scholarly journals Restorative Justice and Sexual Assault: Outcome Appraisal Through Textual Analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith V. Bletzer
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Textual Analysis

Feminist Response to Campus Sexual Assault in the Republican Era

2019 ◽  
pp. 171-201
Author(s):  
Donna Coker
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Campus Climate ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Campus Culture ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Low Income Students ◽  
Campus Sexual Assault

Feminists working to prevent and respond to campus sexual assault should encourage universities to adopt an intersectional public health approach that incorporates Restorative Justice. An intersectional framework responds to the ways that the general campus climate for students of color, LGBTQ students, foreign nationals, immigrants, and low-income students shapes experiences of sexual assault and help-seeking. An intersectional framework also addresses the risk that implicit bias will infect school investigations and hearings. Feminists should also encourage schools to reject “Crime Logic” thinking and the related belief that campus assaulters are irredeemable “predators.” The predator narrative is based in misapplied research and is contradicted by the results of more sophisticated longitudinal studies. Finally, feminists should encourage schools to adopt Restorative Justice (RJ) alternatives. An RJ approach supports victim healing and autonomy, encourages the student who caused harm to take responsibility for repairing the harm, and enables larger changes in campus culture.

scholarly journals Restorative Justice and Sexual Assault

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 334-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Daly
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Restorative Justice

From Parallel to Intersecting Narratives in Cases of Sexual Assault

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith V. Bletzer ◽  
Mary P. Koss
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Responsible Person

Restorative justice alternatives to criminal justice are designed to balance the needs of victims, offenders, families, friends, and the community at large to achieve social justice, repair of victims, and deterrence of crime. In the model we evaluated from RESTORE (Responsibility and Equity for Sexual Transgressions Offering a Restorative Experience), each offender and victim received individual services and met in guided conferencing to mutually determine reparative actions for the offender. At the exit meeting, the offender, as the responsible person, read a written apology to the survivor/victim. In this article, we analyze the expression of empathy in the apology, in which the initial mitigation of responsibility in early documents was replaced by acknowledgment of harm to the survivor/victim and acceptance of responsibility for the assault. Those accused of felony rape and those targeting a visible person in cases of misdemeanor indecent exposure expressed greater regret and remorse than offenders of indecent exposure with an indeterminate victim.

scholarly journals Crisis communication, sports and twitter : how Baylor University and its fans used tweets to communicate during the 2015-2017 sexual assault scandal

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Erin M. Fry
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Corrective Action ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Baylor University ◽  
The University ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Sports scandals are common, and "are almost as old as the sports themselves" (Lordan, 2014, p. 1). This thesis examined how Baylor University and its fans acted as crisis communicators on Twitter during the 2015-2017 football sexual assault scandal. Working from a grounded theory approach, the researcher conducted a constant comparative textual analysis of tweets sent out by fans and the university. Findings showed the three Baylor University accounts analyzed used the communication strategies of bolstering/reminder and corrective action most frequently but also used apology and diversion (Bruce and Tini, 2008). The analysis also revealed that while some fans supported the university, other fansturned against it. Fans used seven different crisis communication strategies during the scandal, including: scapegoat/shift the blame, diversion (Brown and Billings, 2013), attack the accuser, victimage, differentiation, bolstering/reminder and ingratiation. Unique to this study was how fans used diversion to draw attention to past scandals at Baylor.

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