Aesthetic Grammars of Social Justice: Sex Work Reimagined

What kind of social justice does social work seek?

Before considering conceptions of social justice, it is important to understand why it matters, since this is a matter of opinion rather than fact (Donnison, 1991). There is perhaps little, if any, doubt about the significance of this question among people in poor countries. They have become accustomed to facing the prospect of destitution, violence and death. Even in an affluent country like A...

Evaluating Human Rights Advocacy on Criminal Justice and Sex Work.

Between October 2011 and September 2013, we conducted research on the use, by police and/or prosecutors, of condom possession as evidence of intent to engage in prostitution-related offenses. We studied the practice in five large, geographically diverse cities in the U.S. To facilitate our advocacy on this issue, conducted concurrent to and following our research, we developed an advocacy frame...

Restorative Justice: A Systematic Review of the Social Work Literature

Restorative justice is an alternative paradigm for dealing with the effects of crime and wrongdoing that seeks to bring healing to victims, offenders, and the community. Although a key element of social work’s ethical code is the obligation to work toward social justice, this has been viewed primarily as efforts to ensure a fair distribution of resources and opportunities. Yet justice is also r...

SOcIAL wORK In THEORy AnD pRAcTIcE Of RESTORATIvE juSTIcE

The honour of becoming guest editors of this journal is closely connected with collaborating in a European action research project. The EU-funded project “Restorative Justice at post-sentencing level; supporting and protecting victims” was carried out in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and in several partner countries, among them Croatia, between 1st January 2013 and 31st December 2014. The lead pa...

Social Justice Through Civil Justice