Remaking justice after sexual violence

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What are effective responses to sexual violence? A global social movement is once again challenging sexual violence in all its settings: where we live, work, study, sleep, play, and pray. As more victims and survivors report to the police, speak out in street protests and online spaces, and disclose to psychologists, inquiries, and the media, they still face inept and insensitive criminal and civil justice systems. What is to be done?

Kathleen Daly, feminist criminologist and socio-legal justice researcher, has been writing on sexual violence and justice for over 30 years, and has studied the strengths and limits of conventional, restorative, and innovative justice. This anthology displays the evolution of her ideas from 1989 to 2021, with 11 previously published works and two new essays. Daly takes stock of current research on sexual violence and restorative justice, and considers promising ways to build knowledge. She calls for remaking justice by blending criminal justice with innovative justice, and by providing a menu of options for victims and admitted offenders within and outside conventional justice.

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