Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-533548-4
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 634 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ptacek, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I. Overview: Restorative Justice and Feminist Activism

- 1.: Resisting Co-Optation: Three Feminist Challenges to Anti-Violence Work, James

- Ptacek

- Part II. Critical Perspectives on Restorative Justice in Cases of Violence

- Against Women

- 2.: The Role of Restorative Justice in the Battered Women's Movement, Loretta

- Frederick and Kristine C. Lizdas

- 3.: At Cross Roads or Cross Purposes?: Aboriginal Women and Political Pursuit in

- Canadian Sentencing Circles, Rashmi Goel

- 4.: A Community of One's Own?: When Women Speak to Power About Restorative

- Justice, Pamela Rubin

- 5.: Restorative Justice, Gendered Violence, and Indigenous Women, Julie Stubbs

- 6.: Restorative Justice for Domestic and Family Violence:Hopes and Fears of

- Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australian Women, Heather Nancarrow

- 7.: Restorative Justice and Youth Violence Toward Parents, Kathleen Daly and

- Heather Nancarrow

- Part III. From Critique to New Possibilities: Innovative Feminist Projects

- 8.: Opening Conversations Across Cultural, Gender, and Generational Divides:

- Family and Community Engagement to Stop Violence Against Women and Children,

- Joan Pennell and Mimi Kim

- 9.: Alternative Interventions to Intimate Violence: Defining Political and

- Pragmatic Challenges, Mimi Kim

- 10.: Restorative Justice for Acquaintance Rape and Misdemeanor Sex Crimes, Mary

- P. Koss

- 11.: Restorative Justice and Gendered Violence in New Zealand: A Glimmer of Hope,

- Shirley Jülich

- 12.: Beyond Restorative Justice: Radical Organizing Against Violence, Andrea

- Smith

Über Autor(innen)

James Ptacek has been working on the problem of men's violence against women for over twenty-five years. He has pursued this work in a variety of roles: as a batterers' counselor; a researcher; a teacher; and a trainer on institutional responses to domestic violence. His research has focused on how men who batter account for their violence; rape and battering on college campuses; and battered women's experiences seeking help from the courts. His current work addresses the class dimensions of intimate violence, and applications of restorative justice to violence against women and children.