Restorative justice Archives - Pamela Cross https://pamelacross.ca/category/restorative-justice/ Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:59:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/pamelacross.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-11.27.08-AM.png?fit=32%2C30&ssl=1 Restorative justice Archives - Pamela Cross https://pamelacross.ca/category/restorative-justice/ 32 32 185852602 Why don’t women report? (Part two: a personal story) https://pamelacross.ca/why-dont-women-report-part-two-a-personal-story/ https://pamelacross.ca/why-dont-women-report-part-two-a-personal-story/#respond Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:56:31 +0000 https://pamelacross.ca/?p=5810 Like many women, I have my own stories of sexual violence. Below is a lightly edited excerpt from my book, And Sometimes They Kill You: Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence, that tells one such story, which I am Continue reading Why don’t women report? (Part two: a personal story)→

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]]> https://pamelacross.ca/why-dont-women-report-part-two-a-personal-story/feed/ 0 5810 Why don’t women report? (Part one) https://pamelacross.ca/why-dont-women-report-part-one/ https://pamelacross.ca/why-dont-women-report-part-one/#respond Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:31:00 +0000 https://pamelacross.ca/?p=5804 The recent sexual assault trial of five former Team Canada hockey players should put this question to rest forever. Anyone who has followed this trial and still wonders why fewer than 10% of sexual assault survivors report their assaults to Continue reading Why don’t women report? (Part one)→

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]]> https://pamelacross.ca/why-dont-women-report-part-one/feed/ 0 5804 Transforming law into justice: Part three of three https://pamelacross.ca/can-restorative-justice-work-in-cases-of-gbv/ https://pamelacross.ca/can-restorative-justice-work-in-cases-of-gbv/#respond Wed, 26 Jun 2024 13:36:00 +0000 https://pamelacross.ca/?p=5351 Those of us working in the field of gender-based violence have long seen the problems in the criminal law response to both intimate partner and sexual violence. Even those less intimately involved in this work saw firsthand the challenges in Continue reading Transforming law into justice: Part three of three→

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]]> https://pamelacross.ca/can-restorative-justice-work-in-cases-of-gbv/feed/ 0 5351 Transforming law into justice: Part two of three https://pamelacross.ca/how-can-we-make-sure-that-law-provides-justice-in-gbv-situations/ https://pamelacross.ca/how-can-we-make-sure-that-law-provides-justice-in-gbv-situations/#respond Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:08:00 +0000 https://pamelacross.ca/?p=5346 When, 30 or so years ago, I first heard about restorative justice as a possible way to deal with intimate partner violence, I was dubious. Like many of my colleagues, I was fighting for a more vigorous response by the Continue reading Transforming law into justice: Part two of three→

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