The growing prominence of restorative justice interventions necessitates a reconceptualization of criminal justice in terms of a new paradigm. The most plausible candidate for this is an empowerment paradigm of justice. However, an overarching theory of criminal justice in these terms needs to be complemented by more fine-grained theoretical explanations of how and why conventional and alternat...

This paper presents a critique of rural education in South Africa. It starts by introducing the reader to the understanding of rurality. It then gives an expos of rural education in relation to sustainability, social justice, development and the need for creation of sustainable rural learning ecologies. It concedes that difference is an inherent, inevitable and indispensable feature of social e...

Social support types (abstinence, appraisal, belonging, tangible) were analyzed among a sample of women with criminal justice involvement and substance use disorders (n = 200). Hierarchical linear regression was conducted to examine social support types in relation to changes in abstinence self-efficacy while controlling for incarceration histories. Only abstinence social support and tangible s...

background: today the justice is the most important concepts affects on organization survival, since understanding and recognizing of organizational justice is a necessity in social cooperation. the current study conducted with the aim of examining the association between emotional intelligence in isfahan university of medical science staffs with organizational justice methods: this study is a ...

power, security, and liberty, considered as the objectives of political sovereignty by some scholars, are also incorporated in naraghi's conception of justice. in his view, political power is a mere instrument for the application of justice, and providing security is a major function of state and can be maintained only in the light of justice. the citizens and members of the islamic societ...