Highlights•Restorative practices are increasingly implemented in schools internationally.•
Current focus on discipline and behavior outcomes, perceptions of implementation.•
Scholarship on social development can contribute to restorative justice.•Restoration may be
a prosocial outlet for youth “rebellion” against unjust systems.Adolescence has historically
been framed as a time of rebellion and protest, with traditional responses in school applying
punitive frameworks. In this article, we review recent psychological work on the restorative�…