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“It’s all in how we engage with it” Shifting from Punitive Approaches to Fostering Community and Accountability in Addressing Gender-Based Violence/Harms

Healy Karlsson, Ronja LU (2025) SIMZ21 20251
Graduate School
Abstract
An exploration of alternative approaches to addressing gender-based violence/harms (GBV/H) as a phenomenon in Ireland and the UK, often articulated as a formation of ‘rape culture’ in its normalisation of these forms of harm and power dynamics, manifesting in social, political and legal spheres.
In an attempt to tackle the root causes of GBV/H, this research examines the specific harms through a purposeful shift of analysis to ‘masculinities’ as a site for potential change, offering an interjection to prevalent discourses. Applying a grounded constructivist theorisation of alternative approaches, by engaging with preventative, interventionist, and restorative mechanisms through qualitative interviews with key informants, substantiated... (More)
An exploration of alternative approaches to addressing gender-based violence/harms (GBV/H) as a phenomenon in Ireland and the UK, often articulated as a formation of ‘rape culture’ in its normalisation of these forms of harm and power dynamics, manifesting in social, political and legal spheres.
In an attempt to tackle the root causes of GBV/H, this research examines the specific harms through a purposeful shift of analysis to ‘masculinities’ as a site for potential change, offering an interjection to prevalent discourses. Applying a grounded constructivist theorisation of alternative approaches, by engaging with preventative, interventionist, and restorative mechanisms through qualitative interviews with key informants, substantiated with insights from academic and political debate within the field. Conducted from a firm grounding in anti-carceral and critical feminist literature.
It is argued that preventative, interventionist and restorative mechanisms speak directly to the limitations of the dominant criminal justice system in attentiveness to nuancing the issue of harm, reconceptualising experience frameworks as political and enacting mechanisms of affective accountability and transformation. In such, informing a shift towards alternative approaches to justice. (Less)
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author
Healy Karlsson, Ronja LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
Alternative Approaches to GBVH - Recentering and Engaging Masculinities
course
SIMZ21 20251
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Gender-Based Violence, Harms, Non-Punitive Approaches, Relational Accountability, Affective Transformations, Masculinities
language
English
id
9194162
date added to LUP
2025-06-25 14:38:25
date last changed
2025-06-25 14:38:25
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  abstract     = {{An exploration of alternative approaches to addressing gender-based violence/harms (GBV/H) as a phenomenon in Ireland and the UK, often articulated as a formation of ‘rape culture’ in its normalisation of these forms of harm and power dynamics, manifesting in social, political and legal spheres. 
In an attempt to tackle the root causes of GBV/H, this research examines the specific harms through a purposeful shift of analysis to ‘masculinities’ as a site for potential change, offering an interjection to prevalent discourses. Applying a grounded constructivist theorisation of alternative approaches, by engaging with preventative, interventionist, and restorative mechanisms through qualitative interviews with key informants, substantiated with insights from academic and political debate within the field. Conducted from a firm grounding in anti-carceral and critical feminist literature.
It is argued that preventative, interventionist and restorative mechanisms speak directly to the limitations of the dominant criminal justice system in attentiveness to nuancing the issue of harm, reconceptualising experience frameworks as political and enacting mechanisms of affective accountability and transformation. In such, informing a shift towards alternative approaches to justice.}},
  author       = {{Healy Karlsson, Ronja}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{“It’s all in how we engage with it” Shifting from Punitive Approaches to Fostering Community and Accountability in Addressing Gender-Based Violence/Harms}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}