# Introduction

Welcome to this free course on formal court processes and social rupture and repair. This course will introduce you to alternative ways of thinking about social problems and the formal means that many western societies use to resolve them. The course explores ideas from the subject area of criminology and will contrast adversarial and problem-solving courts as a way to understand different alternatives to repairing social ruptures.

This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD315 Researching current issues in criminology.

OpenLearn - Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts
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