“Where do English and Welsh victim-survivors of sexual violence perceive they might gain kaleidoscopic justice?”

According to the first of today's Five Studies About+: Sexual Violence

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Two editions of Five Studies About are published each week: Five Studies About (free) and Five Studies About+ (paid, more in-depth). Each is a tip sheet where I curate recent crime and justice studies related to one topic. Today’s topic is sexual violence.

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These new crime studies related to sexual violence were recently published by journals I monitor. Each of the following study listings include two quotations from the study’s abstract. The first quote discusses what they set out to find and the second describes what they found. From time to time, I may add my own commentary.

1. Where do English and Welsh victim-survivors of sexual violence perceive they might gain kaleidoscopic justice? [International Review of Victimology]

What they sought: “The [holistic] framework, named ‘Kaleidoscopic Justice’, highlighted the importance of six components: consequences, recognition, dignity, voice, prevention, and connectedness. Now, we provide the first examination of whether victim-survivors perceive different support services and the criminal justice system (CJS) as achieving kaleidoscopic justice.”

What they found: “The findings demonstrate that kaleidoscopic justice measures are indeed a good proxy for satisfaction with the justice system. They also suggest that victim-survivors were more likely to view specialised support services as providing kaleidoscopic justice principles.”

What I say: While the abstract doesn’t provide a great deal of detail about what was found, you can read their findings in depth since this study is open access, meaning that you can read it in its entirety, for free.