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Restorative justice and violence against women /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ptacek, James
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Interpersonal violence.
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Table of Contents:
  • Resisting co-optation: three feminist challenges to antiviolence work / James Ptacek
  • The role of restorative justice in the battered women's movement / Loretta Frederick, Kristine C. Lizdas
  • Aboriginal women and political pursuit in Canadian sentencing circles: at cross roads or cross purposes? / Rashmi Goel
  • A community of one's own? When women speak to power about restorative justice / Pamela Rubin
  • Restorative justice, gendered violence, and indigenous women / Julie Stubbs
  • Restorative justice for domestic and family violence: hopes and fears of indigenous and non-indigenous Australian women / Heather Nancarrow
  • Restorative justice and youth violence toward parents / Kathleen Daly, Heather Nancarrow
  • Opening conversations across cultural, gender, and generational divides: family and community engagement to stop violence against women and children / Joan Pennell, Mimi Kim
  • Alternative interventions to intimate violence: defining political and pragmatic challenges / Mimi Kim
  • Restorative justice for acquaintance rape and misdemeanor sex crimes / Mary P. Koss
  • Restorative justice and gendered violence in New Zealand: a glimmer of hope / Shirley Julich
  • Beyond restorative justice: radical organizing against violence / Andrea Smith
  • Re-imagining justice for crimes of violence against women / James Ptacek.