I'll start things off.
I'm going to focus on the rehabilitation piece, because I feel that so far I've heard a lot of conversation about the criminal justice approach—locking them up, and the bail issues—when we know the vast majority of survivors don't access those systems. Even in femicides, we find there may not have always been previous police involvement before the death, so I think it's essential that we take a different approach and actually work with folks who are at risk of becoming abusive, recognizing that there is a continuum of violence. We know that if someone's on a path, that path is going to go down a very difficult road and that we need to have interventions. Right now, we don't.
We tend to think primarily of men who do this as monsters or as “other”, but everyone in this room may know someone who is engaging in this kind of abusive or coercive behaviour when we look at the statistics. It is our friends, families and neighbours who are doing this. We need to have ways of creating new social norms that make this super not okay to do and to give people tools to call out their friends, family and neighbours to deal with this situation and to look at transformative justice and restorative justice.
Most people, and definitely in the university context and the students I work with, do not want to have criminal involvement. They are looking for alternative systems. I would love to see a robust program being developed in these areas. I know it's nuanced, but we can do it.