Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice

Marie Keenan, Associate Professor, School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland,Estelle Zinsstag, Lecturer in Criminology, Edinburgh Napier University

Marie Keenan (PhD) specialises in public policy and therapeutic responses to crime. Her research interests focus on sexual trauma and abuse and on restorative and transformative justice. She is a systemic and forensic psychotherapist, a lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, a member of the Advisory Board of UCD's Criminology Institute and a restorative justice practitioner. She is a member of the International Academic Board for a review of the literature for the Australian Royal Commission into the sexual abuse of children in Australia. She was recently co-principal researcher on a European Commission funded (Daphne III) project entitled 'Developing integrated responses to sexual violence: An interdisciplinary research project on the potential of restorative justice' and principal investigator on 'Sexual trauma and abuse: restorative and transformative possibilities?'.

Estelle Zinsstag (PhD, MSc) is a senior researcher at the Leuven Institute for Criminology, University of Leuven (Belgium). She has recently finalised as the coordinator and co-principal researcher a European Commission funded (Daphne III) project entitled 'Developing integrated responses to sexual violence: An interdisciplinary research project on the potential of restorative justice'. She has previously been awarded an F+ KU Leuven Post-Doctoral Fellowship to work as part of the team of the FP7 Project ALTERNATIVE (on RJ in intercultural settings). She publishes in the fields of sexual violence, transitional justice, and restorative justice. She is founding member and managing editor of Restorative Justice: an International Journal (Routledge). She has been a stipendiary visiting fellow at Cornell Law School and been invited to present her work in the USA, Hong Kong, Iran, France, Germany, Poland, Hungary, the UK, Belgium, Spain and Portugal.