reformative
Example Sentences
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“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
It is clear that a term of imprisonment will have no rehabilitative or reformative effect on Cox.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2013
To utterly disregard these qualities is to ignore the wide-open channels along which the most powerful reformative influences may be transmitted.
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
