1 - Introducing Monetary Redress
from Part I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2022
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Nations are offering billions of dollars in monetary redress to hundreds of thousands of people who experienced systemic abuse and neglect while in state care. This chapter introduces some of the social, legal, and political difficulties that this developing field of public policy confronts. Monetary redress programmes tend to be expensive, protracted, harmful to survivors, and exposed to damaging public criticism. Defining state redress as a field of public policy, this chapter introduces the cases studied, the book’s methodology, and the overarching prescriptive strategy of enabling survivor choice. Flexible redress programmes provide survivors with different pathways to redress; enabling survivors to select the processes that suit them best.
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- Monetary Redress for Abuse in State Care , pp. 3 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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