BACKGROUND Although HIV and tuberculosis (TB) prevalence are high in prisons throughout sub-Saharan Africa, little research has been conducted on factors related to prevention, testing and treatment services. METHODS To better understand the relationship between prison conditions, the criminal justice system, and HIV and TB in Zambian prisons, we conducted a mixed-method study, including: fac...

In the last few years, we have seen explicit recognition of the administration of justice both as a key component of the legal infrastructure provided by the State and as a service to the public, making evident the need to attain efficiency and efficacy in order to improve access to justice and to increase society’s trust of the administration of justice and the working of legal institutions an...

Through the process of Eurocentric pro-colonialist propaganda people have been, and continue to be, led to assume that the European colonialists brought criminal justice and law and order to Africa. This article challenges those assumptions by using the work of scholars of African history to highlight the existence of criminal justice systems in Africa, in particular pre-colonial West Africa. I...

justice is defined as moderate, and it means putting everything in its place. true justice, based on its nature, has been long ago one of the most basic concerns of human life and the divine religions. quran as a guidance for human beings; has emphasized this doctrine in all aspects of life. in some verses using allegories, this concept has been further explained. besides, the preponderance of ...

Mark Pennington argues political systems should be decentralized in order to facilitate experimental learning about distributive justice. Pointing out the problems with Pennington‘s Hayekian formulation, I reframe his argument as an extension of the Millian idea of ―experiments in living.‖ However, the experimental case for decentralization is limited in several ways. Even if decentralization i...

In this article, the author deals with a number of aspects connected to the theme of access to justice and in so doing refers in particular to the most recent disputes that have been brought before the Court of Justice in Luxembourg. The author argues that there is a need to establish clearly, at the outset, the preconditions that natural or legal person must satisfy before they can turn to the...

some western scholars of shiite studies believe thatthe chief principle of justice in twelver shia islam or imamiyyah is rooted in mo’tazalediscourse while this principle has its roots in imam ali’s (as) theoretical and practical instructions. justice in imam ali’s view has an epistemological status which initiates from allah’s justice attribute; then it streams in cosmology; and after all it i...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to investigate the association of one-year change in organizational justice (i.e., procedural justice and interactional justice) with job performance in Japanese employees. METHODS This study surveyed 425 men and 683 women from a manufacturing company in Japan. Self-administered questionnaires, including the Organizational Justice Questionnaire (OJQ)...