We all want to know if a guilty party actually regrets what they’ve done, but how can we tell? Well, we sort of can’t.
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Even incomplete or insincere apologies have restorative value.
South Africans seem to be fascinated with the way in which spying is entwined in the country’s politics.
In many legal jurisdictions of the world, including Australia, an offender’s remorse is a mitigating factor at sentencing. And yet how judges evaluate such expressions is unclear.
Remorse is a vital, but often overlooked and underused aspect of justice, for both the victim and the offender.
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Professor in Community and Criminal Justice, De Montfort University
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Lecturer, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University
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Research assistant, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria., University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer, Edge Hill University