Redressing institutional abuse of children / Kathleen Daly.

Basingstoke : Palgrave macmillan, 2014.

202086

Sexually abused children -- Canada.

Sexually abused children -- Australia.

Child abuse -- Canada.

Child abuse -- Australia.

Introduction: Setting the context

Part I. The Problem

1. Discovering institutional abuse

Mount Cashel beginnings

Ripple effects

Total institutions

Child abuse, institutional child abuse, and historical institutional abuse

Reclaiming Goffman

Why is sexual abuse privileged?

Discovering abuse: a wrap up

2.The cases

Country and case selection

Case types and overview

Canadian core cases

Canadian core-plus cases

Australian core cases

Australian core-plus cases

Australian redress schemes only

Observations

3.Institutions for children and memories of institutional life

Institutions for children

Enablers of abuse

Is abuse more likely in institutions for children?

Social construction and 'accounts'

Memories of institutional life

Positive memories

Isolation and separation

Control and fear

Degradation and neglect

Impact and legacy

Part II. The response

4.Time and Knowledge

Three Gaps

Inquiries and investigations, 1850 to 1970

Whispers of 'sexual acts', 1950 to 1970

Complaints of abuse by residents and families

Emergence of a social problem

What sparked responses?

Quantifying responses to abuse

Turning the tables on 'delay'

Knowledge and human endeavour

Making sense of time and knowledge

5.Redress structure and process

Criminal prosecution and civil litigation

Public inquiries

What is redress?

Introducing victims' justice interests

Participation

Redress scheme structure

Redress scheme content

Redress scheme constraints

Redress scheme structure and process: a wrap up

6.Redress outcomes

Redress scheme outcomes

Civil settlement outcomes

Adjusting payments for inflation and currencies

Public inquiry cases

Apologies and memorialization

Redress outcomes: a wrap up

7.Redress and victims' justice interests

Multiple realities

State of evidence

Victims' justice interests: engaging all the elements

Public inquiries

Redress scheme process

Redress outcomes

Victims' justice interests: reprise and reflection

8.Summary and implications

Defining institutional abuse

Historicizing institutional abuse and responses to it

Different types of cases

Defining redress

Justice theorizations

Need for multiple theorizations

Is there an optimal process?

How does money matter?

Government (or church) experience and accountability

Looking forward.

What constitutes institutional abuse of children? What is redress? What do survivors want? In this book, Kathleen Daly explores major cases of historical institutional abuse of children in Canada and Australia. Drawing from first-hand accounts of survivors, the book documents their memories growing up in institutions and their experiences with redress, to examine whether justice interests -- for participation, voice, validation, vindication, and offender accountability -- are achieved. Redress for institutional abuse includes civil litigation, public inquiries, and redress schemes. Daly analyzes these areas, paying close attention to redress schemes and asks whether, from a victim's perspective, there is an optimal redress process and outcome. With significant attention worldwide towards identifying effective responses to historical institutional abuse, this text provides a timely, lively, and authoritative resource. - back cover.

Dedication from author on title page: "For Tina with best wishes - & so glad you came to the launch! Kathy April 2015".

Sticker on first imprint page: "Magistrate Tina Previtera 2014"

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-291) and index.

9781137414342

xiii, 304 pages ; 23 cm.