Finding Fairness

Author : Justin Jennings
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813057729

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Finding Fairness by Justin Jennings Pdf

In this ambitious work, Justin Jennings explores the origins, endurance, and elasticity of ideas about fairness and how these ideas have shaped the development of societies at critical moments over the last 20,000 years. He argues that humans have an innate expectation for fairness, a disposition that evolved during the Pleistocene era as a means of adapting to an unpredictable and often cruel climate. This deep-seated desire to do what felt right then impacted how our species transitioned into smaller territories, settled into villages, formed cities, expanded empires, and navigated capitalism. Paradoxically, the predilection to find fair solutions often led to entrenched inequities over time as cooperative groups grew in size, duration, and complexity. Using case studies ranging from Japanese hunter-gatherers to North African herders to protestors on Wall Street, this book offers a broad comparative reflection on the endurance of a universal human trait amidst radical social change. Jennings makes the case that if we acknowledge fairness as a guiding principle of society, we can better understand that the solutions to yesterday’s problems remain relevant to the global challenges that we face today. Finding Fairness is a sweeping, archaeologically grounded view of human history with thought-provoking implications for the contemporary world.

Author : Justin Jennings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813066743

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Finding Fairness by Justin Jennings Pdf

Providing a sweeping, archaeologically grounded view of human history, Justin Jennings explores the origins, endurance, and elasticity of ideas about fairness and how these ideas have shaped the development of societies at critical moments over the last 20,000 years.

Author : Cassia Spohn
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 0761987606

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How Do Judges Decide? by Cassia Spohn Pdf

The appropriate amount of punishment for a given crime is an issue that has been debated by scholars, philosophers and legal professionals since the beginning of civilizations. This book seeks to address this issue in all of its complexity by providing a comprehensive overview of the sentencing process in the United States. The book begins by discussing the overall concept of punishment and then proceeds to dissect individual aspects of punishment. Topics include: the sentencing process; responsibility of the judge; disparity and discrimination in sentencing; and sentencing reform. This book is an ideal text for introductory courses on the judicial system, criminal law, law and society. It can be an essential resource to help students understand patterns in the wide discretion and latitude given to judges when determining punishments within the framework of the United States judicial system.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Andrew Smith
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780615309958

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Fairness Compendium by Anonim Pdf

It is accepted practice that a dissenting stockholder is entitled to receive the intrinsic value of his share in a going concern. Additionally, while no one methodology represents the means by which to value what a stockholder is entitled to receive, it is clear that a liquidation value is not appropriate in most going concern valuations.

Author : Blair H. Sheppard,Roy J. Lewicki,John W. Minton
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106010651906

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Organizational Justice by Blair H. Sheppard,Roy J. Lewicki,John W. Minton Pdf

Some managers conduct inconsistant performance reviews, pay inequitable salaries, and dismiss employees arbitrarily. Concerns about justice are pervasive in the workplace: they arise whenever rules are made, interpreted, or applied to organizational activities and practices. In this analysis, the authors create a model for measuring justice in an organization, and show how to anticipate the responses that will follow if injustices persist. They examine contemporary organizational issues and introduce a new theory of the nature of justice in organizations.

Author : Caleb H Wheeler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000854848

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Fairness and the Goals of International Criminal Trials by Caleb H Wheeler Pdf

This book presents a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study into the various goals assigned to international criminal trials. It starts from the proposition that no hierarchy exists amongst the different goals meaning that trials should strive to achieve all of them in equal measure. This is made difficult by the fact that not all of these goals are compatible and the fulfilment of one may lead to others going unmet. Therefore, a balance must be found if the goals of trial are to be achieved at all. The book posits that fairness should serve as the guiding principle when weighing the different trial goals against one another. It is argued that without fairness international and internationalised criminal courts and tribunals lack legitimacy and without legitimacy they lack effectiveness. The book concludes that international criminal trials must adopt procedures that emphasise fairness to all of the parties and trial participants if they wish to accomplish any of the goals set for them. Each chapter is devoted to identifying and explaining a different trial goal, providing analysis of how that particular goal functions in conjunction with the other goals, and discussing the ways in which a fairness-oriented trial model will help achieve those goals. The book provides a dynamic understanding of the different trial goals and the importance of fairness in the trial process by drawing on research from a variety of different legal disciplines while also incorporating scholarship rooted in criminology, political theory, international relations, and psychology. The book will be essential reading for researchers, academics and professionals working in the areas of International Criminal Law, Public International Law and Transitional Justice.

Author : Animesh Mukherjee,Juhi Kulshrestha,Abhijnan Chakraborty,Srijan Kumar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789819971848

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Ethics in Artificial Intelligence: Bias, Fairness and Beyond by Animesh Mukherjee,Juhi Kulshrestha,Abhijnan Chakraborty,Srijan Kumar Pdf

This book is a collection of chapters in the newly developing area of ethics in artificial intelligence. The book comprises chapters written by leading experts in this area which makes it a one of its kind collections. Some key features of the book are its unique combination of chapters on both theoretical and practical aspects of integrating ethics into artificial intelligence. The book touches upon all the important concepts in this area including bias, discrimination, fairness, and interpretability. Integral components can be broadly divided into two segments – the first segment includes empirical identification of biases, discrimination, and the ethical concerns thereof in impact assessment, advertising and personalization, computational social science, and information retrieval. The second segment includes operationalizing the notions of fairness, identifying the importance of fairness in allocation, clustering and time series problems, and applications of fairness in software testing/debugging and in multi stakeholder platforms. This segment ends with a chapter on interpretability of machine learning models which is another very important and emerging topic in this area.

Author : Cassia Spohn
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781412961042

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How Do Judges Decide? by Cassia Spohn Pdf

How are sentences for Federal, State, and Local crimes determined in the United States? Is this process fairly and justly applied to all concerned? How have reforms affected the process over the last 25 years? This text for advanced undergraduate students in criminal justice programs seeks to answer these questions.

Author : Isaac Portilla
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532694950

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What Christ Said by Isaac Portilla Pdf

Relevant to nonconformist Christians, this book explores the transformative and often overlooked implications of Christ’s teachings. The author shows the possibility to still be surprised by the sayings of Christ—to rediscover “the Way” as a liberating path toward freedom. What Christ Said delivers an absorbing experience, rich in unexpected turns and insights to ponder and meditate into. Taking the New Testament text as the raw material, the author builds a coherent picture of Christ’s Way in which themes such as Fire, Life, Light, and Consciousness take the central stage. This work also offers a very personal contribution to scholarship: a provocative hermeneutics focused on truth and freedom, echoing the efforts of the apostles, early Christians, the fathers, and the mystics to reconcile the sayings of Jesus with their own experience—mystical and worldly. Infused with poetry and mysticism, yet without compromising theological and intellectual rigor, each chapter makes the reader a participant in explorations evocative of a Christ-like apprehension of life and reality. This inquiry reflects mental and emotional patterns that keep us bound, at the same time providing a path through which the Christian Way could be inspiring—in an original and sometimes radical manner.

Author : Mark Freeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 052161564X

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Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness by Mark Freeman Pdf

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Author : Joe Obidiegwu
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781622879809

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Finding Your Way To Heaven Without a Smartphone by Joe Obidiegwu Pdf

In efforts to understand the human being, our history, and our future, the story takes the reader through three different continents, gleaning cultural well-being and malaise of different races. The book highlights the common bond between all human races, while exploring reasons for the perceived outer differences our modern world hurtles forward, driven as it is by powerful technological engines of change, characterized by an obsessive and often idolatrous worship of intelligence, ruminative men and women all around the world ponder in the silence of their soul the fate of humanity. In the West, depression, suicide, incomprehensible mass shootings and myriad psychological disorders litter our cultural landscape, while abject poverty ravage developing nations. We have become highly intelligent beings that cannot solve our problems, yet we inhabit a natural world created out of wisdom and much of that wisdom is not reflected in our thoughts and lifestyle Modern man's obsession with intelligence and the material world has left him a stranger to spiritual things and wisdom. Consequently, humanity is left vulnerable to inexplicable and undiagnosed suffering. in an attempt to diagnose what ails modern man, this book presents a convincing and thought-provoking argument that we have forgotten who we are, and in so doing, have built a world terribly out of order with our divine nature. By walking the reader through my Nigerian upbringing and subsequent arrival in the West, I reveal some timeless wisdom that I believe can serve as a cure for some of the things that trouble us today. This inimitable book lights a path directing us again to who we truly are. It is a timely and deft clarion call to all of us. Finding Your Way to Heaven Without a Smartphone is a mixture of autobiography, cultural inquiry and philosophy. Joseph Obidiegwu, an Igbo from Nigeria, has lived on three continents. He has the necessary perspective and wisdom to look at the world's masquerade from different angles. There is no romanticization of traditional African village life, nor is there blind acceptance of the hectic to and fro of modern life on planet Smartphone. Don Burness, Ph.D. Professor of Literature at Franklin Pierce College Author of Echoes of the Sunbird and Wanasema Keywords: Inimitable, Interesting, Insightful, Autobiographical, Philosophical, Spiritual, Cultural, Thought-Provoking, Inspiring, Life-Changing

Author : Oscar Vilarroya,Scott Atran,Arcadi Navarro,Kevin Ochsner,Adolf Tobeña
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781573317603

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Values, Empathy, and Fairness across Social Barriers, Volume 1167 by Oscar Vilarroya,Scott Atran,Arcadi Navarro,Kevin Ochsner,Adolf Tobeña Pdf

What makes suicide bombers capable of sacrificing themselves for a belief? Why do members of one race believe they are superior to another? How do subliminal messages affect the outcome of political polling? Using the tools of neuroscience and social science, researchers have learned a great deal about the brain's role in human behavior and interactions. This volume is the proceedings of the first Barcelona Social Brain Conference, which was organized by the New York Academy of Sciences, the Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació, the Càtedra UAB "el cervell social," and the European Science Foundation. Through a neuroscientific lens, the invited chapters examine the human qualities of empathy, sacred values, and cooperation, and focus on the ways in which what they learn can be used to understand human conflicts. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee to Review Research on Police Policy and Practices
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309084338

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Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee to Review Research on Police Policy and Practices Pdf

Because police are the most visible face of government power for most citizens, they are expected to deal effectively with crime and disorder and to be impartial. Producing justice through the fair, and restrained use of their authority. The standards by which the public judges police success have become more exacting and challenging. Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing explores police work in the new century. It replaces myths with research findings and provides recommendations for updated policy and practices to guide it. The book provides answers to the most basic questions: What do police do? It reviews how police work is organized, explores the expanding responsibilities of police, examines the increasing diversity among police employees, and discusses the complex interactions between officers and citizens. It also addresses such topics as community policing, use of force, racial profiling, and evaluates the success of common police techniques, such as focusing on crime "hot spots." It goes on to look at the issue of legitimacyâ€"how the public gets information about police work, and how police are viewed by different groups, and how police can gain community trust. Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing will be important to anyone concerned about police work: policy makers, administrators, educators, police supervisors and officers, journalists, and interested citizens.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B5146622

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The Federal Employee Fairness Act--S. 404 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs Pdf

Author : Kari Jones
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459810457

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A Fair Deal by Kari Jones Pdf

"Jones catches the beauty of fair trade in the way it strengthens morale and human dignity for all those engaged."—Kirkus Reviews Fair trade is not about spending more money or buying more stuff. It's about helping producers in developing countries get a fair price for their goods. A Fair Deal: Shopping for Social Justice provides a history of trade, explaining what makes trade systems unfair and what we can do about it. By examining the ways in which our global trade systems value some people over others, the book illustrates areas in which fair trade practices can help families all around the world and suggests ways to get involved in making the world a more equitable place.