J. Scott Kenney's research while affiliated with Memorial University of Newfoundland and other places
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Publications (3)
In this paper, we outline a model of emotional and physical pain that is misunderstood, neglected or stigmatized, conceptualized along dimensions of relative legitimation and physicality. Drawing upon extensive qualitative data from former residents, staff, and faculty of a controversial religious boarding school, we analyze institutional practices...
Prevailing explanations of the increase in collective action surrounding victims' rights in early 1980s Canada generally follow the precepts of political process, resource mobilization, and framing approaches in social-movements research by depicting the movement as a corollary of contemporary organizational, political, and cultural conditions. We...
Recently, criminal justice professionals have advocated restorative justice as an alternative to traditional punitive practices. Extant research has not examined the strategic interpersonal dynamics between victims, offenders, supporters, and facilitators during restorative justice sessions. Our ethnographic study addresses this gap. Building on st...
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... Ideally, given a whole school culture of supports and mutual respect, RP involves multiple, engaged participants and trained facilitators, who work together to ameliorate and prevent harm (Duncan and Brandeis 2015). Training is crucial to help prevent well-meaning volunteers from unintentionally misdirecting mediation interactions in more disintegrative, caustic, and ultimately stigmatizing directions, with wider consequences for school climate (Kenney and Clairmont 2009;Presser and Hamilton 2006;Rossner 2011). Moreover, with strong community bonds, not only are RP more effective responses, but potential digital divide issues regarding educators and students may be ameliorated, given the emphasis on student relationships and communication (Hopkins 2003;Silverman and Mee 2018). ...
... Other suggestions, however, were far from those of a feminist-inspired strategy, such as a call for a free vote on the reinstatement of capital punishment (Government of Canada, 1983). These retributive Task Force outcomes had little to do with the specific needs of women as victims of sexual violence, and were rooted more in a number of tragic events at that time in Canada involving multiple child murders that left RAPE NARRATIVES IN VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS families demanding greater accountability of the criminal justice system and more punitive sentencing of serious violent offenders (Stainbridge & Scott, 2009). 3 In the years following the Task Force, the Canadian government introduced several changes to the Criminal Code to enhance the role of victims in the criminal justice process and in 1989, it was determined that victim impact statements could be given in camera at sentencing hearings. ...
