Hopkins C Quince, Koss Mary P
Washington and Lee University School of Law, USA.
Violence Against Women. 2005 May;11(5):693-723. doi: 10.1177/1077801205274570.
Sex offenses, particularly nonpenetration sex offenses and acquaintance sexual assault, are all too common. Because these crimes reinforce women's fear of crime and restrict spatial and social freedom, it is paramount for the justice system to act affirmatively; however, it does not. This article identifies several failures in the current response to these sex offenses. We describe the research demonstration project, RESTORE, operating in Pima County, Arizona, which uses a restorative justice response as a way of remedying some of those failures. Identifying central feminist insights that guided the development of that project, the article addresses concerns raised by feminists about the use of restorative justice for gendered violence. We conclude that most if not all of these concerns apply to cases of on going domestic violence--cases specifically excluded from the RESTORE program--rather than to cases of acquaintance sexual assault or nonpenetration sex offenses.
性犯罪，尤其是非侵入性性犯罪和熟人之间的性侵犯，极为常见。由于这些罪行加剧了女性对犯罪的恐惧，并限制了她们的空间和社会自由，司法系统积极行动至关重要；然而，实际并非如此。本文指出了当前对这些性犯罪应对措施中的若干不足之处。我们介绍了在亚利桑那州皮马县开展的研究示范项目RESTORE，该项目采用恢复性司法应对方式来弥补其中一些不足。本文确定了指导该项目开展的核心女性主义见解，并回应了女性主义者对将恢复性司法用于性别暴力问题所提出的关切。我们得出的结论是，这些关切中的大多数（即便不是全部）适用于持续存在的家庭暴力案件——RESTORE项目明确排除的案件——而非熟人之间的性侵犯或非侵入性性犯罪案件。
