May is Sexual Violence Prevention Month! This month, Public Educator Cindy McMann sat down with Kate Crozier of Community Justice Initiatives (CJI), along with 2 guests with experience in restorative justice processes.
Kate and her guests take us through restorative justice alternatives to the criminal legal system, what the process is like for people who have experienced sexual harm and for people who have caused harm, how restorative justice can empower survivors of sexual violence, and what we can do to make this option more widely available to survivors.
Content Warning: sexual violence, sexual harm to minors, incarceration
Resources:
G-W Women in Crisis 24/7 Crisis Line: 519-836-5710 / 1-800-265-7233 (SAFE)
The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence. Judith Levine and Erica Meiners
Bernard Center for Women, “What is Accountability?”