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Homepage > Archive > Numar: 4 > Book Review: Tali Gal, Child Victims and Restorative Justice: A Needs-Rights Model, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011

 Book Review: Tali Gal, Child Victims and Restorative Justice: A Needs-Rights Model, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011

    by:
  • Monique Anderson (Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. E-mail: monique.anderson@law.kuleuven.be)

Whilst practicing as a children’s rights lawyer and working with victimized children, Tali Gal was confronted with the limitations of court processes. Gal witnessed first-hand the frustration of child victims and their families who felt that they weren’t taken seriously by professionals and that they were not given the opportunity to have their voices heard. Furthermore, her experience as a child advocate had shown Gal that children both want to and are often capable of contributing to the decision-making on matters that impact their lives. Spurred on by these shortcomings in the criminal justice process, and convinced of the under explored capacities of young people, Gal began to explore the alternatives. In doing so she identified that despite the upward trajectory in attention given to the rights of children and also to the rights of victims, children who are also victims are more likely to be considered as targets for protection rather than as holders of rights