RT Article
T1 What Is Justice? Perspectives of Victims-Survivors of Gender-Based Violence
JF Violence against women
VO 31
IS 2
SP 570
OP 597
A1 Hester, Marianne 1955-
A2 Williamson, Emma
A2 Eisenstadt, Nathan
A2 Abrahams, Hilary
A2 Aghtaie, Nadia
A2 Bates, Lis
A2 Gangoli, Geetanjali
A2 Robinson, Amanda
A2 Walker, Sarah-Jane
A2 McCarthy, Elizabeth 1971-
A2 Matolcsi, Andrea
A2 Mulvihill, Natasha
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1915299624
AB 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.
K1 Inequalities
K1 victim-survivor perspectives
K1 justice systems
K1 gender-based violence
DO 10.1177/10778012231214772