Theories of Justice, Paperback - ***

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 634Collection: The Library of Essays on JusticePublication date: 2017Dimensions: 169 x 245 x 40Cove...

Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such the...

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Juvenile Justice: An Introduction, Tenth Edition, presents a comprehensive picture of juvenile offending, delinquency theories, and the ways juveni...

Providing a thorough examination of distributive justice, Distributive Justice and Taxation presents and discusses different theories of what const...

DescriptionIn his provocative new book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, Gerald Gaus lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diver...

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Presents an introduction to the subject of domestic violence and its interaction with the criminal justice system. This book examines the phenomeno...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Charis E. KubrinEditor: Thomas D. StuckyIntroduction to Criminal Justice is the first textbook to approach theories and pra...

This book supports writing educators on college campuses to work towards linguistic equity and social justice for multilingual students. It demonst...

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Although there are various factors which contribute to failed change, one of the key reasons for change failure is the inability of leaders to conv...

In this superb introduction, Samuel Freeman introduces and assesses the main topics of Rawls' philosophy. Starting with a brief biography and chart...

Principles of International Criminal Law is one of the leading textbooks in the field of international criminal justice. This fourth edition retain...

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Conspiracy theories are no longer just a curiosity for afficionados but a politically salient theme in the age of Trump, Brexit and fake news. One ...

This textbook brings criminology theories to life through a wide range of popular works in film, television and video games including 13 Reasons Wh...

DescriptionInternational criminal law has witnessed a rapid rise after the end of the Cold War. The UN refers to the birth of a new 'age of account...

This edited collection examines the intersections between career guidance, social justice and neo-liberalism. Contributors offer an original and gl...

Reflecting the broad nature of this area, this book goes beyond merely looking at organised crime and terrorism to present readers with a wide-rang...

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Reducere. Theories of justice often fixate on purely normative, abstract principles unrelated to real-world situations. The philosopher and theorist Axel Hon...

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Offering an examination of educational approaches to promote justice, this volume demonstrates the necessity for keeping race, ethnicity, class, la...

Whether a student, an instructor, a researcher, or just someone interested in understanding the roots of sociology and our social world, The Cambri...

DescriptionThe essence of libertarianism is the view that coercive political institutions, such as the state, are justified only insofar as they fu...

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Psychologists have always shone a torch, and often a spotlight, into many dark corners of the human mind. They study everything, from art preferenc...

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The number of people incarcerated in the U.S. now exceeds 2.3 million, due in part to the increasing criminalization of drug use: over 25% of peopl...

In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in many cities, race plays an ever more salient role in crime and justice. Within theoreti...

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This volume represents the first section of F. A. Hayek's comprehensive three-part study of the relations between law and liberty. Rules and Order ...

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International Relations emerged as a distinct academic discipline in the early twentieth century, but its philosophic foundations draw on centuries...

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The central Christian belief in salvation through the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ remains one of the most intractable myster...

Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosop...

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Reducere. Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended and expanded. The Me...

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Contributor(s): Author: Catherine Y. KimAuthor: Daniel J. LosenAuthor: Damon T. HewittThe "school-to-prison pipeline" is an emerging trend that pus...

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