This chapter draws on the restorative justice literature in order to identify and explore restorative justice's appeals to community. The notion of community involvement has been conceived and operationalised throughout time and across different contexts of restorative justice. The community typically has been involved in restorative justice programmes. As from a restorative justice perspective, crime affects a tripartite relationship between the offender, the victim and the community. By involving community representatives in restorative justice processes, scholars and practitioners claim to be involving a party that is more directly victimised by the occurrence of an offence than the remote and detached figures of state and society. Advocates of restorative justice often argue that community participation in criminal justice practices strengthens the social ties that empower the community to actually handle its own conflicts. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how restorative justice events may further strengthen social ties.