Justice
Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspectives, including the concepts of moral correctness based on ethics, rationality, law, religion, equity and fairness. Consequently, the application of justice differs in every culture. Early theories of justice were set out by the Ancient Greek philosophers Plato in his work The Republic, and Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics. Throughout history various theories have been established. Advocates of divine command theory have said that justice issues …
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UBC: UBC Press · 15 November 2024 English
a singular, even revolutionary, achievement. Uniquely within the realm of international criminal justice, the ICC Prosecutor can initiate investigations independently of any state’s wishes. Why would sovereign …
twenty-four hours’ notice and who inspired me to seek justice and peace. & To my wife, Eleanor Boersma Sarkany … Waterloo; in the Departments of History and Social Justice and Peace Studies as well as the Childhood and … Figà-Talamanca, the Secretary General of No Peace without Justice, a non-governmental organization intimately involved … Hall, Senior Legal Adviser of the International Justice Project at Amnesty International; William Schabas … heartfelt thanks to the members of No Peace without Justice: Niccolò Figà-Talamanca, Alison Smith, Greta Barbone …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2024 English
The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …
books written by academic historians on criminal justice, welfare, education, health, and other areas of … period re- cognised that intense need could with justice foster welfare fraud – but it is pervasive. Other … picture, and many local ratepayers complained (with justice) that they were little more than paupers themselves … policy. No single review of that literature can do justice to its intellectual, methodological, and substantive … of the poor, let alone human rights to social justice.62 As I shall argue in chapter 3, the establishment …
UBC: UBC Press · 15 November 2024 English
Pentecostal Preacher Woman makes sense of a woman that secular feminists and scholars regularly despised during her time, and largely ignored after it – and the book is a delight …
ciliation with Indigenous peoples, and efective social justice activism on issues including racism, marriage …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English
The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …
Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, to seeking justice and healing for the Survivors of resi- dential …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1829) both introduced and epitomized the great philosophical controversies of his age. His influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about …
to them.2 However, this assessment does little justice to Jacobi’s efforts. Indeed, Jacobi both introduced …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the …
books written by academic historians on criminal justice, welfare, education, health, and other areas of … to be made. It is simply not possi- ble to do justice to all aspects of the story and therefore, inevitably …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English
Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …
remembering survivors, families 215 clamours for justice, hidden, silenced, earthquake news, unmarked … recommendations, calls to action, and calls to justice that are largely unrealized. The author proposes …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
The COVID-19 virus was responsible for the deaths of over thirty-five thousand Canadians in its first two years alone. Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, it …
younger people – environment, housing, social justice, and economy – were also sidelined to health issues … panels in 2022 about the pandemic, one on social justice and one on ethics. Unless otherwise noted, all …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
The poetic memorialization of the Maghribī city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribī poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE. The …
the latter. This derogatory subtext doesn’t do justice to Baghdad’s reputation as “the fabled city of … oppressed them, fleeing into the world seeking justice. 15 Leaving their homes, furniture, and all that …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.
books written by academic historians on criminal justice, welfare, education, health, and other areas of … own industrial disputes with the Department of Justice, oftenIntroduction | 5 isolating hundreds of prisoners … were similar changes in the 1970s. Ministers for Justice in the mid-1970s called the prisoners’ organizations … (1908) and10 | Prisoners’ Bodies the Criminal Justice Administration Act (1914) which both describe … commentary of the Gardaí and the Department of Justice.28 How- ever, not all legitimate voices are equal …