Community accountability explained
Community Accountability isa community-based strategy, rather than a police/prison-based strategy, to address violence including domestic violence, sexual violence, and child abuse.Community Accountability is a process in which a community – a group of friends, a family, a church, a workplace, an apartment complex, a neighborhood, etc. – work together to do the following things:
- Create and affirm values and practices that resist abuse and oppression and encourage safety, support, and accountability
- Develop strategies to address abusive behavior of community members and help them to transform their behavior
- Work on the evolution of the community and all its members, to transform the political conditions that reinforce oppression and violence
- Provide safety and support to community members who are violently targeted with respect to their self-determination[1]
See also
References
- http://www.incite-national.org/page/community-accountability INCITE! on Community Accountability
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