Monetary Redress for Abuse in State Care

A compelling, empirically driven argument for participatory, flexible, and survivor-focussed redress programmes for abuse in state care.

Stephen Winter (Author)

9781316514160, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 December 2022

223 pages
23.5 x 15.5 x 2.1 cm, 0.62 kg

'This is a thoughtful and illuminating book that deepens our understanding of the problems and promise of monetary redress programmes. Rich in detail, and broad in scope, it is a compelling account of how redress is done, and how programmes for survivors of abuse can be improved.' Elizabeth Stanley, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington.

Investigating a fast-developing field of public policy, Stephen Winter examines how states redress injuries suffered by young people in state care. Considering ten illustrative exemplar programmes from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and Aotearoa New Zealand, Winter explores how redress programmes attempt to resolve the anguish, injustice, and legacies of trauma that survivors experience. Drawing from interviews with key stakeholders and a rich trove of documentary research, this book analyses how policymakers should navigate the trade-offs that survivors face between having their injuries acknowledged and the difficult, often retraumatising, experience of attaining redress. A timely critical engagement with this contentious policy domain, Winter presents empirically driven recommendations and a compelling argument for participatory, flexible, and survivor-focussed programmes. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Part I: 1. Introducing monetary redress
2. Injurious histories
3. What makes redress better? Part II: 4. Irish redress
5. Australian redress
6. Canadian redress
7. Redress in Aotearoa New Zealand
Part III: 8. Redress policy design and delivery
9. Who and what should be eligible for redress? 10. The evidentiary process
11. Assessing redress claims
12. Local and holistic support for survivors
13. What to pay in redress and how to pay it
14. Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3, Index.

Subject Areas: Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC]