Trauma creates challenges for the criminal justice system. But what if trauma could inform what we do?
Felicity Gerry KC says justice can take trauma-informed approaches to its practices, processes, even to court infrastructure, to enhance the quality of the process of fairness and integrity of the court in ways that benefit all court users.
With sectors such as health and education increasingly using trauma-informed practices to enhance the perception and experience of inclusion, transparency and fairness, justice could do likewise to build trust and confidence in the court’s authority.
In this edition of Consider This, Felicity Gerry KC discusses the pervasiveness of trauma, the challenges it presents, and why the trauma-informed court is core to court integrity.
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