Webinar team-up: Supporting Accountability in Individuals who have Caused Harm
I was grateful to work with Kate Crozier, Sarah Scanlon, and Jude Oudshoom recently on a webinar for the Zehr Insitute. We appreciate everyone showing up for our conversation around ‘Supporting Accountability in Individuals who have Caused Harm’.
Here are a few suggested resources that we put together.
Reflections and tools for accountability (in response to gender-based violence)
Videos
- What is Accountability?
- What are Obstacles to Accountability?
- How to Support Harm Doers in Being Accountable
- A Better Man by Attiya Khan, Lawrence Jackman – NFB
- #ItWasMe — Changing Ways
Articles
- Resisting a transforming a rape culture: an activist stance for therapeutic work with men who have used violence. VikkiReynolds
- Thinking Through Perpetrator Accountability | TransformHarm.org
- Talking with men who have used violence in intimate relationships (dulwichcentre.com.au)
- No One Is Disposable: Towards Feminist Models of Transformative Justice (yorku.ca)
- As if they were human: A different take on perpetrator accountability. Tod Augusta-Scott.
- Thinking Through Perpetrator Accountability
- Working With Perpetrators Of Abuse: Abuser Accountability
Websites/ toolkits
- How can you support the person who caused harm to take accountability? | He Ara Mataora (wananga.com)
- Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Violence
- Safety Planning and Intimate Partner Violence: A Toolkit for Survivors and Supporters. CommunityJusticeExchange
- Essential Elements for Non Punitive Accountability: A Workbook for Understanding Alternative Responses to Gender-Based Violence
- Supporting the Whole Campus Community: A Roadmap Tool for Working with People Who Have Caused Harm
- Self-Audit Tool For Practitioners Who Work With People Who Have Caused Harm
- Building Accountable Communities
Books
- Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators – Kaba; Hassan
- The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence – Levine; Meiners
- Becoming Ethical: A Parallel, Political Journey with Men Who Have Abused – Jenkins
- Invitations to Responsibility: The therapeutic engagement of men who are violent and abusive Jenkins
- The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Sexual Abuse – Oudshoorn; Jackett; Stutzman Amstutz
- Holding Change: The way of emergent strategy facilitation and mediation – Adrienne M. Brown
- Until We Reckon: Violence, mass incarceration, and a road to repair – Sered
- Engaging Resistance: Creating Partnership for Change in Sexual Offender Treatment – Flinton; Scholz
On men and gender-based violence: videos
- The Masks We All Wear | Ashanti Branch
- Violence against women—it’s a men’s issue: Jackson Katz at TEDxFiDiWomen
- TOUGH GUISE – Trailer – Extended Preview
- Liz Plank: For the Love of Me | The Man Enough Podcast
- Man Enough Episode 1 – Why Don’t Men Talk
- A call to men | Tony Porter
On men and gender-based violence: books
- For the Love of Men – Liz Plank
- The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help -Katz
- The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love – bell hooks.
- No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America- Darnell Moore
- BOYS: What it Means to Become a Man – Rachel Giese
- Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined – J.J. Bola
