Crime without punishment: can a different kind of justice offer something more to sexual assault survivors?

Proponents of restorative justice say it can offer a different type of justice, but is it a soft option for a serious crime? And what does justice mean for victim-survivors?

One evening in her parents’ home in New Zealand in 1993, Shirley Jülich told her father something she had kept secret from him for her whole life.

Jülich revealed to her father that she had been a victim of sexual assault by a man known to the family. Decades before. Her brother revealed the same. Their father, a police officer, did not waste any time.

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