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This book examines the degree to which restorative justice can contribute to a more enhanced justice response than that currently offered by criminal legal approaches alone to victims, offenders, and their communities in cases of sexual crime.
Introduction: Exploring restorative justice in cases of sexual violence -- Origins -- Definitions and terms -- Towards a theoretical framework -- Methodology and data collection techniques -- The structure of the book -- 1. Understanding sexual violence: Victims, offenders, and society -- Introduction -- Sexual violence: prevalence, definitions, and dimensions of the problem -- Victims of sexual violence -- Perpetrators of sexual violence -- Explanatory theories of sexual violence -- Final remarks -- 2. Sexual violence, criminal legal frameworks, and the need for reform -- Introduction -- The legislative framework across jurisdictions -- Reporting and non-​reporting of sexual violence to judicial authorities -- Legal reform and the limits of legal reform -- More law reform and/​or restorative justice? -- Final remarks -- 3. International policy drivers and contexts: Restorative justice after sexual crime -- Introduction -- The 2012 EU Victims Directive 2012/​29/​EU (on restorative justice) -- Restorative justice and the Istanbul Convention -- Council of Europe Recommendation CM/​Rec (2018)8 concerning restorative justice in criminal matters -- The EU Milquet Report on Compensation, 2019 -- European Strategy on victims' rights 2020-​2025 -- The United Nations on restorative justice -- Final remarks -- 4. Restorative justice practice after sexual violence: Reviewing selected empirical research -- Introduction -- Restorative justice and sexual violence: criminal justice, methodologies, and criteria -- Consequences, effectiveness, and possible outcomes of restorative justice after sexual violence for victims and offenders -- Final remarks -- 5. Restorative justice after sexual violence: Mapping the international field of practice -- Introduction -- The research methodology -- Demographic survey findings -- Fully restorative justice interventions in cases of sexual violence: survey findings -- Alternative/​quasi restorative justice practices in cases of sexual violence: survey findings -- Final remarks -- 6. A thematic analysis of policies and practices in five European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Norway -- Introduction -- Country profiles -- Thematic analysis -- Final remarks -- 7. Past and current initiatives: Examples of programmes from six jurisdictions -- Introduction -- Suggnomè/​Moderator: mediation for redress -- AIM Project -- Brown University transformative justice initiative -- Triptiek -- Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) -- Healing circles: Green Bay correctional institute -- Final remarks -- 8. Four personal narratives of restorative justice practices following sexual violence -- Introduction -- Mediation in a rape case by the AIM project (United Kingdom): a practitioner's account -- Mediation in a case of historical clerical sexual abuse in the Netherlands -- Restorative justice in a case of childhood sexual abuse in Ireland: Lara's Story in her own words -- A meeting between a rape survivor and her offender in the framework of Gacaca in Rwanda: Mariserina's account -- Final remarks -- 9. Training and guidelines for restorative justice practice after sexual violence -- Introduction -- Current situation regarding training for restorative justice practitioners -- Making the case for additional specialised training for restorative justice practitioners after sexual violence -- Doing restorative justice in cases of sexual violence: some guidelines -- Final remarks -- Conclusion: and#x200B;addressing the justice gap: the potential of restorative justice after sexual violence -- Introduction -- Findings: asking and answering the right questions -- Addressing the feminist critique -- A maximalist consequentialist theory of restorative justice for sexual violence -- Restorative justice as moral repair -- Final remarks.
Marie Keenan and Estelle Zinsstag ; with the participation of Caroline O'Nolan [and nine others].
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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