While risk assessment continues to drive most environmental management decision-making, its methods and assumptions have been criticized for, among other things, perpetuating environmental injustice. The justice challenges to risk assessment claim that the process ignores the unique and multiple hazards facing low-income and people of color communities and simultaneously excludes the local, non...

The process and mechanism for settling criminal cases always progresses from time to time. One of the mechanisms in today's modern era is settlement through Restorative Justice. Although initially, its application was more informal limited, this concept has developed become part Criminal Justice System. Settlement that involve many related parties are oriented towards repair or restoration vari...

Objective: At national, state, and local levels, there is increasing recognition of the importance of identifying and responding to the mental health needs of youths in the juvenile justice system, as policymakers and practitioners struggle to find ways to address causes and correlates of juvenile crime and delinquency. The proposed guidelines for mental health assessment provide explicit infor...

A s information technologies and applications become more overwhelming and diverse, persistent information overload problems have become ever more urgent. Fallout from this trend has most affected government, specifically criminaljustice information systems. The explosive growth in the digital information maintained in the data repositories of federal, state, and local criminal-justice entities...

ACTUALIZING SOCIAL JUSTICE: AN EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY OF A PUBLIC MIDDLE SCHOOL MAY 2010 CAMILLE LEE, B.S., UNIVERSITY OF UTAH M.Ed., WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY Ed.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by Professor Pat Griffin Researchers and k-12 practitioners have been struggling with inequity and diversity issues for the past four decades. These struggles have produced multiple philos...

ions. Consumers, students and alternative food-system leaders recognize and place great importance on solving social justice problems (Allen et al., 2003; Howard and Allen, 2006; Perez and Allen, 2007). Local food systems serve many purposes and improve the quality of life for many people. Realizing justice in local food systems 305 by gest on Sptem er 1, 2010 cjres.odjournals.org Doloaded rom ...

Youth incarceration is an international public health concern among developed and developing countries. Worldwide, youth are held in incarceration, detention, and other secure settings that are inappropriate for their age and developmental stages, jeopardizing their prosocial development, and reintegration into society. Youth incarceration lacks evidence and cost-effectiveness. The well-being o...

International research has suggested that women in the criminal justice system carry a higher burden of many illnesses than women in the community, especially mental health disorders, substance use disorders, sexually transmitted infections, and a history of violent victimization. Knowledge of these health disparities is often used to advocate for relevant screening and treatment services for w...

Cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analyses are tools that have been used by public policy analysts for years. Programs as diverse as environmental and land use regulations, welfare benefits, job training programs, and immunization policies have all been analyzed in this manner. Since the early 1980s, Federal regulatory agencies have been required to conduct benefit-cost analyses on major regu...