“Accountability is not just about being or feeling sorry— it is about a set of actions that demonstrate remorse in practice. And it is not the feeling of remorse that delivers us from our shame— it is the practice of accountability in action. It is doing sorry.” JusticeAccountabilityRemorse Book:Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair Source: Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
“Forms of punishment that do not include the human reckoning of accountability and the human grappling of remorse rely exclusively on extrinsic motivation— a threat from outside. One of the effects of accountability is to help foster people’s intrinsic motivation, which manifests in part as remorse.” JusticeViolenceIncarcerationRecidivism Book:Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair Source: Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair