Full Description
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.
Contents
Foreword Introduction Part I Philosophy and Getting Started 1. A Restorative Justice Approach to Campus Sexual Misconduct. Restorative Guideposts and Insights from Early Adopters 2. Building Restorative Principles into Campus Policies 3. What About Due Process? Addressing Common Concerns and Questions about Using Restorative Justice in Cases of Campus Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct Part II Process and Intervention 4. Building Restorative Options 5. When Informal Is Formal. Procedural Documents, MOUs, Agreements, and Administrative Case Management Considerations 6. Specialized Interventions for Addressing Problematic Sexual Behavior Part III Facilitation Focus 7. Embodying a Restorative Approach. Attending to the Complexities of Restorative Justice for Campus Sexual Misconduct 8. Facilitating Repair and Restoration. Guiding Restorative Practices with Those Who've Experienced and Caused Sexual Harms 9. Healing through Supported Dialogue. A Reflection and Three Case Studies Part IV Reflections on Implementation 10. Adaptable Resolution. Where Justice and Healing Meet 11. Reflections on Starting a Restorative Justice Program 12. System-Aware Considerations for Restorative Responses to Campus Sexual Misconduct 13. Implementation of Institutionally Facilitated Restorative Justice Approaches to Campus Sexual Harm 14. Practitioner Reflection 15. Case Study. Restorative Justice for Campus Sexual Misconduct 16. Reflections on Piloting a Process 17. Observations and Reflections From a Restorative Justice Process Participant 18. Reflection - STARRSA AP Implementation Recommendations 19. Transformation 20. Practitioner Reflection on the Ripple Effects across Communities Appendix A Editors and Contributors Index
