RT Article
T1 Restorative Justice and the regulatory state in South African townships
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 42
IS 3
SP 514
OP 533
A1 Roche, Declan
LA English
YR 2002
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639315136
AB In townships across South Africa the Community Peace Program, based in Cape Town, is helping local communities establish peace committees. This article argues that through their commitment to a consensus-based, reparative approach to dealing with crime, peace committees reflect restorative processes and values. In other respects, peace committees are quite different to most restorative justice programmes in England, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. One such difference is their independence from the formal criminal justice system, which this article places within the context of the increasing privatization of policing and governance more generally. Peace committees are also novel for their attempt to address the structural problems underlying crime, the wide range of crimes they attempt to address, and specific aspects of the process used for meetings between victims, offenders and community members
K1 Restorative Justice
K1 Südafrika
K1 Gemeinde
K1 Grundlagenfragen
K1 Internationaler Vergleich
DO 10.1093/bjc/42.3.514