Gavrielides, T. (2017). “Structured & Unstructured Restorative Justice: The case of violence against women” in Halder, D. and Jaishankar, K. (Eds). Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Overcoming Violence Against Women, Pensilvania: IGI Global Publications.

Abstract

Violence against women (VAW) has slowly found its place in many international policies and conventions.
The objectives, enforceability and foci of these international initiatives vary depending on a number of
factors including political, sociological, economical and legal. However, they share one common feature.
They are all based on the legal positivistic understanding of delivering justice. This chapter accepts
this understanding and moves on to argue that what is also undeniable is that justice has a normative
concept that is universal truth. The chapter proceeds to illustrate that Restorative Justice (RJ) outside
the law has, is and will continue to manifest itself even for VAW cases. Ultimately, the chapter aims to
contribute to the book’s general objective of advancing the multi-dimensional growth of therapeutic
jurisprudence with a gender sensitive and gender focused approach.