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2 results foundAuthor: Duncan, Jill Title: Addressing 'The Ultimate Insult': Responding to Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Summary: The paper is intended to inform and assist domestic/ family violence and sexual assault workers to understand this complex issue and to critically examine their practice in the work they undertake in supporting women affected by IPSV. However, we consider issues raised to also be relevant for policy makers, generalist counsellors and community sector professionals, including medical and health practitioners, who are working with women experiencing intimate partner violence, and facilitators of men’s behaviour change programs. This paper provides recommendations throughout that aim to clarify and build on existing knowledge and skills of practitioners. The recommendations comprise key messages drawn from the literature in the first half of the paper and suggestions arising from the worker practice forum and survey discussed in the second half. Details: Australian Domestic & Family Violence Clearinghouse, The University of New South Wales, 2011. 16p. Source: Stakeholder Paper 10: Internet Resource: Accessed October 7, 2012 at http://www.adfvc.unsw.edu.au/documents/Stakeholder_Paper_10.pdf Year: 2011 Country: Australia URL: http://www.adfvc.unsw.edu.au/documents/Stakeholder_Paper_10.pdf Shelf Number: 126570 Keywords: Battered WomenDomestic ViolenceFamily ViolenceIntimate Partner Violence (Australia)Sexual Violence (Australia)Victim Services (Australia) |
Author: Holder, Robyn Title: Satisfied? Exploring Victims' Justice Judgements Summary: Across common law countries, victims of crime and victim advocates have made trenchant and sustained critique of criminal justice systems. Running deep in the debate has been the claim that justice itself is absent. In response, legislators and administrators have initiated various reforms from services to 'rights' charters. In examining victims’ experiences with and assessments of reforms, both policy makers and researchers have tended to rely on 'satisfaction' as a measure. While useful for policy purposes, satisfaction may hide more than it reveals about the expectations and interests of people who are victims of crime. Instead, this chapter argues for closer engagement with ideas of justice. It does so through the narratives and survey responses of a group of men and women who became involved in the criminal justice system in a large regional city in Australia following an incident of violence against them. Interviews with people on three occasions identified a conception of justice that was a dynamic integration comprising substantive and procedural elements. Moreover, this conception drew on core values associated with the public role of the criminal justice system, especially those of fairness, equality and respect. Conceiving of victims as clients or consumers of justice 'services' through the lens of satisfaction fails to recognize the normative power of justice as an inclusive ideal as well as its political potency in communal governance. Details: Canberra: Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University, 2014. 33p. Source: Internet Resource: RegNet Research Paper No. 2014/28: Accessed February 18, 2015 at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2423140 Year: 2014 Country: Australia URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2423140 Shelf Number: 134639 Keywords: Victim Services (Australia)Victims of Crime |