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Growing Efforts Are Looking At How — Or If — #MeToo Offenders Can Be Reformed

Two years into the #MeToo movement, as focus grows on when — and if — it's appropriate for men ousted for sexual harassment to return to work, attention is also shifting to underlying questions of rehabilitation. Can sexual harassers change? And if so, how? Zoë van Dijk for NPR hide caption

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Growing Efforts Are Looking At How — Or If — #MeToo Offenders Can Be Reformed

As a growing number of men brought down by the #MeToo movement attempt comebacks, a burgeoning industry of therapists, coaches and counselors is trying to help reform offenders.

Growing Efforts Are Looking At How — Or If — #MeToo Offenders Can Be Reformed

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After Assault, Woman Finds Hope And Career In Restorative Justice

Lorenn Walker, now a lawyer, was assaulted in 1976 in an alley near this hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii. Robyn Pfahl hide caption

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After Assault, Woman Finds Hope And Career In Restorative Justice

In 1976, Lorenn Walker was attacked in an alley in Waikiki, Hawaii. That trauma inspired Walker, then a high school dropout, to enroll in college, become a lawyer and work in violence prevention.

After Assault, Woman Finds Hope And Career In Restorative Justice

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