Community accountability
Community Accountability ( engl. , About, shared responsibility ') is a communal - not police - and prison-based strategy on violence, including domestic and sexual violence and child abuse to respond. It aims for a community - a group of friends, a family, a community, a workplace, an apartment complex, the neighborhood, etc. - to work together in a process to achieve the following:
- Values and methods that oppose violence and oppression and promote, develop and consolidate security, support and responsibility.
- Develop strategies to respond to objectionable behavior by community members and to help them take responsibility for and change their actions.
- Work to develop the community and all of its members to change the political conditions that favor oppression and violence.
- Provide security and support to community members who have been violently assaulted while respecting their self-determination .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Social Justice Journal Issue on "Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence"