Thinking About Justice: A Book of Readings - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552664724 ISBN 13: 9781552664728

Publisher: Fernwood Pub Co Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

How do we think about justice? Is it an act? An ideology? A philosophy? We are divided in our understandings of justice between those who seek fundamental social change versus those who seek incremental change and between those who argue that justice exists versus those who think it is a ruse between internal and external perspectives. However, a promising axis of scholarship aimed at bridging these divides is emerging. Thinking about Justice introduces readers to these three ways of thinking about justice in a variety of contexts including prisons, policing, the courts, youth crime, Aboriginal people, the media, poverty and work in the sex industry. Ultimately, Thinking about Justice seeks to embrace the potentialities of justice, to explore the avenues through which justice seekers interact, debate and achieve some mode of cohesion and find a new, inclusive way forward."

About this title

About the Author:

Kelly Gorkoff is a former research associate for RESOLVE and a lecturer in sociology at the University of Manitoba. Jane Runner is the program manager for the Transition, Education and Resources for Females program, which provides a culturally appropriate and supportive healing environment for women and transgendered individuals who have been exploited in the sex trade.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fernwood Pub Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1552664724
• ISBN 13: 9781552664728
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Gorkoff Kelly, Jochelson Richard