Empowering Victims/Survivors or Restorative Washing? Institutional and Clerical Sexual Abuse of School Children and Restorative Justice.
While numerous studies exist on restorative justice, less is known about its use in cases of institutional sex abuse. Given a growing trend towards using restorative justice in such cases, this article addresses this gap in knowledge by analysing a case in Ireland involving historical clerical child...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Criminology Vol. 66; no. 3; pp. 554 - 571 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
May2026
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