What Is Justice? Perspectives of Victims-Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

This article explores “how do victims-survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) experience and perceive justice?” based on interviews with 251 victims-survivors with experience of different types of GBV and criminal, civil, and family justice systems. Victims-survivors were found to have multiple per...

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Authors: Hester, Marianne 1955- (Author) ; Williamson, Emma (Author) ; Eisenstadt, Nathan (Author) ; Abrahams, Hilary (Author) ; Aghtaie, Nadia (Author) ; Bates, Lis (Author) ; Gangoli, Geetanjali (Author) ; Robinson, Amanda (Author) ; Walker, Sarah-Jane (Author) ; McCarthy, Elizabeth 1971- (Author) ; Matolcsi, Andrea (Author) ; Mulvihill, Natasha (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2025
In: Violence against women
Year: 2025, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 570-597
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Keywords:
Inequalities
victim-survivor perspectives
justice systems
gender-based violence
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Summary:This article explores “how do victims-survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) experience and perceive justice?” based on interviews with 251 victims-survivors with experience of different types of GBV and criminal, civil, and family justice systems. Victims-survivors were found to have multiple perceptions of justice, related to different points in their journey following abuse and regarding individual, community, and societal responses. Perceptions relate to accountability; fairness in outcome and process; protection from future harm; recognition; agency; empowerment; affective justice; reparation; and social transformation. Current understandings of justice in legislative and policy approaches reproduce the “justice gap” by failing to take account of how survivors themselves understand and demand justice.
ISSN:1552-8448
DOI:10.1177/10778012231214772