Restorative Responses to Sexual Violence - Legal, Social and Therapeutic Dimensions

Sexual violence, in all its forms, is a crime for which anecdotal accounts and scholarly reports suggest victims in their great majority do not receive adequate 'justice' or redress. The theory and practice of restorative justice is rapidly developing and offers some well-argued new avenues for dealings with crime in general. It has the potential to be extended to cases of sexual violence and a number of small scale programmes are already underway across the world.Restorative Responses to Sexual Violence examines this innovative justice paradigm in more depth in the particular context of sexual trauma and violence in order to establish the empirical realities of restorative justice approaches in cases of sexual violence, and considers how such approaches could be developed adequately in the future. This book is divided into two parts, each representing a key area of research and practice: theoretical and conceptual frameworks, and justice and therapeutic perspectives.This international collection brings together leading expert scholars and practitioners to offer both theoretical and practical perspectives on restorative justice and sexual violence. This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of law, criminology, psychology, social science, social work and psychotherapy, as well as practitioners in the fields of criminal justice, restorative justice and sex offender and victim trauma therapies.

Product details

• Authors: Marie Keenan, Estelle Zinsstag
• Assisted by: Marie Keenan (Editor), Keenan Marie (Editor), Estelle Zinsstag (Editor), Zinsstag Estelle (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2019
• EAN: 9780367226480
• ISBN: 978-0-367-22648-0
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Gender studies, gender groups, Violence in society, Social Law, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Sentencing & punishment, Criminal justice law, Criminology: legal aspects