Sexual violence against children and transitional justice: bearing witness and preserving testimony about injustice in childhood
- 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.
Author: | Sabine AndresenORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-722264 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s42448-021-00075-9 |
ISSN: | 2524-5244 |
Parent Title (English): | International journal on child maltreatment |
Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
Place of publication: | Cham |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/05/15 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/05/15 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2023/03/21 |
Tag: | Child sexual abuse; Childhood theory; Independent inquiry in Germany; Survivors testimonies; Transitional justice |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 2 |
Page Number: | 15 |
First Page: | 193 |
Last Page: | 207 |
Note: | Funding: BMFSFJ, Federal Ministry of Family Affairs. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 508902088 |
Institutes: | Erziehungswissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung | |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |