Full Description
This book explores the use of restorative justice approaches in the context of environmental crimes. It critically assesses regular criminal justice approaches with regard to green crimes and explores restorative justice conferencing as an alternative. Focussing on justice approaches in Australia and New Zealand, it argues that court processes following environmental offending provide minimal to no offender and victim voice, interaction, and input, rendering them invisible. It proposes a third measure of justice - that of meaningful involvement, beyond that of fair procedure and outcome. It suggests the use of restorative justice conferencing, a facilitated dialogue between stakeholders to crime or conflict, as a vehicle to operationalise and achieve justice as meaningful involvement. This book speaks to those interested in green criminology, victimology and environmental law.
Contents
1.Victims of Environmental Harm.- 2.Prosecution of Environmental Offending.- 3.Justice as Procedure and Justice as Outcome.- 4.Restorative Justice.- 5.Restorative Justice in an Environmental Offending Context: Theory and Practice.- 6.Restorative Justice Conferencing in an Environmental Offending Context: Case Studies.- 7.The Benefits and Limitations of Restorative Justice Conferencing.- 8.Overcoming the Barriers to Restorative Justice Conferencing.- 9.Environmental Victims and Restorative Justice Conferencing.- 10.Justice as Meaningful Involvement and its Operationalisation through Restorative Justice Conferencing.
