provider” means any non-government organization, funded in whole or in part by the city, or any agency under the jurisdiction of the mayor, that provides social services to crime victims, including but not limited to…
New York - Training of Employees in Corrections on Restorative Justice: Changing Solitary Confinement
All special housing unit, keeplock unit and residential rehabilitation unit staff and their supervisors shall undergo a minimum of thirty-seven hours and thirty minutes of training prior to assignment to such unit, and twenty-one hours of additional training annually thereafter,…
New York - Funding for Restorative Justice in the State
For services and expenses of community safety and restorative justice programs, which include but are not limited to, support for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, gun violence prevention, legal services, alternatives to incarceration, community supervision and re-entry initiatives, gang…
New York - Diversity Advisory Group
Sixteen members appointed by the mayor, as follows: four members shall be teachers or principals employed by the department; two members shall be current students; five members shall be experts in the field of culturally responsive curriculum and pedagogy, restorative…