Environmental Crime and Restorative Justice

This book explores the use of&nbsp;restorative justice approaches in the context of environmental crimes.&nbsp;It critically assesses regular criminal justice approaches with regard to green crimes and explores restorative justice conferencing as an alternative. Focussing on&nbsp;justice approaches in Australia and New Zealand,&nbsp;it argues that&nbsp;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&nbsp;<i>meaningful involvement</i>, beyond that of<i>&nbsp;</i>fair&nbsp;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.