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

I have frequently heard it urged that these palliative measures tend to retard the great radical reformative movements, which are now taking hold of the public mind.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)