On Community, Justice, and Libraries

Theorizing Community Justice Through Community Courts

This article reports on research conducted on the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, New York. It theorizes the structure and process of community justice, focusing on the model offered by community courts and examining how the Red Hook Community Justice Center’s development and implementation are products of its immersion in the intersection of societal, spatial, and political dyna...

Toward the Ideal of Community Justice

Community assault--the cost of rough justice.

To the Editor: Violent crime pervades South Africa, with murder, rape and serious assault directly affecting around 1 in 50 people per annum. 1 Approximately 21% of the South African population resides in KwaZulu-Natal province, which has some of the country's highest rates of poverty and violent crime. 2 Law enforcement in such areas is challenging and, as a result, some 40% of households are ...

on semihypergroups and hypergroups

in this thesis, first the notion of weak mutual associativity (w.m.a.) and the necessary and sufficient condition for a $(l,gamma)$-associated hypersemigroup $(h, ast)$ derived from some family of $lesssim$-preordered semigroups to be a hypergroup, are given. second, by proving the fact that the concrete categories, semihypergroups and hypergroups have not free objects we will introduce t...

Designing a conceptual model of public libraries as community centers, based on the public sphere theory of Jürgen Habermas

Objective: The aim of this study is to achieve a conceptual model for the transformation of Iranian public libraries into social centers, based on the theory of the public sphere of Jürgen Habermas. Methodology: Research in terms of purpose, applied; In terms of how data is collected, survey; And in terms of the nature of the data, it is a mixed exploratory type of research conducted with a s...