Robyn Holder, <i>Just interests: Victims, citizens and the potential for justice</i>

Iliadis, Mary

doi:10.1177/0004865819865981

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“…A longitudinal prospective Australian study drew on these insights to explore the justice goals of adult victims of violence following the police charging of another person with a criminal offence against them (Holder 2018). This study confirmed that, similar to third-party evaluations, direct victims involved in a 'real' process seek multiple goals.…”

Section: Justice Goalsmentioning

confidence: 58%

“…We posit that one could be that the communication between the perpetrator and child or communication between the child and persons whom the child told about the abuse prior to telling police not only affirms the child's discomfort or feeling of being wronged but also help move them to think about what should next happen. As has been identified in studies with adult victims, social support for the victim comprises sharing recognition of the harm, but it also acts to shape the victim's views that what happened is wrong and that this wrong should be disclosed to authorities (Holder 2018;Jensen et al 2005;Vidmar and Miller 1980). Identifying what is a wrong is as much a social process as is fashioning a just response.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For adults, the motivations for reporting crime and violence to authorities range from desires for self-protection and the protection of others (Felson et al 2002;van Dijk et al 2008) to the social influence of family and friends (Greenberg and Ruback 1992). While motivations for reporting to authorities are not the same as the goals a person may seek, taken together, the research shows that, when seeking justice, adult victims think about objectives for themselves, for the violent person and for their community of others (Holder 2018). This range of adult concerns is reflected to some extent in research with children.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Claiming Justice: An Analysis of Child Sexual Abuse Complainants’ Justice Goals Reported during Investigative Interviews

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Gerryts

García

et al. 2023

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Investigative interviewing of children who report sexual victimisation focuses on helping children tell in their own words what happened. Children may say other things important to them such as their justice goals. We conducted the first research into this possibility in an exploratory analysis of 300 transcripts of actual interviews with child complainants aged 3 to 15 years. Building on an earlier study involving adults, we explored what goals children may articulate, when in the interview process their goals are relayed and in response to which interviewer prompts. Our analysis revealed that most children did articulate one or more justice goals during these interviews, especially their desire for acknowledgement of the victimisation and its wrongfulness. Children articulated their justice goals spontaneously and largely without any direct prompting by the police officer. These findings suggest that there is more that institutions [and researchers] can learn from carefully listening to children and understanding them as agents claiming justice.

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Section: Justice Goalsmentioning

confidence: 58%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%