Community Justice
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Chapter 22
Community
Justice
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Community Justice
Definition of Community Justice
A Philosophy of Justice
A Strategy of Justice
Programs
How Community Justice Differs from
Criminal Justice
Neighborhoods
Problem Solving
Restoration
Justice Reinvestment
Overview of Differences
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Community Justice Cont.
Arguments for Community Justice
Crime and Crime Problems Are
Local
Crime Fighting Improves the Quality
of Life
Proactive Rather Than Reactive
Strategies Are Needed
Problems of Community Justice
Impingement on Individual Rights
Social Inequality
Increasing Criminal Justice Costs
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“community justice”
a
model of justice that
emphasizes reparation to the
victim and the community,
approaching crime from a
problem-solving perspective,
and citizen involvement in crime
prevention
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“collective efficacy”
mutual
trust among neighbors,
combined with willingness to
intervene on behalf of the
common good, especially to
supervise children and maintain
public order
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community justice
components
community justice
a philosophy
• more ambitious
than traditional
view of criminal
justice;
• concerned with
quality of life in
community
a strategy
• community
policing
• environmental
crime
• restorative justice
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“restorative
justice”
system of justice that seeks to
restore the victim, offender and the
community to a level of functioning
that existed prior to the criminal
event; seeks to repair the damage
done (to all parties) by the offender’s
criminal act
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restorative justice approach
typical programs
crime mapping
citizen advisory groups re: crime priorities
citizen partnerships with justice agencies
justice actors are organized locally to
enable more effective strategy formation
citizens and victims involved in sentencing
broad use of offender community service
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“What Do They Want?”
The
Myth: People in poor
communities want “bad guys” to be
taken off their streets and sent to
prison
The Reality: People in poor
communities tell researchers that
they want to be “safe,” but they also
want their family members, even the
ones involved in crime, to not have
to go to prison
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distinguishing community justice
from criminal justice
distinguishing
features
focus is on
neighborhood
(not legal jur.)
focus is on
restoration
(not retribution)
focus is on
problem-solving
(not adversarial)
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arguments FOR
community justice
Crime
crime affects quality of life of the
neighborhood; it is the neighborhood that is
best positioned to and has the greatest stake
in addressing crime
Crime
and crime problems are local
fighting improves the quality of life
effort is to break the grip that crime has on the
community
Proactive
is better than reactive strategies
preventing crime is better than reacting to the
damage it does to the victim and community
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arguments AGAINST
community justice
it
jeopardizes individual rights
tendency toward vigilantism?
equality before the law vs. different community
approaches to crime control
state’s role in criminal justice decreases
it
exacerbates social inequality
it
community resources & political influence vary
communities with biggest need (worst crime
problem) have fewest resources
requires funds that are not available
traditional criminal justice increasingly costly
who pays for new focus? localities can’t afford
must shift costs within existing budgets
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