A recent article by Cashmore (1) addressed the ways in which the criminal justice system might be affected by not recognizing free will. The Oxford philosopher Bradley (2) examined this issue from a Darwinian perspective over 100 years ago. Like Cashmore (1), he found that the nonexistence of free will undermined the retributive principle of justice (2). Bradley (2) went on to note, however, th...

The purpose of this study is to see if there's an impact of organizational justice on the workers performance and job satisfaction in the Ministry of Health hospitals in Amman, the data for this study were collected through a questionnaire from, 300 workers in different jobs, from three hospitals in the Ministry of Health in Amman, Means, (ANOVA), and, linear regression analysis were used. The ...

This paper describes an agent-based approach for constructing a model of criminal justice system operations in England and Wales. The primary purpose of the model is to assess the impact of policy variants across the entire criminal justice system. Because of the structure of this system, three separate government departments interact and deliver services. Decisions in one area of the criminal ...

L IKE CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM TEACHES THAT GOD wishes humankind to pursue justice and mercy, to have a proper regard for each person and to make a contribution towards the emergence of a better social order. This is a theme that is commonly found in the Hebrew Bible and, of course, is well attested in the New Testament and later Christian writings. The purpose of this article is to examine the bi...

Despite the increasing use of e-mediated services to settle divorce, research on its effectiveness is limited. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of an asynchronous e-supported tool to mediate divorces in the Netherlands. In order to do so, we rely on (a) the number of agreements reached and (objective) (b) with the help of a survey, we ask men and women about their perceptions of ...

Although a considerable amount of research has been conducted on treatment-based courts, there is little quantitative evidence that describes the relationship between the judge and the probationer. The present study examines perceptions of the judge-probationer relationship (JPR), procedural justice, and outcome satisfaction within a co-occurring disorders court (CODC) in Orange County, Califor...