Abstract
This Comment proposes that integrating restorative justice conferencing into Virginia’s foster care system can help break its foster-care-to-prison pipeline. Part I details Virginia’s foster care system and the foster-care-to-prison pipeline. Part II reviews and explains how restorative conferencing in Glenmona, Northern Ireland’s equivalent foster care system correlates strongly with decreased incarceration of foster children. Part III outlines how Virginia can implement the same restorative conferencing in its foster care system and pioneer a program that could affect its foster-care-to-prison pipeline.
Recommended Citation
Joanna R. Steele,
"In the Little World": Breaking Virginia's Foster-Care-to-Prison Pipeline Using Restorative Justice,
54
U. Rich. L. Rev.
313
(2019).
Available at:
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/lawreview/vol54/iss1/13
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