The Social Organization of Mediation in Nonindustrial Societies: Implications for Informal Community Justice in America **Parts of this chapter were presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 1979, and the American Society of Criminology, November 1979. I am grateful for the comments of Richard Abel, Donald Black, David Jacobson, Marguerite Robinson, Susan Silbey, and Barbara Yngvesson on earlier drafts of the chapter.