Scottish Justice Matters is a publication of the Scottish Consortium of Crime and Criminal Justice (SCCCJ). The Consortium is an alliance of organisations and individuals committed to better criminal justice policies. It works to stimulate well informed debate and to promote discussion and analysis of new ideas. It seeks a rational, humane, constructive and rights-based approach to questions of justice and crime in Scotland.

Following on from our March issue on re-imagining punishment, this issue looks at ‘re- imagining community justice’ in the light of arrangements for implementing the recent Community Justice (Scotland) Act.