The criminal justice system has its formal power fairly consolidated and has traditionally
emphasized a procedural model to ensure fairness. Community justice advocates
decentralization of this power, in part to increase the system's legitimacy in the eyes of
the public, but more importantly to increase the effectiveness of local level collective action. In so doing, community justice raises the specter of Montana militias and Ku Klux
Klans. Community justice has yet to specify the framework for a community's accountability
to broader standards of the culture.