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Now, human beings have been grappling with the notion of justice for millennia.

You may remember, or not, the Code of Hamarabi from history class, which served as the Babylonian

Code of Law for ancient Mesopotamia.

It established parameters around fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice.

Now, we may look back on this code as being unfair as it divided people into three classes who all received different treatment.

However, it did establish the core judicial tenet of an eye for an eye that was subsequently

echoed in the Hebrew Bible and codified in many codes of law. Essentially the principle that a person

who has injured another person is to be penalized to a similar degree, and the person

inflicting such punishment should be the injured party. Now, we have largely defined justice through

the lens of crime and punishment. Someone violates the law and then they're punished. Our justice

system focuses on the assailant, the one who has caused the harm. But what about the victim,

the one that endures the harm? How does justice address the victim? Are they to be healed only through revenge? Today on the show, you will hear

the courageous story of Marley Liss, who sought an alternative path for justice after she was

sexually assaulted, a path focused on

healing and transformation. This emerging approach known as restorative justice involves direct

communication between a victim and their assailant for the purposes of addressing the harm done,

making amends, and a reintegration of the parties into their communities.

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