ABSTRACT
This chapter develops the final analytical tool to explain the behaviours and practices that generate a sense of justice. It introduces the conceptual notion of 'generative mechanisms' and then uses an iterative process to identify the particular mechanisms seen to be at work in responses to wrongdoing. A systematic method is needed to isolate such a set of the justice-generating mechanisms at work in responses to wrongdoing. A similar content analysis of the core restorative literature provides a picture of its practice's general defining features. 'Accountability' and 'responsibility' sit well together as generative mechanisms because they both address the threshold issue of the offender accepting blame worthiness. Censure refers to behaviour which publicly conveys disapproval and denunciation in order to achieve two discrete purposes. Apology and forgiveness, by contrast, are given little recognition in criminal justice responses, but have significant prominence in restorative justice literature.
