Full Description
This book explores the burgeoning interest in alternative and innovative justice responses to sexual violence both within and outside the legal system. It explores the limits of criminal law for achieving 'rape justice' and highlights possibilities for expanding how we think about justice in the aftermath of sexual violence.
Contents
1. Rape Justice: Recognition, Redistribution and Representation; Nicola Henry, Asher Flynn and Anastasia Powell 2. A Fair Way to Go: Justice for Victim/Survivors of Sexual Violence; Haley Clark 3. Sexual Violence and Justice: How and Why Context Matters; Kathleen Daly 4. Reassessing the Place of Criminal Law Reform in the Struggle Against Sexual Violence: A Critique of the Critique of Carceral Feminism; Lise Gotell 5. When Yes Actually Means Yes: Confusing Messages and Criminalising Consent; James Roffee 6. Sexual Violence and Innovative Responses to Justice: Interrupting the 'Recognisable' Narrative; Asher Flynn 7. Retribution, Reparation and the Harms of Rape: The Role of Tort Law; Nikki Godden 8. International Human Rights as a Mechanism of Justice: Rape Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights; Ivana Radacic 9. Reforms, Customs and Resilience: Justice for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Liberia; Niels Nagelhus Schia and Benjamin de Carvalho 10. The Pandemic of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Political Economy of Gender Inequality; Sara Davies and Jacqui True 11. Gender, Colonisation and Stolen Sisters: International Frames for Truth and Reconciliation?; Rosemary Nagy 12. The Law of the People: Civil Society Tribunals and Wartime Sexual Violence; Nicola Henry 13. Seeking Informal Justice Online: Vigilante Justice, Activism and Resisting a Rape Culture Online; Anastasia Powell
