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040 _aAFVC
100 _aLundy, Patricia
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245 _a"I just want justice" :
_bthe impact of historical institutional child-abuse inquiries from the survivor's perspective
_cPatricia Lundy
260 _bIrish-American Cultural Institute,
_c2020
500 _aÉire-Ireland, 2020, 55(1&2): 252-278
520 _aWhat do survivors of institutional abuse need in order to feel that justice has been realized? How can a sense of redress—of jus-tice achieved—be measured? This essay explores such questions by describing the results of an empirical research study investigating Northern Ireland’s Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIAI), which focused on physical, sexual, and emotional neglect in children’s residential institutions between 1922 and 1995. The research study, carried out primarily in Northern Ireland, provided detailed analysis of survivors’ interaction with the inquiry and sought to gauge victims’ needs and expectations revealed by their participation in the HIAI. Building on the limited research already done in the field, the study’s conclusions suggest that a survivor’s sense of justice and redress is affected not just by the original crime but also by her or his involvement in the criminal-justice systems set up to investigate such offenses. This study explored survivors’ justice needs constituting redress—including, for example, acknowledgment of abuse, attitudes toward apology, accountability, opportunities to tell their stories, and symbolic and financial reparation—as well as their assessment of the inquiry’s legal processes. (Opening paragraph). Record #6848
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_aADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE
650 4 _946
_aADULT SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE
650 4 _aJUSTICE
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650 0 _aINSTITUTIONAL ABUSE
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651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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651 4 _aUNITED KINGDOM
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651 _aNORTHERN IRELAND
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773 0 _tÉire-Ireland, 2020, 55(1&2): 252-278
830 _aÉire-Ireland
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2020.0011
_zDOI: 10.1353/eir.2020.0011
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_cARTICLE