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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Autor principal: Hester, Marianne 1955- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Williamson, Emma ; Eisenstadt, Nathan ; Abrahams, Hilary ; Aghtaie, Nadia ; Bates, Lis ; Gangoli, Geetanjali ; Robinson, Amanda ; Walker, Sarah-Jane ; McCarthy, Elizabeth 1971- ; Matolcsi, Andrea ; Mulvihill, Natasha
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2025
En: Violence against women
Año: 2025, Volumen: 31, Número: 2, Páginas: 570-597
Acceso en línea: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Palabras clave:
Inequalities
victim-survivor perspectives
justice systems
gender-based violence
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Sumario: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