While sexual misconduct on our college and university campuses, both
public and private, is dismayingly widespread, it continues to be
significantly underreported because most victims perceive that
judicial recourse, with its legalistic adversarial approach, fails to
address--in a healing way--the harms done to them. Fewer still file
formal complaints, many for fear that they may lose agency and that
the process may rekindle the trauma of their experience.Recognizing
the reality that supermajority of sexual harms in higher education are
rarely addressed through established legalistic practices, this book
offers a range of alternative approaches based on restorative
justice.Starting from the premise “What if we started with the goal
of healing in mind”, this book opens with an overview of common
restorative practices and accounts of application and lessons learned
by practitioners who have implemented a range of restorative justice
and alternative-based approaches. Subsequent chapters cover procedural
elements, recommendations around documentation. and interventions for
individuals who have caused harm through sexual and gender-based
misconduct.The book addresses facilitation; the need to pay attention
to self, people, and systems, identities, and power dynamics; the
considerations for working restoratively with both complainants and
respondents; offers cases and adaptable examples of resolution; and
concludes with reflections on institutional implementation from the
perspectives of administrators, facilitators, and a student survivor.
Recognizing there will always be a need for a formal investigatory
approach to cases of sexual misconduct, the book offers a wide range
of alternative options that empower those who are most directly
affected to make the call for themselves. In doing so, it may increase
reporting and, furthermore, in offering a healing justice that
addresses individual and community needs, may work to reduce sexual
misconduct on campus.
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A Guide to Emerging Practices
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000980059
Publisert
2023
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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