ABSTRACT
This chapter sets the context for the book in exploring the widely used but often contested terms of ‘community’, ‘justice’ and ‘community justice’. It explores the different ways in which these terms are used in other jurisdictions as well as in Australia. The chapter sets out how community justice might be understood in Australia and how it might offer something to the current ways in which criminal justice is understood and conceptualised. It is particularly important for Indigenous people that there is an understanding of community responses within Australian criminal justice policy and practice.
