149: [Marlee Liss] Meaningful Justice
What Came Next
Broken Cycle Media
4.4 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Content Warning: rape, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.
Marlee Liss is a survivor,award-winning speaker, victim advocate, somatic educator, and author from Toronto, Canada. She grew up in the arts, but pivoted to social work when she began her college career. It was in Marlee’s junior year when her life changed forever; she became the victim of a sexual assault and entered an arduous journey in the criminal justice system as a result. However, three years into that battle for justice, Marlee found an additional path: restorative justice. According to Walden University, quote “Punitive justice is the idea of punishing criminals for their crimes against society or the legal system itself, and is the traditional method of handling crime in the United States. Restorative justice seeks to bring victims of crimes into the justice process. Criminals are asked to take accountability for their wrongdoing by facing those they have wronged... The theory is that criminals owe more than a debt to society—they owe a debt to specific people,” end quote. The two processes are not always mutually exclusive. It’s important to note that criminal justice can occur tandemly with restorative justice practices. The Broken Cycle Media team is so very grateful for Marlee's powerful perspective advocacy and time and energy in sharing in this episode.
Resources:
Survivors for Justice Reform:
https://www.survivors4justicereform.com/
Dr. Alissa Ackerman:
https://www.alissaackerman.com/
Marlee's Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/marleeliss/
Marlee's TikTok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@marleeliss
Survivors for Justice Reform on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/survivors4justicereform/
National Association of Community and Restorative Justice:
https://www.nacrj.org/
NACRJ Restorative Justice Map:
https://members.nacrj.org/rj-map/FindStartsWith?term=%23%21
Sources:
Statistics: The Criminal Justice System - Rainn, rainn.org/facts-statistics-the-scope-of-the-problem/statistics-the-criminal-justice-system/
“What Is Restorative Justice?” Walden University, www.waldenu.edu/programs/criminal-justice/resource/what-Is-restorative-justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you to scamfluensers and Lola Blankets for sponsoring this episode. |
| 0:05.9 | What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:10.3 | Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering, such as emotional, physical, and sexual |
| 0:15.4 | violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder. I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor. If you're in need of |
| 0:23.8 | support, please visit Something Was Wrong.com forward slash resources for a list of non-profit |
| 0:29.9 | organizations that can help. Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own, |
| 0:35.3 | and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media. |
| 0:40.8 | Resources and source material are linked |
| 0:43.1 | in the episode notes. |
| 0:44.7 | Thank you so much for listening. Marley Liss is a survivor, award-winning speaker, victim advocate, somatic educator, and author from Toronto, Canada. |
| 1:19.8 | She grew up in the arts, but pivoted to social work when she began her college career. |
| 1:25.0 | But it was in Marley's junior year when her life changed forever. She became |
| 1:30.3 | the victim of a sexual assault and entered an arduous journey in the criminal justice system as a |
| 1:36.1 | result. However, three years into that battle for justice, Marley found an additional path, restorative |
| 1:43.7 | justice. |
| 1:45.1 | According to Walden University, quote, |
| 1:48.1 | punitive justice is the idea of punishing criminals for their crimes against society or the legal system itself, |
| 1:55.4 | and is the traditional method of handling crime in the United States. |
| 2:00.2 | Restorative justice seeks to bring victims of crime |
| 2:03.5 | into the justice process. In restorative justice, criminals are asked to take accountability for |
| 2:09.7 | their wrongdoing by facing those they've wronged. The theory is that criminals owe more than a debt |
| 2:15.9 | to society. They owe a debt to specific people, |
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