Child Victims and Restorative Justice

Gal, Tali

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“…The criminal justice system is limited in achieving just outcomes for child and adolescent victims of interpersonal violence because of the attrition of cases moving through the system and the substantial amount of time it can take to reach disposition. Moreover, the criminal justice system is also limited in providing for certain victim needs identified by research: a need for participation in achieving justice, a need for emotional reparation, and a need to be treated as a respected party in the procedure of achieving justice (Gal 2011). In addition, some youth victims and their families oppose prosecution.…”

Section: Restorative Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Criminal Justice Response to Child and Youth Victimization

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Ernberg

Walsh

2020

Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan

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Children's and adolescents' risk of experiencing criminal interpersonal violence is disturbingly high, but most cases are neither reported to police nor prosecuted. Yet significant progress has been made in the criminal justice response to child and adolescent victimization. Hundreds of forensic interviewers are trained in interviewing protocols based on developmental research. Many police and prosecutors receive support from multidisciplinary teams. Through Children's Advocacy Centers in the USA, thousands of child victims have access to trained interviewers, medical help, family support, and evidence-based mental health services. Specialized methods have been developed for conducting child victimization investigations and gathering corroborative evidence. Factors such as child age, mental health, and family support affect whether abuse is prosecuted. Children's testifying in court can be very stressful and negative. Countries vary in requiring child victims to testify at trial. Children who testify may do well if they have the preparation and support they need, can testify in a timely way, and do not have to testify repeatedly. Cases are much more likely to be resolved by guilty pleas than convictions at trial. The alternative of restorative justice methods may increase victims' psychological experience of justice, but require managing the risk involved with contact with the perpetrator. Most of the attrition of child victim cases occurs at the "front end" of the criminal justice system, where lies the greatest potential for system improvement. In coming decades, professionals working with child victims should strive to disseminate promising methods and test them through research.

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Section: Restorative Justicementioning

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“…These limitations have led to the development of restorative justice methods as an alternative or a supplement to prosecution. Bolitho and Freeman (2016) and Gal (2011) profile a number of restorative justice programs for child victims from around the world.…”

Section: Restorative Justicementioning

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The Criminal Justice Response to Child and Youth Victimization

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Ernberg

Walsh

2020

Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan

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“…Not just adult voters but child stakeholders, child soldiers and child survivors can participate in broadened-deepened-lengthened transitional justice (Gal, 2011). We are not born democratic.…”

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Deeper, broader, longer transitional justice

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Braithwaite

2013

European Journal of Criminology

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Transitional justice has an expectation management problem. International law imposes a right to justice and an obligation to defeat impunity from crimes against humanity. Yet there has not been a war where a substantial proportion of criminals against humanity have been convicted. Nor is one likely. The theoretical solution considered in this paper is to broaden, deepen, and lengthen our conception of justice so that more survivors might be vindicated by some kind of justice, even if a partial kind of justice. We broaden justice with a more holistic, yet multidimensional conception of what justice means, so that, for example, restorative justice, Islamic justice and indigenous justice can be embraced among many alternatives to impunity. Deepening justice means deeper survivor and citizen opportunities to shape a more responsive justice and to shape remedies through participation. Lengthening justice means giving less priority to speedy trial and closure as transitional justice values. It might mean a permanent Truth and Reconciliation Commission that keeps its doors open to victims decades on.

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“…More controversial is the use of RJ with particularly complex crimes and vulnerable populations, for which some scholars call for the development of nuanced and well-prepared practices for cautiously selected cases. Controversy exists, for example, regarding the use of RJ in cases of intimate partner and gendered violence (Coker, 2006;Daly & Stubbs, 2006;Nancarrow, 2010;Stubbs, 2007) and child abuse (Cossins, 2008;Gal, 2011;Julich, 2006), and relating to the involvement of juvenile victims in general (Gal, 2011;Gal & Moyal, 2011).…”

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‘The conflict is ours’: community involvement in restorative justice

Gal

2016

Contemporary Justice Review

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Restorative justice (RJ) has attracted extended research relating to its potential to reduce crime, achieve fairness, and promote victims' well-being, but there is only limited discussion about the involvement of the community in RJ processes. This study employs grounded theory approach to analyze 26 documented files handled by a RJ program in Jerusalem, Israel. It proposes a multilayered construction of community involvement in RJ referring to four modes of community involvement: facilitators, community representatives, social networks, and the direct stakeholders. The analysis uncovers the unique characteristics of each entity, their potential contribution in promoting community interests, and the challenges in fulfilling their potential contribution. The Article further offers a responsive definition for community representation. Practical implications for RJ programs are discussed.

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Child Victims and Restorative Justice

Cited by 60 publications

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The Criminal Justice Response to Child and Youth Victimization

The Criminal Justice Response to Child and Youth Victimization

Deeper, broader, longer transitional justice

‘The conflict is ours’: community involvement in restorative justice

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