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Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women (Hardcover)
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Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women (Hardcover)
Series: Interpersonal Violence
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Despite significant accomplishments over the past 35 years,
antiviolence activists know that justice for most abused women
remains elusive. Most victims do not call the police or seek help
from the courts, making it crucial to identify new ways for
survivors to find justice. This path-breaking book examines new
justice practices for victims that are being used in the United
States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These informal,
dialogue-based practices, referred to as "restorative justice,"
seek to decrease the role of the state in responding to crime, and
increase the involvement of communities in meeting the needs of
victims and offenders. Restorative justice is most commonly used to
address youth crimes and is generally not recommended or disallowed
for cases of rape, domestic violence, and child sexual abuse.
Nevertheless, restorative practices are beginning to be used to
address violent crime.
Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women considers both the
dangers and potential benefits of using restorative justice in
response to these crimes. The contributors include antiviolence
activists and scholars from the United States, Canada, Australia,
and New Zealand. Some are strongly in favor of using restorative
practices in these cases, some are strongly opposed, and many lie
somewhere in between. Their chapters introduce a range of
perspectives on alternative justice practices, offering rich
descriptions of new programs that combine restorative justice with
feminist antiviolence approaches.
Controversial and forward-thinking, this volume presents a
much-needed analysis of restorative justice practices in cases of
violence against women. Advocates, community activists, and
scholars will find the theoretical perspectives and vivid case
descriptions presented here to be invaluable tools for creating new
ways for abused women to find justice.
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