Actual Change: Evaluation of the recognition measures for victims of violence in youth care by Eva Mulder, Niké Wentholt, Naomi Ormskerk, Yara Bodegraven, Jake Smit, and Nicole Immler.

In this commissioned research for WODC, researchers from DoJ worked together with other UvH-researchers to study government measures to recognize violent in youth care. Apart from this evaluation, that formed the core of the research assignment, we also designed a conceptual intervention. On the basis of previous DoJ-research, literature, and most importantly answers from the victimised from surveys and interviews on what recognition meant to them, we developed a five-layered recognition framework. This shows that a recognition process should always address multiple facets of the violence and the different parts of personhood that are affected. 

Our research centred the voices of peer representatives and victimised people. 

In this revised version, we have de-anonymised citations from the two peer representatives Daisy Petrona and Marlene van Steensel. We have also adjusted parts of the chapter on the physical monument. In an added foreword, we reflect on these choices and thank the peer representatives for their important feedback.

The full report can be read here [in Dutch], as well as a summary in Dutch. The English summary is provided below.