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- English
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About this book
A Restorative Approach to Family Violence looks back at an early and successful demonstration of a family and culturally based model to stop severe family violence. This conferencing model, called family group decision making, was applied by three diverse Canadian communitiesāInuit, rural, and urbanāto the benefit of child and adult family members. Narrative inquiry identifies how engaging the family and relatives resets the narrative from misrecognition to recognition of their competence and caring.
Family violence poses some of the most long-term and controversial questions in restorative justice. Should we use a restorative approach to stop gendered and intergenerational harm? Or will bringing together those who have been harmed, those causing harm, and their supporters only incite more violence? Underlying these questions is a profound distrust of families and their cultural networks. This distrust has stalled turning away from carceral interventions that particularly harm minoritized communities.
Moving forward in time, the volume identifies blocks to trusting families and their cultural networks and means of circumventing these blocks. The book offers a theory of feminist kin-making to comprehend the restorative process and gives practical guidance to restorative participants, practitioners, policy makers, and researchers.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Endorsements Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Foreword from Labrador
- Foreword from Newfoundland
- Preface
- Project Materials
- Abbreviations
- 1 A Restorative ApproachāNarrative Threads
- 2 FGDM ExampleāA Newfoundland Story
- 3 FGDM Project PlanningāLocal Organizing, Emergent Responsive Regulation
- 4 FGDM ConferencingāResetting Narrative, Revitalizing Culture
- 5 Concluding PossibilitiesāCascading Trust in Families and Cultural Networks
- Index