The City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office Gang Reduction and Youth Development (GRYD) program was conceived as a comprehensive response to gang violence. Unlike most approaches, suppression excluded from the primary model. Program services including community engagement, prevention intervention services, street-based violence interruption, were formally launched in late 2011. Strict geographic eli...

This article seeks to discuss how religion affects gender inequality in Ghana. Religious teachings and beliefs play an important role either promoting or hindering equality. Defining ‘‘religion’’ with a common definition has become major enterprise for theologians. From the biblical perspective, impact of females is rarely felt, due socio-cultural injunctions purported have come from Graeco-Rom...

From its inception over two centuries ago, the Swaminarayan Sampradaya has emphasized interdependence of spirituality and service. BAPS Sanstha’s engagement in humanitarian services is a 200-year-old theological position established by Bhagwan to help his followers attain their soteriological goal ultimate liberation. Swaminarayan’s own compassionate service needy, coupled with teaching that ac...

The article challenges Arthur Ripstein’s theses on the place of private law (and tort in particular) John Rawls’ theory justice. According to Ripstein, justice grants a certain independence by exempting it from distributive injunctions principles chosen original position. This conclusion has two bases, one negative and other positive. On side argument, Ripstein claims that position does not...

The concept of mattering can be helpful for understanding the ways in which structural and historical factors affect individual psychologies. This paper lays out usefulness as a lens through to examine why small minority young people Britain commit violent acts. We first explore what it means matter evidence linking quest with violence, then contemporary diminish person’s sense mattering, using...

For around two decades, if not longer, Canada has seen a number of cases dealing with tent encampments, typically, but always, located in public parks. Often these decisions arise out municipalities seeking interlocutory or interim injunctions against the encampments. Property and property rights have significant role to play as alleged harm tends be determinative matter. In this article I seek...

This paper addresses the persistent philosophical problem posed by amoralist—one who eschews moral values—by drawing on complementary resources within phenomenology and care ethics. How is it that amoralist can reject ethical injunctions serve general good be unpersuaded intuitions for most would require neither explanation nor justification? And more generally, what basis motivation? Why we ot...

Abstract Since the 1980s, archaeology has been further embedded in a reinforced and accelerating capitalist ideology, namely neo-liberalism. Most archaeologists had no alternative but to adapt it through concessions free-market economy so-called mitigations taking place within development. However, is now apparent that ongoing global socio-ecological disaster we are facing cannot be reversed wi...

This paper scrutinizes the ethicality of Islamic banks’ (IBs’) business model by employing ‘objectives law’ (Maq?sid al-Shar?’ah). necessitates developing an ethical framework to construe two primary injunctions finance, namely rib? and gharar. The former embodies financial decoupling (aggravating risk-shifting) unjust price gouging (provoking economic stagnation exclusion), while latter involv...