Procedural & Distributive Justice and Amenability to Psychological Treatment in Juvenile Delinquents

Distributive justice, procedural justice, and psychological distress: the moderating effect of coworker support and work autonomy.

Recent research has demonstrated that the perception of injustice at work may increase psychological health-related problems. The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effect of coworker support and work autonomy on the relationships between both distributive and procedural justice and psychological distress. Results, on the basis of responses to questionnaires given to 248 prison ...

Improving professional judgments of risk and amenability in juvenile justice.

The dual requirement to ensure community safety and promote a youthful offender's positive development permeates policy and frames daily practice in juvenile justice. Balancing those two demands, explain Edward Mulvey and Anne-Marie Iselin, requires justice system professionals at all levels to make extremely difficult decisions about the likely risk and amenability to treatment of adolescent o...

Violent juvenile delinquents: psychiatric, neurological, psychological, and abuse factors.

Mental Types of Juvenile Delinquents Considered in Relation to Treatment

Distributive Justice

Distributive justice concerns the fair, just or equitable distribution of benefits and burdens. These benefits and burdens span all dimensions of social life and assume all forms, including income, economic wealth, political power, taxation, work obligations, education, shelter, health care, military service, community involvement and religious activities. Thus, justice arguments are often invo...