ABSTRACT
The argument advanced here is based on two decades of researching and writing on victims’ experiences in the aftermath of crime and their desires for justice. It reflects my interests to move across the fields of domestic and international criminal justice, to understand diverse contexts of sexual victimization and to consider the ways in which context matters for justice, from a victim’s perspective. I wish to broaden the meanings of ‘justice’ for victims by identifying a wide range of justice mechanisms, both in law and civil society and to devise a robust method to assess and compare them. The Victimization and Justice Model presented here encapsulates these themes with three components: justice mechanisms, victimization contexts, and victims’ justice needs (or interests). Sexual victimization is my focus, but the model has general applicability to serious crime.
