The Dialogue Of Justice

Author : James S. Fishkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300051124

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The Dialogue of Justice by James S. Fishkin Pdf

People around the world are agitating for democracy and individual rights, but there is no consensus on a theory of liberal democracy that might guide them. What are the first principles of a just society? What political theory should shape public policy in such a society? In this book, James S. Fishkin offers a new basis for answering these questions by proposing the ideal of a "self-reflective society" - a political culture in which citizens are able to decide their own fate through unconstrained dialogue. Fishkin offers a comprehensive critique of liberal political theories that do not satisfy the requirements for a self-reflective society. He then explains his own theory of liberalism, showing that the freely self-examining society he advocates can provide the key to issues of political legitimacy and social justice. Fishkin proposes practical applications of his theory that would lead to more participatory democracy. Among these are deliberative opinion polls that would allow ordinary citizens to explore issues directly with candidates before elections, and vouchers that would allow them to organize representation for their interests. Fishkin examines a broad range of topics from the fresh perspective of a self-reflective society: utility and its limits, justice between generations, conflicting ideals of democracy, equal opportunity, the connections between theory and public policy, the notion of moral progress, and the bases for political obligation. His book makes a new contribution to central debates in moral, political, and legal philosophy.

Author : Dr. Mark Umbreit, PhD,Dr. Marilyn Peterson Armour, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826122590

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Restorative Justice Dialogue by Dr. Mark Umbreit, PhD,Dr. Marilyn Peterson Armour, PhD Pdf

"Although Restorative Justice Dialogue is not a long text, it is an impressive achievement. Each chapter is rich in content, as Umbreit and Armour blend theory, practice, empirical research, and case studies to discuss a range of topics from specific models of restorative justice to the role of facilitators in restorative justice dialogue." --PsycCRITIQUES "Restorative Justice Dialogue presents a thorough and comprehensive explanation and assessment of the current state of restorative justice in the world." --Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics "[A]n evidence-based description of the history, practices, and future of restorative dialogue that is informed by the values and principles of law, social work, and spirituality. This is an impressive achievement." --Daniel W. Van NessPrison Fellowship International, Washington, DC "I know of no other book that provides such a complete review of the various and emerging restorative practices and the phenomenal growth of this movement worldwide." --David Karp, PhDSkidmore College "The combination of two outstanding and widely recognized restorative justice researchers, practitioners, and authors has produced a text that is destined to be a major resource." --Katherine Van Wormer, PhDUniversity of Northern Iowa This book provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding restorative justice and its application worldwide to numerous social issues. Backed by reviews of empirical research and case examples, the authors describe the core restorative justice practices, including victim-offender mediation, family group conferencing, and peacemaking circles, as well as cultural considerations, emerging variations in a wide variety of settings, and the crucial role of the facilitator. Together, authors Umbreit and Armour bring the latest empirical research and clinical wisdom to those invested in the research and practice of restorative justice. Key topics: Spiritual components of restorative justice Victim-offender mediation Family group conferencing Peacemaking circles Victim-offender dialogue in crimes of severe violence Dimensions of culture in restorative justice Humanistic mediation Application to domestic violence, higher education, and incarceration

Author : Theo Gavrielides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000449938

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Power, Race, and Justice by Theo Gavrielides Pdf

We are living in a world where power abuse has become the new norm, as well as the biggest, silent driver of persistent inequalities, racism and human rights violations. The COVID-19 socio-economic consequences can only be compared with those that followed World War II. As humanity is getting to grips with them, this timely book challenges current thinking, while creating a much needed normative and practical framework for revealing and challenging the power structures that feed our subconscious feelings of despair and defeatism. Structured around the four concepts of power, race, justice and restorative justice, the book uses empirical new data and normative analysis to reconstruct the way we prevent power abuse and harm at the inter-personal, inter-community and international levels. This book offers new lenses, which allow us to view power, race and justice in a modern reality where communities have been silenced, but through restorative justice are gaining voice. The book is enriched with case studies written by survivors, practitioners and those with direct experiences of power abuse and inequality. Through robust research methodologies, Gavrielides’s new monograph reveals new forms of slavery, while creating a new, philosophical framework for restorative punishment through the acknowledgement of pain and the use of catharsis for internal transformation and individual empowerment. This is a powerful and timely book that generates much needed hope. Through a multi-disciplinary dialogue that uses philosophy and critical theory, social sciences, criminology, law, psychology and human rights, the book opens new avenues for practitioners, researchers and policy makers internationally.

Author : B. Singh Bolaria,Sean Patrick Hier,Daniel Lett
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015078793612

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Racism and Justice by B. Singh Bolaria,Sean Patrick Hier,Daniel Lett Pdf

Racism has been an ongoing issue for centuries. Despite the efforts that have been made, from implementation of laws to teaching tolerance and acceptance in school, this problem still exists today. The essays in this volume seek to explore the prospect for post-raciality.

Author : G. Lowes Dickinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317340287

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Justice and Liberty by G. Lowes Dickinson Pdf

First published in 1908, this book takes the form of a discussion between Henry Martin- a professor, Charles Stuart- a banker, and Sir John Harington- a gentleman of leisure, on politics and civilisation. The speakers discuss many topics ranging from forms of society (such as oligarchy or democracy), to the institution of marriage, to the necessity of government.

Author : Giovanni R. F. Ferrari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9780521839631

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The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic by Giovanni R. F. Ferrari Pdf

This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.

Author : Lorraine S. Amstutz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781680992526

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The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing by Lorraine S. Amstutz Pdf

Victim offender dialogues have been developed as a way to hold offenders accountable to the person they have harmed and to give victims a voice about how to put things right. It is a way of acknowledging the importance of the relationship, of the connection which crime creates. Granted, the relationship is a negative one, but there is a relationship. Amstutz has been a practitioner and a teacher in the field for more than 20 years.

Author : Mark Kingwell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271041476

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A Civil Tongue by Mark Kingwell Pdf

This book is about a widely shared desire: the desire among citizens for a vibrant and effective social discourse of legitimation. It therefore begins with the conviction that what political philosophy can provide citizens is not further theories of the good life but instead directions for talking about how to justify the choices they make—or, in brief, "just talking." As part of the general trend away from the aridity of Kantian universalism in political philosophy, thinkers as diverse as Bruce Ackerman, Jürgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Richard Rorty have taken a "dialogic turn" that seeks to understand the determination of principles of justice as a cooperative task, achieved in some kind of social dialogue among real citizens. In one way or another, however, each of these different variations on the dialogic model fail to provide fully satisfactory answers, Mark Kingwell shows. Drawing on their strengths, he presents another model he calls "justice as civility," which makes original use of the popular literature on etiquette and work in sociolinguistics to develop a more adequate theory of dialogic justice.

Author : Plato
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781775413660

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The Republic by Plato Pdf

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other things.

Author : Mary Zournazi,Rowan Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350090385

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Justice and Love by Mary Zournazi,Rowan Williams Pdf

How do we see and act justly in the world? In what ways can we ethically respond to social and economic crisis? How do we address the desperation that exists in the new forms of violence and atrocity? These are all questions at the heart of Justice and Love, a philosophical dialogue on how to imagine and act in a more just world by theologian Rowan Williams and philosopher Mary Zournazi. Looking at different religious and philosophical traditions, Williams and Zournazi argue for the re-invigoration and enriching of the language of justice and, by situating justice alongside other virtues, they extend our everyday vocabularies on what is just. Drawing on examples ranging from the Paris Attacks, the Syrian War, and the European Migrant Crisis to Brexit and the US Presidential elections, Williams and Zournazi reflect on justice as a process: a condition of being, a responsiveness to others, rather than a cold distribution of fact. By doing so, they explore the love and patience needed for social healing and the imagination required for new ways of relating and experiencing the world.

Author : James S. Fishkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300066392

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The Dialogue of Justice by James S. Fishkin Pdf

Offering a critique of liberal political theories that do not satisfy the requirements for a self-reflective society, this work argues for a new theory of liberalism, claiming that the freely self-examining society it advocates provides the key to issues of political legitimacy and social justice.

Author : Plato
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788026897774

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The Republic by Plato Pdf

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically. In the book's dialogue, Socrates discusses with various Athenians and foreigners about the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man. They consider the natures of existing regimes and then propose a series of different, hypothetical cities in comparison, culminating in Kallipolis, a hypothetical city-state ruled by a philosopher king. They also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the role of the philosopher and of poetry in society.

Author : Mark S. Umbreit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1881798453

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Facing Violence by Mark S. Umbreit Pdf

Evaluates pioneering programs that employ mediation/dialogue techniques in homicide, rape, and other cases involving extreme violence. It documents the positive impact that these programs have had not only on the lives of victims and offenders, but also on restitution payments, recidivism, and costs.

Author : Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice
Publisher : [Montréal] : Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice = Institut canadien d'administration de la justice
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Judicial impact statements
ISBN : 2894001797

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Dialogue about justice by Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice Pdf

Author : René Provost,Colleen Sheppard
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789400747104

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Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism by René Provost,Colleen Sheppard Pdf

Human rights have transformed the way in which we conceive the place of the individual within the community and in relation to the state in a vast array of disciplines, including law, philosophy, politics, sociology, geography. The published output on human rights over the last five decades has been enormous, but has remained tightly bound to a notion of human rights as dialectically linking the individual and the state. Because of human rights’ dogged focus on the state and its actions, they have very seldom attracted the attention of legal pluralists. Indeed, some may have viewed the two as simply incompatible or relating to wholly distinct phenomena. This collection of essays is the first to bring together authors with established track records in the fields of legal pluralism and human rights, to explore the ways in which these concepts can be mutually reinforcing, delegitimizing, or competing. The essays reveal that there is no facile conclusion to reach but that the question opens avenues which are likely to be mined for years to come by those interested in how human rights can affect the behaviour of individuals and institutions.