The Therapeutic Dimension of Transitional Justice

Emotional Repair and Victim Satisfaction in International Trials and Truth Commissions

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ID12822017
AuthorsJonathan Doak (Nottingham Trent University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume11
Issue2
Pages263-298
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Criminal Law Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1567-536X • E-ISSN: 1571-8123
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/157181211x559671
OpenAlexW2015650266
LanguageEN
Citations received22

This article examines the capacity of two major transitional justice mechanisms, international criminal trials and truth commissions, to provide a measure of emotional repair to the victims of some of humanity's most serious criminal acts. It is suggested that transitional justice processes often afford inadequate attention to the needs and rights of individual victims; but that four antecedents – account-making; truth-finding; justice and deliberative encounter may make some contribution to unlocking the therapeutic potential of these processes. While trials and truth commissions may both continue to play key roles in transitional settings, such processes should be conceived as individual elements of a more complex package of measures that should be put in place to propel peacemaking and healing at both individual and societal levels

Criminal justice · Criminology · Dimension (graph theory · Economic Justice · Human rights · Humanity · Political science · Restorative justice · Transitional justice · Cambodian History and Society · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Psychology

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