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

Freedom of the press and circulation was given to every reformative writing, to every project of innovation, to the most liberal ideas and to the boldest of systems.

From The Ancient Regime by Durand, John