that they once trusted. In a an law article titled I Just Wanted Him to Hear Me': Sexual Violence and the Possibilities of Restorative Justice, restorative justice is said to be ‘contentious’ as it may trivialize violence against women, re-victimize the vulnerable, and endanger the safety of victim-survivors (McGlynn, Westmarland, & Godden, 2012). In fact, Angela Cameron, author of `Stopping the Violence' a theoretical criminology book claims that, “To introduce restorative justice is to `gamble' with women's lives” (Cameron, 2006). Similarly, Ruth Lewis et al. suggest that, “Restorative conferencing is just another attempt to `divert' violence against women `away from the justice system and into the hands of others” (Lewis et al.,2001). Many
