Challenges of implementing restorative justice for intimate partner violence: An Islamic perspective

ABSTRACT

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is currently recognized as a critical public health concern and a human rights issue. Not surprisingly, Muslims – a religiously and socio-culturally diverse faith-based populace – are not an exception. To address this complex area of criminal justice and social policy, some scholars advocate implementing restorative justice (RJ) approaches. While RJ approaches have been traditionally used in Islamic cultures for conflict resolutions, to date, few studies have investigated how RJ operates in dealing with IPV in Muslim countries and communities. This article explores how RJ approaches towards IPV operate in some Muslim countries/communities, and offers insights into developing culturally and religiously appropriate ways of implementing RJ in IPV situations among Muslims. Given the prevalence of IPV among Muslims, the question is particularly important and timely. Taking exclusively limited examples of RJ approaches that have been used to mediate IPV cases in Muslim countries and communities, this paper found one significant challenge in the RJ approaches among Muslims: community acceptance of IPV. To reduce IPV in Muslim society, it is necessary to develop treatment models and techniques that meet cultural and religious needs. This paper found that since RJ is not alien to Islamic teachings, RJ approaches can be implemented effectively in dealing with IPV among Muslims by ensuring justice and equity of the abused woman. The findings of this paper will assist policymakers, practitioners, and service providers in providing religiously and culturally appropriate care when addressing IPV issues among Muslims.     

价值观与行为:大学生网络人格异化问题与对策探究

网络人格异化是当前大学生群体存在的一个不可忽视的问题,具体表现为自我认知迷失、道德判断弱化和社会交往封闭。在新的历史条件下,为有效解决该问题,要充分发挥价值观对人的实践行为的反作用,以社会主义核心价值观引导大学生完善网络人格,帮助大学生筑牢理想信念,正确认识自我,倡导理性思考,学会明辨是非,投身社会实践,笃实做人干事。     

依托太行山红色文化推进大学生社会主义核心价值观教育

红色文化是在中国共产党领导下中国人民经过长期浴血奋战中形成的伟大精神产物和物质载体。太行山红色文化囊括了革命先辈浴血前行的功绩,更有燕赵人民不屈不挠、奋勇抵抗的事迹见证。高校要充分发挥红色文化与社会主义核心价值观的育人功能,将红色文化内涵转变为当代大学生的精神气质,从多个方向,多个层次发掘和拓展大学生的红色人文主义精神,从而实现社会主义核心价值观教育的实效性。     

Familism Values,Family Time,and Mexican‐Origin Young Adults' Depressive Symptoms

Using longitudinal data across eight years, this study examined how parents' familism values in early adolescence predicted youths' depressive symptoms in young adulthood via youths' familism values and family time. We examined these processes among 246 Mexican‐origin families using interview and phone‐diary data. Findings revealed that fathers' familism values predicted male and female youths' familism values in middle adolescence. For female youth only, fathers' familism values also predicted youths' family time in late adolescence. The link between family time and young adults' depressive symptoms depended on parental acceptance and adolescent gender: Among female and male youth, family time predicted fewer depressive symptoms, but only when paternal acceptance was high. For female adolescents only, family time predicted fewer depressive symptoms when maternal acceptance was high but more depressive symptoms when maternal acceptance was low. Findings highlight family dynamics as the mechanisms through which familism values have implications for youths' adjustment.     

The concept of reflection: is it skill based or values?

Reflection, reflectivity, reflective practice, reflective praxis and critical reflection are all dialogical terms used interchangeably to mean different things. It is timely to take time out and pause on this important concept to consider the wider implications of its use. Whatever reflection is, we know there are difficulties in identifying this complex idea writers, practitioners and scholars constantly engage with reflection in new debates about ‘how to do it better’ assuming the ‘it’ is something assessed and understood. More worryingly a student’s ability to reflect is assessed assuming the idea of reflective practice is a measureable phenomenon. Some have identified problems of assessing reflection. There is limited empirical evidence of what is reflection. In the substantial literature on reflection we have failed to ask the question – ‘What is reflection it if doesn’t exist that I might be able to perform it better and others can measure?’ The problem of reflection is more complicated when presenting reflective performance through language, which will also be explored. This article presents a challenge to contemporary ideas of the way in which reflection is conceptualised and understood. The article concludes with insights and a way forward for a new argument on reflection and how it might be linked to virtue ethics rather than it being viewed as a skill that can be taught.     

The Meaningful Involvement of Service Users in Social Work Education: Examples from Belgium and The Netherlands

This article links the development of service user involvement championed in the United Kingdom to two examples in Dutch-speaking qualifying social work programmes: one from Belgium and one from the Netherlands. In both projects, a longer lasting cooperation with more marginalised service users was established. The Belgium project highlights social work lecturers and service users living in poverty, working in tandem to deliver a module to social work and socio-educational care work students. The example from the Netherlands involves young people from a homeless shelter as peer-researchers, working together with social work students.

Both projects, one focusing on social work education and on social work research, highlight striking similarities in the positives and challenges of working with service users including how this challenges both groups preconceptions of the other, deepens learning but also creates greater potential for confrontations which need to be managed creatively. The article also identifies the pre-requisites for this to be effective including appropriate resourcing, training, facilitative skills and acknowledges that collaborations can be extremely fragile. However, such projects need further investment, experimentation and implementation on an international scale to share learning and promote creative approaches for the development and learning of social work students.     

Late Adapters? How Social Workers Acquire Knowledge and Skills About Technology Tools

Little is understood about the scope of information and communication technology (ICT) use in practice for agency-based social work professionals, and still less is known about how such practitioners acquire and avail themselves of opportunities to learn about ICT tools. This study asked a sample of social work field supervisors (n?=?371) to describe their personal and professional ICT use, to rank the technological sophistication of their agency, to describe the barriers and facilitators to ICT use in their organizations and to operationalize environmental opportunities for acquiring new skills and knowledge. The authors examine factors that may influence technology use: asking if organizational culture is related to uptake in the professional context, and if self-reported individual resistance to innovation and change can explain voluntary adoption of ICT tools. The results offer a portrait of how agency-based social workers are using technology in personal and professional life, describe how these supervisors learn about developing technologies for practice, and highlight the gaps in technology infrastructures among agencies, pointing to directions for further exploration.     

社会主义核心价值观视域下大学生社会责任感培育研究

习近平总书记2018年5月2日在北京大学师生座谈会上指出,当代青年是同新时代共同前进的一代,承载着祖国的希 望、民族的未来,寄希望每一个青年都成为社会主义建设者和接班人,不辱时代使命,不负人民期望。青年大学生社会责任感 的高低对新时代我国社会主义建设至关重要。社会主义核心价值观是社会主义核心价值体系的集中表达,以社会主义核心价 值观作为新的切入点,对新时代青年大学生社会责任感培育进行研究,提出必须以社会主义核心价值观引领大学生社会责任 感的培育。努力深化社会责任感教育内容,创新教育方法,坚持主流意识形态,抢占高校思想阵地,有利于提升大学生综合素 质,创建和谐的社会氛围,推动新时代社会主义事业的建设。     

“抖音”上的个体形象建构与对社会价值观的呼应——兼论书写“抖音”微生活民族志的可能性

人们构建形象、呈现自我的方式在自媒体时代不断发生着转变,这是人类学家不得不关注的现象。赵旭东教授指出,“微信民族志”时代已经到来。本研究认为,“抖音”作为当代青年中最具影响力的短视频平台,可以拓展微信民族志研究,但怎样开展“抖音”微生活民族志研究尚无一些有创建的尝试。本研究首先分析了书写“抖音”微生活民族志的可能性,进而厘清了研究对象,且以此为基础,对“抖音”微生活民族志进行了一种探索性的书写,试分析“抖音”短视频对个体形象建构的主观和客观影响。研究发现,短视频内容文本的反复强化特点促使个体有效建构自我形象;在个体不主动避讳被熟人观看时,他们的线下形象与线上形象基本吻合;看似是网民共同主动筛选出来的网红,实则是当前社会价值观的反映。     

科技创新与生态化价值观

传统的科技创新价值观是建立在“发展是天然合理的”哲学信念上,忽视了社会全面可持续发展的哲学问题与环境问题。我们认为科技创新生态化价值观根源于人类对可持续生存与发展的价值观,科技创新的生态化转向是实现可持续发展的根本条件。