Shannon M. Sliva

Building a Social Work for Social Movements

Sophia Sarantakos, Shannon M. Sliva

On May 6, 2015, Chicago became the first city in the United States to make formal reparations to the victims of racist law enforcement (Hayes & Kaba, 2023). The Chicago Reparations Ordinance sought to systematically address the unspeakable violence perpetrated by Chicago …

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Effects of Safety, Trauma, and Sense of Purpose on Health and Mental Stress in Prison

Jeffrey Lin, Shannon M. Sliva, Maya Yesharim, Stephanie Locke

Exploring the impacts of engaged mindfulness on women residents in a community corrections facility: a narrative analysis

My Ngoc To, Shannon M. Sliva, Miriam G. Valdovinos

Incarcerated women face unique challenges which affect their experiences in prison as well as their process of reintegration into society. Community corrections facilities, while designed to support this transition, are often experienced as stressful, low-trust environments. Promoting positive social environments in these …

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Collective insights on the past, present, and future of restorative justice research

Shannon M. Sliva, Rochelle Arms Almengor, Anne Hobbs

In 2022, the National Center on Restorative Justice (NCORJ) launched the Restorative Justice Research Community (RJRC) and selected a cohort of research fellows to engage in a series of dialogues about the state of restorative justice research and its future. Eight dialogues …

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Effects of victim offender dialogue on mental health and trauma appraisals among victims of violence

Shannon M. Sliva, Ceema Samimi, Tyler M. Han, Karen Albright

This study examines the impact of Victim Offender Dialogue (VOD) on victims and survivors of violent crime. We apply a mixed methods approach to compare the experiences of survivors participating in VOD with a group of survivors who chose not to participate …

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The Wall Has No Name: The Persistence of the Prison in the Face of Change

Shannon M. Sliva, Jeffrey Lin

Prison reform in Colorado has been halting, despite political and cultural conditions that are broadly conducive to making meaningful changes to correctional policies and practices. These conditions led to Colorado being chosen for the Prison Research and Innovation Network—a five-state consortium given …

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Beyond Lawmaking

Shannon M. Sliva

This chapter examines the trend of lawmaking as a means to further the use of restorative justice as a criminal legal system response. It focuses on the case of the United States, finding that the implementation of statutory enactments has been limited …

Restorative Justice

Shannon M. Sliva, Sophia P. Sarantakos

Abstract Restorative justice is a community-based approach to harm response that is increasingly used in criminal legal settings as an alternative or supplement to court and correctional procedures. It is uniquely situated for social work practice due to its focus on human …

“He went from being a monster to a person:” Using narrative analysis to explore how victim-offender dialogue (VOD) participants transform through the VOD process

Danielle Maude Littman, Miriam G. Valdovinos, Shannon M. Sliva

Restorative justice practices such as victim-offender dialogue (VOD) have gained traction in the past few decades as routes towards healing amidst high incarceration and recidivism rates and growing public dissatisfaction with punitive carceral structures. However, little work has sought to understand the …

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An intersectionality-based analysis of high seas policy making stagnation and equity in United Nations negotiations

Jessica L. Decker Sparks, Shannon M. Sliva

Social Work call on social workers to "create social responses to a changing environment" by addressing the socioeconomic impacts of environmental challenges with a specific emphasis on "advocacy to elevate public and policy attention to the social and human dimensions of environmental …

Closer to the problem: can a virtual prison arts event foster psychological proximity to the issue of incarceration?

Danielle Maude Littman, Shannon M. Sliva, Jeffrey Lin

Prisons are physically separated from society. As a result, the public has little contact with incarcerated people, and few avenues for understanding their lived experiences. Our evaluation draws upon construal level theory – the idea that the more concrete something becomes, the …

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“The walls came down:” A Mixed-Methods Multi-Site Prison Arts Program Evaluation

Danielle Maude Littman, Shannon M. Sliva

Considerable research has linked participation in arts programs to a constellation of positive social emotional outcomes for incarcerated participants. This article describes and evaluates a set of semester-long University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative (DU PAI) workshops. Through a pretest-posttest evaluation design …

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