Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice

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ID20007698
AuthorsMarie Keenan (0000-0002-0150-7466, University College Dublin), Estelle Zinsstag (0000-0003-0955-8986, Lecturer in Criminology, Edinburgh Napier University)
Year2022
Publication date2022-11-18
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueSexual Violence and Restorative Justice (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198858638.001.0001
OpenAlexW4311467777
Open LibraryOL39560935M
ISBN9780198858638
LanguageEN
Citations received15

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. Concerned by the high attrition rates for sexual crime and the secondary victimisation reported in victim accounts, annual reports from court and prosecutor services, and the empirical literature, the book analyses the extent to which restorative justice can address the justice gap that exists in current justice provision. Building on clinical experience and earlier research on sexual crime the researchers engage with the complex dynamics and traumatic impact of sexual violence as a critical starting point for their research and examine whether restorative justice can be appropriate for this crime too. The book presents extensive new data on restorative justice as applied in sexual violence cases across the globe. It engages with feminist concerns regarding the traumatic impact of sexual violence and the potential for re-traumatisation; the power imbalances that characterise these offences and the potential for re-victimisation; the potential for coercion of the victim to participate in the process; the potential for manipulation of restorative justice by the offender; and the potential that restorative justice could lead to the reprivatisation of sexual crime and ultimately to its decriminalisation. Having examined these topics in detail the book concludes there is an important role for restorative justice as a victim centred service in addressing the justice gap that exists after sexual crime and offers guidance on how this can be achieved

Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Globe · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Restorative justice · Retributive justice · Sexual violence · Suicide prevention · Victimisation · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology

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