Description

What are effective responses to sexual violence? A global social movement
is once again challenging sexual violence in all its settings: where we live,
work, study, sleep, play, and pray. As more victims and survivors report
to the police, speak out in street protests and online spaces, and disclose
to psychologists, inquiries, and the media, they face inept and insensitive
criminal and civil justice systems. What is to be done? This anthology
provides an answer.

Kathleen Daly has been writing on crime and justice for four decades,
joining empirical inquiry with feminist, critical race, criminological, and
socio-legal theories. This anthology of 11 previously published works
(1989 to 2020) and two new essays shows the evolution of her ideas on
the strengths and limits of conventional, restorative, and innovative justice
in response to sexual violence. Daly argues that 'what is to be done' is
to remake justice as if victims and survivors mattered. This entails blending
criminal justice with innovative justice mechanisms and providing a
menu of options for victims and admitted offenders within and outside
conventional justice.