TY  - JOUR
A1  - Andresen, Sabine
T1  - Sexual violence against children and transitional justice: bearing witness and preserving testimony about injustice in childhood
T2  - International journal on child maltreatment
N2  - Efforts to come to terms with sexual violence against children and adolescents are predicated on a desire to achieve justice. Based on the work done by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Germany, this article attempts to identify the interfaces between the Inquiry’s undertakings and the field of transitional justice. Using an approach informed by the theory of childhood, it examines the issues that arise when survivors bear witness to past childhood events. This must adopt a perspective that is sensitive to childhood and adolescence as unique life phases. That, in turn, requires accounting for concomitant factors, such as the context presented by a child’s growth and development, the function of families, the role played by educational institutions, and the legal position accorded children by society. The article thus adopts a framework rooted in childhood theory that considers children both generally as human beings and specifically as children.
KW  - Child sexual abuse
KW  - Independent inquiry in Germany
KW  - Transitional justice
KW  - Survivors testimonies
KW  - Childhood theory
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/72226
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-722264
SN  - 2524-5244
N1  - Funding: BMFSFJ, Federal Ministry of Family Affairs.
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
SP  - 193
EP  - 207
PB  - Springer International Publishing
CY  - Cham
ER  -