Introduction

The prevalence of campus sexual misconduct is starkly illustrated by multiple institutional and national surveys. The relative consistency of these data across public and private college communities is a sobering reminder of the depth of harm experienced with gut-wrenching regularity. When Schrage and Giacomini released the first edition of Reframing Campus Conflict in 2009, the optimism they reflected was rooted in the observed movement away from policy established firmly in a legal framework. Transformation by definition is a dramatic change, and the restorative approach to sexual and gender-based misconduct requires traversing through understanding to deep reflection. It requires applying new knowledge and understanding while evaluating what has been learned and, finally, turning that process into building something new. Perhaps in this context something new is a transformed conceptualization of healthy relationships in community. This chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.