Centering Social Justice in Mental Health Practice: Epistemic Justice and Social Work Practice

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...

Health and social justice.

Theories of social justice applied to health care have typically focused on justifying health care (medicine and public health) as a special social good. Rationalizing greater equality in health care is typically the point of departure for most approaches to medical ethics, even those that include health assessment. In general, these approaches have paid relatively little attention to universal...

A Dialectic of Justice: Critiquing Social Conventions and Motivating Practice

Socrates’ infamous question, “What is Justice?” in Plato’s Republic, spawned a debate for philosophers (and societies), and the answers continue to be important and contested today. The diversity of approaches and persistence of disagreement has inclined some contemporary philosophers to adopt a position of moral relativism. Relativism is the thesis that there are many equally valid frameworks ...

Teaching For Social Justice: Teachers Inquire Into Their Practice

Over the years, each of us has been engaged in various teaching and research projects that focus on social justice concerns. Teaching with social justice at its heart highlights the importance of the teacher’s role in imagining and working towards a more equitable society. We began to talk about (to echo Tripp) our “own sense of justice and equality” some years ago. The occasion for our convers...

Social Justice Through Civil Justice