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I’d never though about this before-schools as havens of consistency during turbulent time.

It’s a view that will stick me.

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“Schools were one of the very few, if not the only, sources of consistency in a conflict environment. The staff and students always turned up, the bells rang at 9am, lunch was at 12, and we all went home at 3:15. Monday to Friday.”

We need a nuanced take - one that sees trauma *and* agency, data *and* context.

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Psychological positivism helped humanise justice systems.

But it also pathologised people, medicalised deviance, and sometimes ignored free will altogether.

Or take moral reasoning theory…

Yes, it’s true that some offenders score lower.

But interventions aimed at improving moral reasoning don’t always change behaviour.

(Thinking ≠ doing.)

Take **psychopathy**, for example.

Is it a diagnosis? A moral judgement? A prediction of future harm?

It’s used to justify longer sentences, often with *questionable accuracy* and serious bias.