Administering a victim impact curriculum to inmates: a multi-site replication

While restorative justice has been the topic of much research, a specific type of program included in restorative justice, Impact of Crime (IOC) on Victims programs, has not been widely studied or assessed for effectiveness. This study examines IOC on Victims Curriculum Development Programs. Offenders from programs in California, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia were participants in this research. A four-state evaluation methodology was developed in order to assess the effectiveness of these programs in educating offenders about victims’ right and victim facts, as well as increasing their sensitivity to victims’ difficulties. The findings in this evaluation lend support to previous studies, indicating efficacy for IOC programs. Suggestions for future research are briefly discussed.     

Animal rights is a social justice issue

The literature on social justice, and social justice movements themselves, routinely ignore nonhuman animals as legitimate subjects of social justice. Yet, as with other social justice movements, the contemporary animal liberation movement has as its focus the elimination of institutional and systemic domination and oppression. In this paper, I explicate the philosophical and theoretical foundations of the contemporary animal rights movement, and situate it within the framework of social justice. I argue that those committed to social justice – to minimizing violence, exploitation, domination, objectification, and oppression – are equally obligated to consider the interests of all sentient beings, not only those of human beings.     

The political value of languages

A theory of linguistic justice needs to take into account the three distinct values of language as a medium for communication, as a source of individual identity and as an instrument for political self-government. Doing so would undermine Van Parijs’ claim that political borders and peoples should be downgraded to a purely instrumental role for purposes of social justice. But it would widen the scope of egalitarian global justice by including a universal right of individuals to membership self-governing polities and it could provide more solid theoretical foundations for his defence of coercive territorial language regimes.     

公益诉讼原告主体范围之扩张

公益诉讼法律化后的宏大法律图景未能在行动中的实践成为可视的制度实在,公益诉讼法律条款基本处于休眠状态。主要原因在于立法者推崇实用主义和渐进式功利主义的改革路线和利益导向机制,严格限定公益诉讼的主体范围,将大量主体阻隔于法院大门之外,割裂协调有序的公益诉权主体链条,致使公益诉讼无法实效发挥制度机能。公益诉讼的制度化或者再制度化可将权利生成和整体正义作为指引公益诉讼精细化发展和长远性发展的基本功能导向,适当开放公益诉讼通道,建构行政机关、检察院、社会组织和公民个人的多元互补的原告主体体系,并在现有法律框架内务实而理性地探求主体扩张的合理路径。     

Relational Justice in Organizations: The Group-Value Model and Support for Change

This paper examines the psychological dynamics of the Group-Value Model for a behavioral orientation which has seldom been considered in the social justice literature: acceptance and support for change. A field study was conducted, with 176 participants members of an organization which was undergoing a change process. Participants were asked (a) to think of a specific relevant conflict situation with their supervisor; (b) to evaluate supervisor's behavior in that situation, with respect to relational and distributive justice; (c) to state the justice aspects most valued in conflict situations with their supervisor. A test of the model was conducted through a mediation analysis. According to the Group-Value Model (GVM), respect experienced within the group and pride in the group were mediating variables between justice judgements and orientation toward acceptance and support for change in the organization. Interactional and procedural aspects (relational judgements) were the only ones to predict pride, respect, and behavioral orientation, and were also the ones most valued in general conflict situations with the supervisor. The model was also tested at three different levels of analysis: organization as a whole, department, and work group. This confirmed pride and respect within the group as mediating variables between relational justice judgements and orientation toward acceptance and support for change at the department and workgroup levels.     

民事判决的瑕疵

近十几年来 ,无论是在实务界还是在理论界 ,人们更多关注的是民事审判方式的改革以及对程序独立价值的重新思考和定位。所有这些使我国过去审判和实务中“重实体、轻程序”的顽疾得到了革除 ,提升了当事人对民事程序进行的主导权和决定权。但是对于作为终结程序运行的民事判决及其存在的问题却鲜有人论及。     

论我国民事诉讼法修改的基本动因和思路

随着民事审判方式改革的深入 ,对我国民事诉讼法修改的研究 ,已经是摆在民事诉讼法学界面前的一个重要课题。建立适应社会主义市场经济需要的民事诉讼法律制度 ,是我国走向司法民主和政治文明的重大步骤。     

理性的失落——对"器官异位案"的理性思考

法律对于理性人的假设,使法官在疑难案件的裁判中举步维艰。但任何一个具有正义感的法官都不应屈服于人类的有限理性。突破理论与实践中意识形态的束缚,创造性地适用法律并以此实现个案正义,是法官的必须选择。     

全面建设小康与社会公平

全面建设小康社会对公平的要求有两个主要内容:减少绝对贫困人口的数量和缩小人们收入及财产数量的差别。社会主义市场经济条件下的社会公平必须建立在效率的基础上。目前及今后一段时期内,我国社会仍然处在为公平奠定效率基础的阶段,要按照党的十六大精神,坚持"效率优先、兼顾公平"的分配政策取向,初次分配注重效率,再分配注重公平。     

秉持社会正义 恪守社会公平——执政者构建和谐社会的一个支点

形成人尽其能、各得其所而又和谐相处的社会,是巩国党执政的社会基础,是实现党执政的历史任务的必然要求.构建和谐社会的基础和前提是社会正义和社会公平,而执政者肩负着秉持社会正义、恪守社会公平的双重职责,因此,坚持以社会正义为本,制订政策和法律,建章立制,是构建和谐社会的首选措施,以社会公平为度,执行社会正义的目标,是构建和谐社会的基本要求.