Accountability in Restorative Justice [Paperback]

Many countries have recently established restorative justice programmes, in which those affected by a crime attend meetings in the hope of achieving the ideals of reparation, reconciliation and reintegration. To answer concerns that these meetings may degenerate into 'kangaroo courts' in which participants bully and humiliate each other, this book draws upon extensive fieldwork to explore the nature, function and effectiveness of the accountability within this kind of informal justice.

1. The Rise and Risks of Restorative Justice
2. The Meaning of Restorative Justice and Accountability
3. Methods and Overview of Programmes
4. Deliberative Accountability in Restorative Meetings
5. Multiple Uses of Deliberative Accountability
6. Supporting Deliberative Accountability: Neglected Accountability Methods
7. Supporting Deliberative Accountability: The Role of Traditonal Accountability
8. Semi-Formal Justice: Combining Informal and Formal Justice
Appendix A: Case Studies
Appendix B: Observations
Appendix C: Interviewees
References
Index

Declan Rocheis Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He gained a Ph.D. from the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University, Canberra.