Environmental Crime and Restorative Justice

This book explores the use ofrestorative 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 onjustice approaches in Australia and New Zealand,it argues thatcourt 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 ofmeaningful involvement, beyond that offairprocedure 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.