of these programs and to assess the capacity in which they will best fit into the current system across the U.S.. Neither restorative nor retributive justice on their own will adequately provide the structure needed to optimize the U.S. criminal justice system, but a combined symbiosis has the potential to address a greater majority of societal conflict. In order to achieve this, the narrative that these systems must be adversarial has to be eliminated along with the idea that civil punishment is a strong, American trait. Restorative justice has the potential to grow into a functioning relationship with retributive justice, bringing an aboriginal perspective back into the land of its origin.
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