ABSTRACT
This chapter draws a narrative picture of how a sense of justice is generated in restorative processes. It is based on the views of those involved in such practices as to which generative mechanisms their programs use to engage this sense of justice. The following narrative thread of responses concerning each of the generative mechanisms emerged from a series of interviews conducted with restorative justice practitioners and with others such as lawyers, judges or magistrates either involved directly in the programs or who had knowledge of their outcomes as part of a formal criminal justice sentencing process. Overt censuring in terms of 'publicly denouncing harmful behaviour' is not seen as a core justice-generating mechanism. Similar to accountability, deliberately overt censure was not reported as a core justice-promoting activity in restorative practices. It was consistently reported that accountability in the formal sense of being 'held accountable' was not part of the restorative process.
