Howard Zehr
Howard J. Zehr is an American criminologist. Zehr is considered to be a pioneer of the modern concept of restorative justice.
The son of a Mennonite church leader in the midwest, Howard Zehr was born in Freeport, Illinois, and raised through his elementary years in two other Illinois municipalities, Peoria and Fisher. His family moved to Indiana for his middle and high school years. He studied at two Mennonite institutions, for a year each Goshen College in Indiana and Bethel College in Kansas before finishing his undergraduate degree in European history at Morehouse College, an allmale liberal arts college that is historically black, in Atlanta, Georgia. Zehr was the first white to earn a B.A. from Morehouse when he graduated in 1966. Thanks to the schools thenMorehouse College president Dr. Benjamin Mays, Zehr was able to complete his schooling through a minority scholarship that Mays assisted him in securing Zehr graduated second in his class.
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