ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the difficulties of addressing sexual violence with restorative justice and outlines the Project Restore's practice model. The desk-based case review of twelve cases from Project Restore's files used Daly's (2014) Victimisation and Justice Model as a framework for analysis and enabled this review to move beyond a mere satisfaction survey. Daly argued justice interests are legitimate justice elements assessable in their own right and identified these as participation, voice, validation, vindication and offender accountability. Julich (2001) argued that restorative justice could lessen costs by providing victim-survivors with a sense of justice. Indeed, restorative justice is funded by the state for a variety of reasons, including the promotion of well-being and cost savings. Project Restore's experience is that victim-survivors are not always seeking imprisonment as an outcome of reporting sexual abuse. In some cases victim-survivors and participants were unsure as to what outcomes they were hoping to achieve.
