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.

美国的恢复性司法计划在涉及青少年和轻微犯罪的案件中取得了成功。然而，在性暴力领域使用恢复性司法仍然存在争议。支持者强调了幸存者在刑事司法系统中面临的问题，并声称恢复性司法是“幸存者友好的”。另一方面，反对者担心由于犯罪的亲密性质，恢复性司法会对幸存者造成进一步伤害。目前仍不清楚替代司法如何满足幸存者的需求并仍然追究罪犯责任。该研究项目将研究恢复性司法的生活经验，以更好地了解恢复性司法在多大程度上在性暴力案件中再现系统性伤害，同时挑战现有的刑事司法系统。对“幸存者友好型”司法对幸存者、罪犯、恢复性司法从业者和整个社会等不同社会行为者意味着什么进行批判性分析，对于制定满足幸存者需求的资源和政策以及恢复性司法计划和传统刑事法律制度的最佳实践是必不可少的。该项目将在太平洋地区基于社区的恢复性司法项目中进行，该地区有几个项目在美国开展。针对性暴力的恢复性司法方案主要在刑事法律体系之外的社区一级实施。该项目提出的问题是：这些恢复性司法计划是否提供了更加以幸存者为中心的司法，或者它们是否继续反映刑事法律体系中发现的问题？正义对于性暴力幸存者意味着什么？为了研究这些问题，本研究采用了定性方法，包括对个别恢复性司法案件的参与观察，以及对幸存者、犯罪者和恢复性司法项目促进者的访谈和焦点小组。研究结果将关注幸存者如何应对自己的经历和正义框架，反对社会对性暴力和内部权力动态的理解的特殊性。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。