Environmental Crime and Restorative Justice: Justice as Meaningful Involvement

✍ Scribed by Mark Hamilton

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
• Edition: 1st ed. 2021
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Victims of Environmental Harm
References
2 Prosecution of Environmental Offending
Strict Liability
Motive Behind Offending
Guilty Pleas
Offenders
Reoffending
Victims
Offender and Victim Involvement in Prosecution
Sentencing of Environmental Offending
Fines
Reparative Orders
Publication Orders
Future References Orders
Restorative Justice Activity Orders
References
3 Justice as Procedure and Justice as Outcome
Justice as Procedure
Justice as Outcome
References
4 Restorative Justice
Definitions of Restorative Justice
Origins of Restorative Justice
Dissatisfaction with Modern Criminal Justice Systems
Intervention Points
Conference Participants
Central Tenets of Restorative Justice
Restorative Justice Conferencing as a Resolution Device
References
5 Restorative Justice in an Environmental Offending Context: Theory and Practice
Victoria (Australia)
New South Wales (Australia)
New Zealand
Canada
United States
United Kingdom
Transnational Crime
Environmental Harm
References
6 Restorative Justice Conferencing in an Environmental Offending Context: Case Studies
New Zealand Environmental Offending Context
The Use of Conferencing in a New Zealand Environmental Offending Context
Interflow: A Case Study
New South Wales Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Protection Context
Williams: A Case Study
Clarence Valley Council: A Case Study
References
7 The Benefits and Limitations of Restorative Justice Conferencing
Benefits of Restorative Justice Conferencing
Limitations of Restorative Justice Conferencing
References
8 Overcoming the Barriers to Restorative Justice Conferencing
A Legislative Framework
Judicial Oversight of Conferencing Outcomes
Stakeholder, Practitioner, and Judicial Knowledge
Suitability Criteria for Conferencing
Conference Facilitation and Follow Up
A Restorative Justice Unit Within the NSWLEC
Stakeholder Participation
References
9 Environmental Victims and Restorative Justice Conferencing
Victim Identification
Victim Voice
Selection of Victim Representatives (Human Guardians)
Nature of Victim Voices
References
10 Justice as Meaningful Involvement and Its Operationalisation Through Restorative Justice Conferencing
Recognition
Participation
Capability
(Ir)Relevance of Distribution
Meaningful Involvement
Operationalisation of Justice as Meaningful Involvement
Achievement of a Tripartite Conceptualisation of Justice
Concluding Remarks and Future Directions
References
Index