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Getting to accountability in restorative justice

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posted on 2025-04-30, 02:08 authored by WR Wood, Masahiro Suzuki
Offender accountability is a primary goal of restorative justice meetings. Yet existing research on restorative justice demonstrates wide variation in how accountability is defined in research and achieved in practice. Empirical research also shows offenders sometimes struggle with providing information or demonstrating culpability, and victims are sometimes not satisfied with offender accounts or view offenders as justifying their behavior. Toward these problems of “getting to accountability,” we set forth a definition that is comprised of three phases–the giving, taking, and making of accountability–primary to how offenders demonstrate and how victims and others perceive accountability in restorative justice meetings. Following this, we discuss implications for research and practice.

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Volume

19

Issue

7

Start Page

1400

End Page

1423

Number of Pages

24

eISSN

1556-4991

ISSN

1556-4886

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Additional Rights

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Language

en

Peer Reviewed

  • Yes

Open Access

  • Yes

Era Eligible

  • Yes

Journal

Victims and Offenders

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