Across the world, only a tiny proportion of survivors/victims of sexual violence ever see their rapist punished. There is increasing awareness that the requirements of legal proceedings are often in conflict with the needs of sexual violence survivors/victims. Experiences of the adversarial court processes post-sexual violence are often traumatic, requiring the survivor/victim to confront their assailant, to defend their case and re-live the experience. Restorative justice aims to repair harm done to a survivor/victim of sexual violence, (and where appropriate to their families/communities) through offender acceptance of responsibility, reparations and rehabilitation, whether as a supplementary process, or an alternative, to conventional court proceedings. This section of the site provides you with resources and publications related to restorative justice and sexual violence.  Please assist us to keep this section of the site up-to-date.  Send additional relevant materials to svri@mrc.ac.za

• Restorative Justice Responses to Sexual Assault by Mary Koss and Mary Achilles, VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women 2008
  
• Handbook on restorative justice programmes. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Criminal Justice Handbook Series. United Nations. 2007
• The Basingstoke Domestic Violence Family Group Conference Project. Phase I (Pilot): January 2001 to December 2002. The Dove Project. Portsmouth, UK: Social Services Research and Information Unit, University of Portsmouth., 2005
• Resposta da Comunidade: Ampliação da Resposta da Justiça de uma Comunidade a Crimes Sexuais Pela Colaboração da Advocacia, da Promotoria, e da Saúde Pública: Apresentação do Programa RESTORE. Koss, M. P., Bachar, K. J., Hopkins, C. Q., & Carlson, C. In C. Slakmon, R. C. P. De Vitto & R. S. Gomes Pinto (Eds.), Justiça Restaurativa (pp. 349-384). Brasília - DF: Ministério da Justça e Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento - PNUD. 2005
• An Innovative Application of Restorative Justice to the Adjudication of Selected Sexual Offenses. Koss, M. P., Bachar, K. J., & Hopkins, C. Q. In H. Kury & J. Obergfell-Fuchs (Eds.)
• Giving Women their Voice: Domestic Violence and Restorative Justice in South Africa, Amanda Dissel & Kindiza Ngubeni, Paper presented at the XIth International Symposium on Victimology, Stellenbosch, July 2003
• Executive summary: Victim Offender Dialogue in crimes of severe violence: A multi-site study of programs in Texas and Ohio. Umbreit, M.S., Coates, R.B., Vos, B., & Brown, K. Minneapolis, MN: Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking, University of Minnesota School of Social Work. 2002
• Indigenous justice systems and tribal society. Melton, A. P. (n.d.).Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice.
• Taking victims and their advocates seriously: A listening project. Mika, H., Achilles, M., Halbert, E., Amstutz, L.S., & Zehr, H. (n.d.). Mennonite Central Committee.
• Disposition and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders from the Perspective of Restorative Justice. Koss, M. P., Bachar, K. J., & Hopkins, C. Q. In H. Barbaree (Ed). Handbook on the Treatment of Juvenile Sexual Offenders. in press.

• Restorative justice as social justice for victims of gendered violence: a standpoint feminist perspective. van Wormer K., Soc Work. Apr;54(2):107-16. 2009
• Restorative justice: a way to support the healing process of a child exposed to incest. Spies GM. Acta Criminol; 22(1): 25-36. 2009
• Restorative justice as social justice for victims of gendered violence: a standpoint feminist perspective. van Wormer K. Soc Work. Apr;54(2):107-16, 2009:
• Women's perceptions of the impact of a domestic violence treatment program for male perpetrators. - Hayward KS, Steiner S, Sproule K. J Forensic Nurs; 3(2): 77-83. 2007
  
• Restorative Justice and Sexual Assault: An Archival Study of Court and Conference Cases. Daly, Kathleen, British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 334-356, 2006
• Restorative justice in the twenty first century: A social movement full of opportunities and pitfalls. Umbreit, M.S., Vos, B., Coates, R.B., & Lightfoot, E. Marquette Law Review, 1/11/2006 (on-line), 253-304. 2006
• Stopping the violence: Canadian feminist debates on restorative justice and intimate violence. Cameron, A.. Theoretical Criminology, 10, 49-66. 2006
• How could you do this to me? Madsen, K.S. Restorative Justice Online. July 2006
• Managing risk: From regulation to the reintegration of sexual offenders. McAlinden, A.M. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 6, 197-218. 2006
• Incorporating Feminist Theory and Insights Into a Restorative Justice Response to Sex Offenses. Hopkins, C. Q., & Koss, M. P. Violence Against Women, 11(5), 693. 2005
• Planning and design in restorative justice: A first look at four Victims of Crime Impact Panels in the Midwest. Allen, J. American Association of Behavioral Social Science Online Journal, 2004
• Beyond Retribution and Impunity: Responding to War Crimes of Sexual Violence, Cahn, Naomi R. GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 104. 2004
• Expanding a Community’s Justice Response to Sex Crimes Through Advocacy, Prosecutorial, and Public Health Collaboration: Introducing the RESTORE Program. Koss, M. P., Bachar, K. J., Hopkins, C. Q., & Carlson, C. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 19(12), 1435-1463. 2004
• Restorative Justice for Sexual Violence: Repairing Victims, Building Community, and Holding Offenders Accountable. Koss, M. P., Bachar, K. J., & Hopkins, C. Q. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 989, 364-477. 2003
• Blame, Shame, and Community: Justice Responses to Violence Against Women. Koss, M.P. American Psychologist 55(11), 1332-1343. 2000

• International Criminal Court
• The Mennonite Central Committee of Canada
• The RESTORE Programme

• Restorative Justice Online
  
• Restorative Justice Online: Applying Restorative Justice to Domestic Violence: Web Resources