Doctoral Dissertation Research: Beyond the Law: Responding to Sexual Violence with Restorative Justice

博士论文研究：超越法律：以恢复性司法应对性暴力

• 批准号: 2017456
• 负责人: Akiko Takeyama
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2017456&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Beyond; Law

Restorative justice programs in the United States have seen success in cases involving juveniles and minor crimes. However, using restorative justice in the area of sexual violence remains contentious. Proponents highlight the problems survivors face in the criminal justice system, and claim that restorative justice is “survivor-friendly.” On the other hand, opponents raise concerns about further harm restorative justice causes to survivors due to the intimate nature of the crime. It is still largely unclear how alternative justice meets survivors’ needs and still enacts offender accountability. This research project will examine the lived experience of restorative justice to better understand to what extent restorative justice reproduces systematic harm in cases of sexual violence while challenging the existing criminal justice system. Critical analysis of what “survivor-friendly” justice means to different social actors such as survivors, offenders, restorative justice practitioners, and the society at large,is indispensable to the development of resources and policies that address survivors’ needs and best practices for restorative justice programs and the traditional criminal legal system. This project will be conducted at community-based restorative justice programs in the Pacific Region where several programs are operated in the United States. Restorative justice programs for sexual violence are mainly implemented at the community level, outside of the criminal legal system. This project asks: Do these restorative justice programs offer a more survivor-centered justice, or do they continue to mirror problems found within the criminal legal system? What does justice mean to the survivors of sexual violence? To examines these questions, this research employs qualitative methods including participant observation of individual restorative justice cases, and interviews and focus groups with survivors, offenders, and facilitators of restorative justice programs. Research findings will attend to the specificities of how survivors navigate their own experiences and frameworks of justice against societally held understandings of sexual violence and internal power dynamics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

美国恢复性司法计划在涉及少年和小犯罪的案件中取得了成功。但是，在性暴力领域使用恢复性司法仍然有争议。支持者强调了Surfevos在刑事司法系统中面临的问题，并声称恢复性司法“对幸存者友好”。另一方面，由于犯罪的亲密性质，期权引起了人们对进一步损害生存的进一步损害恢复性司法的担忧。尚不清楚替代司法如何满足生存的需求，并仍然构成罪犯的责任。该研究项目将研究恢复性司法的现场经验，以更好地了解恢复性司法在何种程度上重现性暴力案件的系统危害，同时挑战现有的刑事司法系统。对“幸存者友好”司法的批判性分析对不同的社会参与者（例如生存者，罪犯，恢复性司法实践者和整个社会）意味着什么，这对于满足生存的需求和最佳实践的资源和政策是必不可少的。该项目将在太平洋地区基于社区的恢复司法计划进行，该计划在美国开展了多个计划。关于性暴力的恢复性司法计划主要是在刑事法律制度之外的社区层面实施。该项目要求：这些恢复性司法计划是否提供了以幸存者为中心的正义，还是继续反映刑事法律制度中发现的问题？正义对性暴力的生存意味着什么？为了研究这些问题，这项研究员工的定性方法，包括参与者观察个人恢复性司法案件，以及与恢复性司法计划的生存，罪犯和促进者的访谈和焦点小组。研究发现将遵循冲浪者如何在社会上对性暴力和内部权力动态的理解来驾驶自己的经验和司法框架的规格。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准通过评估来评估的。