Catch‐22: Exploring Victim Interests in a Specialist Family Violence Jurisdiction

Holder, Robyn

doi:10.1080/01924036.2008.9678789

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“…This echoes the experience of Project Restore, which undertakes restorative justice conferences in cases of sexual violence, that survivors are ‘not always seeking imprisonment as an outcome of reporting sexual abuse’, particularly those who have experienced abuse in a family setting (Jülich and Landon, 2017: 202). Similarly, Holder found that a ‘good outcome’ was ‘unlikely to include a punitive sentence’ (Holder, 2008: 276), with one of Clark’s participants stating that she ‘didn’t want the perpetrator to go to jail or anything like that’: what she wanted was ‘an acknowledgement or something ’ (Clark, 2015: 23). These perspectives chime with Nicola Lacey and Hanna Pickard’s suggestion that punishment be reconceived as a form of institutional forgiving involving the ‘imposition of consequences in response to responsibility for crime’: to ‘punish with forgiveness’ (Lacey and Pickard, 2015: 668, 678).…”

Section: The Emergence Of the ‘Kaleidoscopic Justice’ Lensmentioning

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Kaleidoscopic Justice: Sexual Violence and Victim-Survivors’ Perceptions of Justice

McGlynn

Westmarland

2018

Social & Legal Studies

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This article proposes a more multifaceted way of thinking about victim-survivors' perceptions of justice; what we have termed 'kaleidoscopic justice'. Developed from an empirical investigation with 20 victim-survivors of sexual violence, kaleidoscopic justice understands justice as a constantly shifting pattern; justice constantly refracted through new experiences or understandings; justice as an ever-evolving, nuanced and lived experience. Within this framework, a number of justice themes emerged, namely justice as consequences, recognition, dignity, voice, prevention and connectedness. This approach develops current understandings, in particular by emphasizing the fluidity of justice, as well as the centrality of prevention and connectedness in sexual violence survivors' understandings of justice. We suggest that it is only by better understanding victim-survivor perspectives on justice, and embedding the concept of kaleidoscopic justice, that we can begin to address the sexual violence 'justice gap'.

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Section: The Emergence Of the ‘Kaleidoscopic Justice’ Lensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Kaleidoscopic Justice: Sexual Violence and Victim-Survivors’ Perceptions of Justice

McGlynn

Westmarland

2018

Social & Legal Studies

110

111

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“…Empirical findings also support the normative justice motive, explaining the need for consideration. Victims want input in the process leading up to a decision, but do not want to bear the burden of the actual decision-making power (Holder, 2008;Wemmers, 1996;Wemmers and Cyr, 2004).…”

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Victim satisfaction with restorative justice

Camp

Wemmers

2013

International Review of Victimology

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Evaluative studies have demonstrated that victims of crime are satisfied with their participation in a restorative intervention. Meanwhile, the explanation of victim satisfaction with restorative practices remains to be established. In this article, we study factors contributing to victim satisfaction with the restorative approach and ask to what extent victim satisfaction is simply due to procedural justice. Procedural justice theory predicts that the perceived fairness of a conflict resolution procedure is not only explained by the favourability of its outcome, but also by the appreciation of procedural factors, such as trust, neutrality, respect and voice, and that procedures can be assessed irrespective of their outcome. We conducted semi-directive interviews with 34 victims of violent crime who participated in victimÀoffender mediation, family group conferencing or victimÀoffender encounters in Canada and Belgium. We found that appreciation of a restorative approach is related to it being perceived as procedurally just. However, it is also related to other factors, namely the restorative approach being flexible, providing care, centring on dialogue and permitting pro-social motives to be addressed. These factors are not accounted for by the procedural justice model. Therefore, procedural justice partially but not entirely explains victim satisfaction with restorative practices.

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A cross-national data collaboration of domestic violence specialist courts: a research note

Holder

2019

International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justi

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Catch‐22: Exploring Victim Interests in a Specialist Family Violence Jurisdiction

Cited by 7 publications

References 81 publications

Kaleidoscopic Justice: Sexual Violence and Victim-Survivors’ Perceptions of Justice

Kaleidoscopic Justice: Sexual Violence and Victim-Survivors’ Perceptions of Justice

Victim satisfaction with restorative justice

A cross-national data collaboration of domestic violence specialist courts: a research note

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