community justice
Neighborhood-based conflict resolution
Community justice refers to approaches that address crime and conflict through local participation rather than traditional court systems.
It emphasizes repairing harm, restoring relationships, and involving affected community members in the resolution process.
Community justice programs might include neighborhood mediation, restorative justice circles, or local accountability boards: The vandalism case was handled through community justice rather than prosecution.
- mediationIntervention to resolve conflict
- peer mediationStudent-led dispute resolution
- restitutionRestoring what was lost
- neighborhood watchResident-led area surveillance
- truth commissionsOfficial bodies investigating past atrocities
anti-discrimination policies · healing circles · talking circles · making amends · treaty rights · public forums · grassroots organizing · dispute resolution · peacemaking · reconciliation · public awareness campaigns · accountability · reparation · stakeholder engagement · dialogue · town hall meetings · forgiveness · tribunal
- restorative justicehealing circle, restorative practices, healing circles, peacemaking, reparation
- African lawconstitutional court, indigenous law, high court, court of appeal, attorney general
- Latin American law
- vigilantismvigilante, vigilantism, lynch mob, lynching, posse
- Inuit lawelder councils, dispute resolution, conflict mediation, consensus building, banishment
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
community justiceincarceration
Confinement in jail
imprisonment · mass incarceration · correctional facilities · institutionalization · jailing
community justiceretributive justice
Punishment proportional to offense
retribution · vengeance · mandatory minimums · zero tolerance · harsh punishment
community justiceincarceration
Confinement in jail
imprisonment · penal system · correctional system · prison · jail