Editing Transformative justice (section)

=== Sexual Violence and Harm ===
Transformative justice aims to recognize and sit with the needs and desires of victim-survivors of [[sexual violence]] in seeking justice. Acknowledging the interconnectedness of individual and social justice, advocates of transformative justice hold that experiences of [[intimate partner violence]] and sexual violence are linked to the broader ways that factors such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, migrant and legal status, and beyond manifest as hierarchies of power and oppression. <ref name=":4" /> Recognizing that the state and formal criminal justice system often uphold these hierarchies, transformative justice responses to sexual violence often seek resolutions within community or civil society-based groups. <ref name=":5" />

As stated by the generation FIVE coalition, a response to sexual violence as grounded in transformative justice must promote:

1.     Survivor safety, healing and agency

2.     Offender accountability and transformation

3.     Community response and accountability

4.     Transformation of the community and social conditions that create and perpetuate sexual violence, i.e. systems of oppression, exploitation, domination, and State violence.<ref name=":4" />

While transformative justice seeks to compassionately put the experiences of those harmed by sexual violence in conversation with the way that communities are both sites ''and'' sources of similar violence, feminist critiques of restorative justice also extend to transformative justice. Noting in particular how some victim-survivors may desire a retributive and carceral “solution”, Annalise Acorn provides important complexity to alternative modes of justice that calls on transformative justice practitioners to be attentive to the intimate and profound harm of sexual violence. <ref>Acorn, Annalise. ''Compulsory Compassion: A Critique of Restorative Justice''. Vancouver: University of British Colombia Press, 2004.</ref>