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A HEARING: FORGIVENESS, RESENTMENT AND RECOVERY IN LAW

Stauffer, Jill
June 4, 2015

Source: (2011) QLR. (30) 517

“One aim of a legal response to violence is to create a certain kind of present moment, one that does justice to a past that needs redress, while also opening up a future that is not fully determined by past harms. But what does violence sound like in a legal proceeding, and how do we hear it?”(Excerpt)

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