Exploring Transformative Justice Principles to Inform Survivor-Centered Design for Muslim Women in the United States

Rabaan, Hawra

doi:10.1145/3462204.3481797

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“…Restorative justice (RJ) is an approach to addressing crime by involving the affected community members in identifying and addressing harm and promoting healing collectively away from the CJS [70,117,118]. Transformative justice (TJ) attends to harm inflicted on community members while concurrently addressing broader systemic and social factors that enable harm to occur [15,26,31,39,43,87,93,110]. While RJ and TJ do not have singular agreed-upon definitions, both shift harm from the individual to the collective in responses and repair and are mainly distinct in their relationship with the criminal legal system.…”

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Survivor-Centered Transformative Justice: An Approach to Designing Alongside Domestic Violence Stakeholders in US Muslim Communities

Rabaan¹,

Dombrowski

2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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While domestic violence (DV) is prevalent in all socioeconomic settings, identity highly impacts how one experiences and recovers from abuse. This work examines US-based Muslim women's challenges when seeking help and healing from domestic violence. Through participatory interviews with 23 participants within the DV ecosystem, we find that victim-survivors' autonomy is compromised throughout the abuse, within their immediate communities, and when involving the criminal justice system. To address such harms, we adapt a survivor-centered transformative justice (SCTJ) approach, a framework to discern individual and systemic harm, to understand how to design alongside victim-survivors, and to focus on victim-survivors' autonomy. We explain under what conditions an SCTJ approach may be productive for designers. We use insights from our interviews to highlight intervention areas for reducing harm, repairing harm, and promoting healing for victim-survivors. Lastly, we offer guidelines to design for harm reduction, accountability, and systemic change.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI .

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