Gendering violence, remorse, and the role of restorative justice: deconstructing public perceptions of Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski
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Abstract
Fourteen year old Reena Virk was beaten by a group of teenagers and then drowned by two members of the group (Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski) on 14 November 1997, in Saanich British Columbia, Canada. While there has been much public, media and academic commentary on Kelly Ellard, no gendered analysis of the role Warren Glowatski played in this murder exists. Reflecting on the social and media constructions of boy and girl violence more broadly, as well as the specifics in the Reena Virk case, I offer a feminist analysis of the roles and presentations of masculinity and femininity within the perpetration of violence. A gendered examination of the role remorse plays within the criminal justice system and in our interpretations of ‘inherent’ boy vs girl violence is presented. Public and media constructions of Glowatski shifted, becoming more sympathetic, after he admitted guilt and became a witness for the Crown in the case against Kelly Ellard. Such a finding questions whether similar shifts would have occurred for Ellard, who continues to deny responsibility for Virk’s death and who continues to be actively demonized in the media. Similarly, how public forgiveness of Glowatski by the victim’s family operated as a technology of discursive power in the public ‘acceptance’ or forgiveness of Warren Glowatski is examined. Finally, the role of healing and forgiveness, as it is typified within the philosophical paradigm of ‘restorative justice’, is presented as a more positive way forward – for victims and criminalized persons, as well as for the criminal justice system – and in cases involving violence, particularly youth violence.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it