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      What Is Justice? Perspectives of Victims-Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

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          This article explores “how do victims-survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) experience and perceive justice?” based on interviews with 251 victims-survivors with experience of different types of GBV and criminal, civil, and family justice systems. Victims-survivors were found to have multiple perceptions of justice, related to different points in their journey following abuse and regarding individual, community, and societal responses. Perceptions relate to accountability; fairness in outcome and process; protection from future harm; recognition; agency; empowerment; affective justice; reparation; and social transformation. Current understandings of justice in legislative and policy approaches reproduce the “justice gap” by failing to take account of how survivors themselves understand and demand justice.

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                Journal
                Violence Against Women
                Violence Against Women
                VAW
                spvaw
                Violence against Women
                SAGE Publications (Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA )
                1077-8012
                1552-8448
                19 November 2023
                February 2025
                : 31
                : 2
                : 570-597
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Centre for Gender and Violence Research, School for Policy Studies, Ringgold 1980, universityUniversity of Bristol; , Bristol, UK
                [2 ]Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute, Ringgold 2112, universityCardiff University; , Cardiff, UK
                [3 ]Ringgold 101845, universityWomen's Aid Federation England; , Bristol, UK
                Author notes
                [*]Marianne Hester, School for Policy Studies, 8 Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TZ, UK. Email: marianne.hester@ 123456bristol.ac.uk
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2241-651X
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3815-5430
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0066-8230
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3073-7957
                Article
                10.1177_10778012231214772
                10.1177/10778012231214772
                11702124
                37981791
                23f82125-a01f-4b29-b871-3e76ca22cc2d
                © The Author(s) 2023

                This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page ( https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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                Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council, FundRef https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000269;
                Award ID: ES/M010090/1
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                gender-based violence,justice systems,victim-survivor perspectives,inequalities

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