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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459691703321

Autore

Merry Sally Engle <1944-2020.>

Titolo

The Possibility of popular justice : a case study of community mediation in the United States / / edited by Sally Engle Merry and Neal Milner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 1995, c1993

ISBN

1-282-60474-0

9786612604744

0-472-02399-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (501 p.)

Collana

Law, meaning, and violence

Altri autori (Persone)

MilnerNeil

Disciplina

347.7309

Soggetti

Evaluation research (Social action programs) - California - San Francisco

Neighborhood justice centers - California - San Francisco

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Part 1: Defining Popular Justice""; ""Introduction / Sally Engle Merry and 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""; ""Part 2: San Francisco Community Boards and the Meaning of Community Mediation""; ""Community Boards: An Analytic Profile / Fredric L. DuBow and Craig McEwen""

""Organizing for Community Mediation: The Legacy of Community Boards of San Francisco as a Social-Movement Organization / Douglas R. Thomson and 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 and 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 with Elliot Currie""; ""Part 3: Contested Words: Community, Justice, Empowerment, and Popular""; ""The Paradox of Popular Justice: A Practitioner's View / John Paul Lederach and 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""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""