Sexual violence and restorative justice : addressing the justice gap /
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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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: 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.