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When Should Law Forgive?

Martha Minow

The potential power of forgiveness in an age of resentment. Crimes and violations of the law require punishment, and our legal system is set up to punish, but what if the system was recalibrated to also weigh grounds for forgiveness? What if something like bankruptcy―a fresh start for debtors―were...

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Criminal

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Criminal

It explored the reasons behind why forgiveness is granted in certain legal cases but not others, also discussing the complexities of forgiveness itself and the societal factors that influence it.

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why a fresh start is permitted in some cases but not others. Why is it so hard to forgive?

— Episode: Learning How to Forgive

Episode: Learning How to Forgive

It explored the reasons behind why forgiveness is granted in certain legal cases but not others, also discussing the complexities of forgiveness itself and the societal factors that influence it.

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why a fresh start is permitted in some cases but not others. Why is it so hard to forgive?

forgiveness is that act of admitting that we're like other people.

letting go of justified resentment, that's what forgiveness is.

forgiveness has to be a choice.

we don't really teach people in law school about the tools of forgiveness that the legal system and those tools include pardon power that the executives have but also methods of exoneration and ways in which a criminal sentence can be commuted or the use of amnesties.

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