Author : Elizabeth S Scott
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674043367
What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? In this book, two leading scholars in law and adolescent development argue that juvenile justice should be grounded in the best available psychological science, which shows that adolescence is a distinctive state of cognitive and emotional development. Although adolescents are not children, they are also not fully responsible adults.
Author : Vincenzo Guido
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781641379915
In the criminal justice system, people are cast into polar positions on the good-bad axis: good guys and bad guys. Prosecutors, who wield considerable power and influence in the enforcement of our laws, are almost universally cast as good guys. Seldom is there accountability when they are, in fact, not always good. Rethinking Justice: Inside America's Movement for Prosecution Reform introduces a newly minted generation of prosecutors, intent on holding the entire system accountable and changing the way we handle crime in America. Explore how a prevailing philosophy of retributive over restorative justice has contributed to mass incarceration. Discover what happens when civil servants go beyond filling prisons to address systemic injustices. Meet Portsmouth Commonwealth Attorney Stephanie Morales, whose investment in crime prevention, community building, and restorative justice could provide a model for widespread reform. Through stories and insights from district attorneys, legal scholars, and survivors of a perilously flawed system, Rethinking Justice imagines the tough-on-crime D.A. role recast as a "progressive prosecutor." Is this political paradox even possible?
Author : Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0830887733
The United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. Exploring the history and foundations of mass incarceration, Dominique Gilliard examines Christianity’s role in its evolution and expansion, assessing justice in light of Scripture, and showing how Christians can pursue justice that restores and reconciles.
Author : Richard H. Bell
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780739122297
Rethinking Justice lifts up and restores an idea of justice found in classical writers as well as more recent thinkers. Justice deals with righting wrongs and restoring peace to individuals and communities. We have lost sight of this and must return to it in mind and practice.
Author : Rita Shackel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319778900
This book draws together established and emerging scholars from sociology, law, history, political science and education to examine the global and local issues in the pursuit of gender justice in post-conflict settings. This examination is especially important given the disappointing progress made to date in spite of concerted efforts over the last two decades. With contributions from both academics and practitioners working at national and international levels, this work integrates theory and practice, examining both global problems and highly contextual case studies including Kenya, Somalia, Peru, Afghanistan and DRC. The contributors aim to provide a comprehensive and compelling argument for the need to fundamentally rethink global approaches to gender justice.
Author : M. Naughton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 2007-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 023059896X
Drawing on Foucauldian theory and 'social harm' paradigms, Naughton offers a radical redefinition of miscarriages of justice from a critical perspective. This book uncovers the limits of the entire criminal justice process and challenges the dominant perception that miscarriages of justices are rare and exceptional cases of wrongful imprisonment.
Author : Bill Bigelow
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0942961285
Rethinking Globalization offers an extensive collection of readings and source material on critical global issues.
Author : Charles Sampford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317064119
General principles of law have made, and are likely further to make, a significant contribution to our understanding of the constituent elements of global justice. Dealing extensively with global headline issues of peace, security and justice, this book explores justice arising in specific areas of international law, as well as underlying theories of justice from political science and international relations. With contributions from leading academics and practitioners, the book adopts an interdisciplinary approach. Covering issues such as international humanitarian law, and examining the significance of non-state actors for the development of international law, the collection concludes with the complex question of how best to rethink aspects of international justice. The lessons derived from this research will have wide implications for both developed and emerging nation-states in rethinking sensitive issues of international law and justice. As such, this book will be of interest to academics and practitioners interested in international law, environmental law, human rights, ethics, international relations and political theory.
Author : Michael Charney
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
Page : pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780942961096
An anthology of more than 60 articles documenting the history and the how-tos of social justice unionism. Together, they describe the growing movement to forge multiracial alliances with communities to defend and transform public education.
Author : John Ernest
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807898503
What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naive concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American history, and the marginalization of important strains of black scholarship. With this book, he creates a new and just retelling of African American literary history that neither ignores nor transcends racial history. Ernest revisits the work of nineteenth-century writers and activists such as Henry "Box" Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Wilson, William Wells Brown, and Sojourner Truth, demonstrating that their concepts of justice were far more radical than those imagined by most white sympathizers. He sheds light on the process of reading, publishing, studying, and historicizing this work during the twentieth century. Looking ahead to the future of the field, Ernest offers new principles of justice that grant fragmented histories, partial recoveries, and still-unprinted texts the same value as canonized works. His proposal is both a historically informed critique of the field and an invigorating challenge to present and future scholars.
