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Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women in the United States: An Effort to Decrease the Victim-Offender Overlap and Increase Healing

Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women in the United States: An Effort to Decrease the Victim-Offender Overlap and Increase Healing

Lorenn Walker, Cheri Tarutani
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522524724|ISBN10: 152252472X|EISBN13: 9781522524731
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2472-4.ch005
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Walker, Lorenn, and Cheri Tarutani. "Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women in the United States: An Effort to Decrease the Victim-Offender Overlap and Increase Healing." Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Overcoming Violence Against Women, edited by Debarati Halder and K. Jaishankar, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 63-84. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2472-4.ch005

APA

Walker, L. & Tarutani, C. (2017). Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women in the United States: An Effort to Decrease the Victim-Offender Overlap and Increase Healing. In D. Halder & K. Jaishankar (Eds.), Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Overcoming Violence Against Women (pp. 63-84). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2472-4.ch005

Chicago

Walker, Lorenn, and Cheri Tarutani. "Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women in the United States: An Effort to Decrease the Victim-Offender Overlap and Increase Healing." In Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Overcoming Violence Against Women, edited by Debarati Halder and K. Jaishankar, 63-84. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2472-4.ch005

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Abstract

Opposition to using restorative justice to address violence against women mainly concerns the fear that women will be re-victimized if they engage with men who endangered them. While law enforcement and criminal justice approaches are necessary to address violence against women, women's choices about when and how to use law enforcement and prosecution to address violence against them, should be respected. Exclusive criminalization of violence against women has not protected many and has further harmed marginalized and Black people. To address intimate partner violence, victims' needs for healing must be met including when the victim-offender overlap applies and an offender is also a victim. Ignoring healing perpetuates violence. Applying restorative justice and its foundational questions, during direct meetings between victims and offenders, or when they meet separately, can address the victim-offender overlap, reduce reliance on punishment, and increase healing.

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