Reframing Public Inquiries as 'Procedural Justice' for Victims of Institutional Child Abuse: Towards a Hybrid Model of Justice

As the number of high profile cases of institutional child abuse mounts internationally, and the demands of victims for justice are heard, state responses have ranged from prosecution, apology, and compensation schemes, to truth commissions or public inquiries. Drawing on the examples of Australia and Northern Ireland as two jurisdictions with a recent and ongoing history of statutory inquiries into institutional child abuse, the article utilises the restorative justice paradigm to critically evaluate the strengths and limitations of the inquiry framework in providing ‘justice’ for victims. It critically explores the normative and pragmatic implications of a hybrid model as a more effective route to procedural justice and suggests that an appropriately designed restorative pathway may augment the legitimacy and utility of the public inquiry model for victims chiefly via improving offender accountability and ‘voice’ for victims. The article concludes by offering some thoughts on the broader implications for other jurisdictions in responding to large-scale historical abuses and seeking to come to terms with the legacy of institutional child abuse.

Svenska för invandrarskap? : Språk, kategorisering och identitet inom utbildningsformen Svenska för invandrare

The overall purpose of this thesis and the four independent studies it builds upon is to examine how categorizations and identity positions are constructed and negotiated in the educational program Swedish for immigrants (SFI) both historically and among participants in the program at the beginning of the 21th century. The analytical focus is on the discourses that frame the development of the SFI program with a specific interest in categorizations and identity in relation to gender, language and national belonging. The empirical material includes historical texts (curricula, commission reports, public inquiries, political propositions, laws) from 1965 to 2010, as well as approximately 95 hours of audio and video recorded data and ethnographic field notes from five SFI classrooms. The results are presented primarily in the four articles but partly also in the thesis itself. Our analysis in the first study, that takes a sociohistorical perspective as a point of departure, indicates shifts in discourses with regards to the categories and aims of the educational program, thus, making certain identity positions more accessible than others at specific times. Using the approach of nexus analysis, the theoretical framework employed in the second study approaches language policies n terms of a dialectical elationship between policy and the learning that takes lace in the language focused classroom. Feminist and postcolonial frameworks re employed ore pecifically in the third and fourth studies. The historical nalysis presented in article three shows how the categories of “immigrant” and Swedes” ave been produced and negotiated in discourses on gender and gender quality in the SFI program since the early 1970s. The fourth study highlights he omplex relationship between gender equality and integration policies, as well as he perception of gender equality as a central part of Swedishness”, negotiated in he everyday conversations in the SFI classroom. Overall, the results illuminate he circulation of discourses both cross ime and between policy and classrooms. oreover, it contributes to a critical discussion about the intersection of language, ender and national elonging in the negotiation of boundaries between insiders and outsiders in Swedish society.

Report on public baths and public comfort stations : being a supplementary report to the inquiries into the tenement house question in the city of New York, pursuant to chapter 479 of the laws of 1894 /

"Transmitted to the Legislature, April 9, 1897."

The Jewish faith: its spiritual consolation, moral guidance, and immortal hope; with a brief notice of the reasons for many of its ordinances and prohibitions; a series of letters answering the inquiries of youth.

Bound with the authors Shemaʻ Yiśraʾel. Philadelphia, 1864.

Inquiries into trades for factory workers : sample mounting and sample case making, perfumery trade, paper box making, candy trade, case making for jewelry and silverware.

"Affiliated with settlements and other organizations"--T.p.

Answers to inquiries respecting Frome Selwood, in Somersetshire,

Mode of access: Internet.

Economic inquiries and studies,

Mode of access: Internet.

Medical observations and inquiries /

Mode of access: Internet.

Historical inquiries, concerning the Roman monuments and antiquities in the north part of Britain called Scotland.

No. [1] in a made-up volume with binder's title: Sibbald's antiquities.

Diseases of the lungs from mechanical causes; and inquiries into the condition of the artisans exposed to the inhalation of dust

Mode of access: Internet.

The folklore, manners, customs, and languages of the South Australian aborigines: gathered from inquiries made by authority of South Australian government.

"Facsimiles of letters written by aborigines educated at the mission schools", listed in Table of contents, and in Index as p. 29 of the Addendum, are not found in this copy; page 28 ends with the word "Finis", followed by printer's address at foot of page.

Experimental inquiries : part the first. Containing an inquiry into the properties of the blood. With remarks on some of its morbid appearances : and an appendix, relating to the discovery of the lymphatic system in birds, fish, and the animals called amphibious ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Address to the citizens of Pennsylvania on the importance of a more liberal encouragement of agriculture : accompanied with inquiries on agricultural subjects proposed by the Philadelphia society for promoting agriculture, with a view to form an expose of the state of agriculture in Pennsylvania.

Wrappers.

The natural history of man; comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family.

Atlas, second edition: 6 maps. London: H. Baillière, 1855.