가정폭력피해자의 회복적 대화모임 참여 경험에 관한 사례연구

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to understand domestic violence victims' participation experiences in a restorative conversation meeting conducted by the police and its meaning.
 Methods This study was conducted based on a paradigm in qualitative research methodology, and it was carried out through qualitative case study methodology among them.
 Results The study participants were two domestic violence victims who had reported to 112 and participated in a restorative conversation meeting, and an in-depth interview was carried out with them. Its analysis method was first developed to reveal a meaningful topic for each case through intra-case analysis, and categorization was attempted through inter-case analysis. The categorization resulted in six supercategories and seventeen subcategories. The domestic violence victims’ participation experiences in a restorative conversation meetingled to the supercategories: wanting to depend on public power, considering it as a last chance, building psychological stability, time to face each other's positions and situations, looking straight at grown-up self, and perpetrators’ showing a positive change. The study results presented subsequent changes and an inter-case analysis which summarized the meaning of their common experiences by topic.
 Conclusions In this study, the victims participated in the restorative conversation meeting in the hope that the public power would change the perpetrators through a restorative conversation meeting conducted by the police and with the feeling of grasping at straws, and in the participation process, they were gradually giving meaning as an experience of growing themselves from a weak position to an equal relationship with the perpetrators. It was possible to interpret this as an improvement in the victims’ ability to view the situations, cope with them, and control a conflict while experiencing a process of insight to understand the others and themselves. Finally, for internal growth and damage recovery of domestic violence victims, suggestions for revitalizing restorative conversation meeting and the necessity for policy efforts at national level were discussed.