Justifying Public Justice

Justifying public health surveillance: basic interests, unreasonable exercise, and privacy.

Surveillance plays a crucial role in public health and for obvious reasons conflicts with individual privacy. This article argues that the predominant approach to the conflict--relying on a conceptual distinction between research and practice--is problematic and then offers an alternative. It outlines a basic interests approach to public health measures and an unreasonable exercise argument, wh...

Justifying Restorative Justice: A Practical and Theoretical Justification for Restorative Practices

Introduction: As proponents of restorative justice, we tend to believe that these processes should be integrated into the criminal justice system because they work, they make sense and they address the real needs of people. To us, the justification for using restorative practices is almost self evident, However, the truth is that most criminal justice practitioners are extremely skeptical about...

Grounding Justice in Public Meeting Practice

Violence prevention: criminal justice or public health?

Justifying Equality

We consider the problem of finding irredundant bases for inconsistent sets of equalities and disequalities. These are subsets of inconsistent sets which do not contain any literals which do not contribute to the unsatisfiability in an essential way, and can therefore be discarded. The approach we are pursuing here is to decorate derivations with proofs and to extract irredundant sets of assumpt...