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What is community justice? Are there characteristics of a practice that must be present for a strategy to be deemed community justice? What are these qualities? How do you define community justice? How is community justice different from traditional criminal justice frameworks? Which approach would you prefer if you were: a victim of a criminal event, the perpetrator of a criminal event, living in a neighborhood with high crime rates, living in a neighborhood with low crime rates?​


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