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Even for violent crime, justice should mean more than punishment. By paying close attention to the relational harms suffered by victims, this book develops a concept of relational justice for survivors, offenders and community. Relational justice looks beyond traditional rules of legal responsibility to include the social and emotional dimensions of human experience, opening the way for a more compassionate, effective and just response to crime. The book’s chapters follow a journey from victim experiences of violence to community healing from violence. Early chapters examine the relational harms inflicted by the worst wrongs, the moral responsibility of wrongdoers and common mistakes made in judging wrongdoing. Particular attention is paid here to sexual violence. The book then moves to questions of just punishment: proper sentencing by judges, mandatory sentences approved by the public, and the realities of contemporary incarceration, focusing particularly on solitary confinement and sexual violence. In its remaining chapters, the book looks at changes brought by the victims' rights movement and victim needs that current law does not, and perhaps cannot meet. It then addresses possibilities for offender change and challenges for majority America in addressing race discrimination in criminal justice. The book concludes with a look at how individuals might live out the ideals of a greater—relational—justice.

Criminals --- Social justice. --- Criminal justice, Administration of. --- Punishment. --- Violence. --- Collective responsibility --- Crime --- Criminal justice reform --- Individual responsibility --- Justice --- Mass incarceration --- Punishment --- Racial bias --- Restorative justice --- Violence --- Rehabilitation.

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Christa Wolf (1929-), Ingeborg Drewitz (1923-1986), and Grete Weil (1906-1999) occupy very different positions in postwar German literature, yet all three challenge readers to consider how individuals understand their roles in history and how they negotiate their personal responsibilities based on those roles. These three are, of course, by no means the only German writers to have dealt with such questions in the wake of the Third Reich. But Wolf, Drewitz, and Weil ground their projects in the family, an institution often left out of such inquiries, giving them a different starting point for moral reflection. Before looking closely at the three writers' views of the individual's role and responsibility, the book devotes a chapter to the examination of individual and collective memory, then a chapter to how feminist ethicists view moral responsibility. Chapters on the three writers' literary approaches to the questions follow: Wolf enacts a process of historical and geographic triangulation; Drewitz constructs concentric historical and social circles; Weil seeks to repair the historical ruptures of the Holocaust, creating new historical narratives and exploring the limitations of traditional bourgeois morality. Each of the three attempts to map a geography of morals that begins within the structures of the extended family but interrogates individual responsibility in an increasingly globalized environment. Michelle Mattson is Associate Professor of German at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.

German literature --- German fiction --- Literature and morals --- Ethics in literature. --- Literature --- Morals and literature --- Ethics --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Influence --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Wolf, Christa --- Drewitz, Ingeborg --- Weil, Grete, --- Jockisch, Grete --- Dispeker, Margarete Elisabeth --- Volf, Krista --- Ihlenfeld, Christa Margarete --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Weil, Grete --- Jockisch, Grete, --- Dispeker, Margarete Elisabeth, --- Christa Wolf. --- German literature. --- Grete Weil. --- Ingeborg Drewitz. --- Postwar German Women's Fiction. --- Third Reich. --- bourgeois morality. --- family. --- feminism. --- feminist ethics. --- historical narratives. --- history. --- individual responsibility. --- memory. --- moral reflection.