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The possibility of popular justice : a case study of community mediation in the United States
- Title
- The possibility of popular justice : a case study of community mediation in the United States / edited by Sally Engle Merry and Neal Milner.
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1993.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xii, 488 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Law, meaning, and violence
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. Defining popular justice -- Introduction / Sally Engle Merry, Neal Milner -- Sorting out popular justice / Sally Engle Merry -- The future of alternative dispute resolution: reflections on ADR as a social movement / Peter S. Adler -- Evaluation of community justice programs / Kem Lowry --
- pt. 2. San Francisco community boards and the meaning of community mediation -- Community boards: an analytic profile / Fredric L. DuBow, Craig McEwen -- Organizing for community mediation: the legacy of community boards of San Francisco as a social movement organization / Douglas R. Thomson, Fredric L. DuBow -- Justice from another perspective: the ideology and developmental history of the community boards program / Raymond Shonholtz -- What mediation training says or doesn't say about the ideology and culture of North American community justice programs / Vicki Shook, Neal Milner -- Dispute transformation, the influence of a communication paradigm of disputing, and the San Francisco community boards program / Judy H. Rothschild -- Police and "nonstranger" conflicts in a San Francisco neighborhood: notes on mediation and intimate violence / Fredric L. DuBow, Elliot Currie --
- pt. 3. Contested words: community, justice, empowerment, and popular -- The paradox of popular justice: a practitioner's view / John Paul Lederach, Ron Kraybill -- Local people, local problems, and neighborhood justice: the discourse of "community" in San Francisco community boards / Barbara Yngvesson -- Community organizing through conflict resolution / Christine B. Harrington -- When is popular justice popular? / Laura Nader -- The impossibility of popular justice / Peter Fitzpatrick.
- Call Number
- JFE 94-2318
- ISBN
- 0472104268 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 93024588
- OCLC
- 28148774
- NYPG94-B16177
- Title
- The possibility of popular justice : a case study of community mediation in the United States / edited by Sally Engle Merry and Neal Milner.
- Imprint
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1993.
- Series
- Law, meaning, and violence
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-2020.Milner, Neal A.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 94-2318