Accountability in Restorative Justice

Many countries have recently established restorative justice programs, 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.

Declan Roche is Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.