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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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic …

of equity and justice in their approaches to sound. Brandon LaBelle’s Acoustic Justice insists that that an important part of sonic justice work remains, at a basic level, diversifying the soundscape and new forms of social movement and articulation.”9 Justice not only demands a recalibration of the acoustic Press, 2003), 15. 9 Brandon LaBelle, Acoustic Justice: Listening, Performativity, and the Work of Reorientation


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

about for a reason, perhaps as a kind of divine justice.”21 Even in the modern era, this moral geometry The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster: Public Betrayal, Justice Denied. Toronto: James Lorimer, 2018. Cooter, stood in stark contrast40 Samira Saramo to the justice system’s regular conclusion that workplace accidents


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

books written by academic historians on criminal justice, welfare, education, health, and other areas of 11and its abuses not only helped bring about some justice for survivors, including reconnection with extant and their Families, which have campaigned for justice over many years. I know that the House will join received no acknowledgement of their trau- ma, nor justice in their lifetimes. At the same time, we also identify hinterland between the logics of the criminal justice system and the more humane impulses of social welfare


DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 July 2024 English

From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …

committed to God and Rastafarian notions of peace, justice, and righteousness: personal qualities and values


NSP: New Society Publishers · 25 June 2024 English

Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a practical approach, providing clear and achievable methods to bridge …

............................... 141 Criminal Justice Solutions ................................... were profoundly important steps toward racial justice, structural racism in housing, ed- ucation, healthcare long, but it bends toward justice,”16 and if it is bend- ing toward justice, perhaps they can effortlessly humane systems. Despite the advances in social justice, environmental awareness, and animal protection Having dedicated my life to advancing social justice, animal protec- tion, environmental sustainability


CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 24 June 2024 English

How big is Ontario's credit mills problem

cows” and turning a blind 30 V. Cunningham, Justice Achieved: The Political Struggle of Independent


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn (1879–1957) was the British-appointed governor of Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946 – a period of remarkable change that would culminate in Newfoundland’s union with …

dNd fonds/a159576. 249 41 Commissioner for Justice and Defence Emerson inspects a battery of the vice-chairman); Health and Welfare (Puddester); Justice (Howley). The health and welfare portfolio included Sir Wil- liam Henry Horwood (1862–1945), chief justice of the Supreme Court, 1902–44, was on hand when (1888– 1968) was seconded from the Department of Justice to become secretary of the new unit but did not members and Howley’s successor as commissioner for justice, opposed what was done, having played a leading


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Interactive documentary emerged rapidly from a constellation of changing technologies and practices to much excitement, yet its history is short and its future uncertain. In the mid-2010s Canada was a …

change, nor from struggles for environmental justice, often being fought by Indigenous Peoples across issues: from environmental sustainability and justice to histories of racial and gender-based violence; in the areas of social change and restorative justice, while a third author makes a pioneering contribution


CHB: Coach House Books · 18 June 2024 English

WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD This punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction Living …

—Writing this, I get the sense I haven’t done justice to what happened this morning. I told the guys


DDN: Dundurn Press · 18 June 2024 English

Meet the brilliant mavericks who invented the future of medicine and saved the lives of millions.The Essence of Invention tells the story of medical invention, from the development of anesthesia …

and invention. I hope I have done Schrödinger justice. My proposed equation weaves a consistent thread


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