In recent years, growing concerns have been expressed – including in the press and social media – over the apparently inadequate responses of many United Kingdom (UK) universities to complaints of student sexual violence and misconduct (SSVM). In this article, we underscore universities’ legal, ethical, and civic responsibilities to students, which require them to implement effective regimes for the prevention and sanctioning of such behaviour. We suggest, however, that current responses are moving in the wrong direction. More specifically, universities are too often turning (back) towards adversarial and procedural paradigms, developed within the criminal justice system, where the persistence of a ‘justice gap’ in cases of rape and sexual assault has been well documented. We argue that this ‘criminal justice drift’ may frustrate the possibility for more tailored, transformative, and trauma-informed processes for addressing SSVM within higher education institutions.

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寻求校园正义：挑战英国大学对学生性暴力和不当行为的回应中的“刑事正义漂移”

近年来，包括媒体和社交媒体在内的许多英国大学对学生性暴力和不当行为 (SSVM) 的投诉反应明显不足，越来越受到关注。在本文中，我们强调大学对学生的法律、道德和公民责任，这要求他们实施有效的制度来预防和制裁此类行为。然而，我们认为当前的反应正朝着错误的方向发展。更具体地说，大学经常转向（退回）在刑事司法系统中发展起来的对抗性和程序范式，在这些范式中，强奸和性侵犯案件中“正义差距”的持续存在已被充分证明。