We propose an approach to Paretian jurisprudence which is intermediate in its distributive consequences between the perfectly risk-neutral, consumer surplus-maximizing approach of Richard Posner and the perfectly risk-averse, leximin approach of John Rawls. Instead of consumer surplus, we focus on the marginal costs of increased labor; the dollar-weighted formula of Posner is replaced by an hou...

• Introduction • The Political and Economic Context of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice • The Family and Delinquency • Schools and Delinquency • The Community and Delinquency • Peer associations and Delinquency • The Social Context of Delinquency Theories • The Social Context of Juvenile Justice • The Infl uence of the Political Economy on the Practice of Juvenile Justice  ChaPTEr OU...

The effect of early release of prisoners on Home Detention Curfew (HDC) on recidivism Olivier Marie, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University and Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics Karen Moreton, Offender Management Analytical Services, Ministry of Justice Miguel Goncalves, Justice Statistics Analytical Services, Ministry of...

a r t i c l e i n f o The ecological economic concern with environmental sustainability embodies the normative orientations of the field. This concern is foremost a matter of distributive justice, the definition of which determines the relevance of the appropriate scale and efficient allocation criteria. Yet it would appear that the discipline lacks a shared, internally consistent set of ethica...

This paper seeks to construct a social contract theory of economic justice using Barry's (1989: 347-8) empirical method of contractual reasoning. Barry described this method in a passage worth quoting at length: 'The empirical method starts from observation rather than pure thought. It is animated by the consideration that actual societies approximate more or less closely the conditions .... th...

Globalization is one of the most important developments of the late twentieth century, which is continued intensively in the twenty first century. Due to the complexity and multifaceted terms of the subject matter and level of analysis, there has been multiple and even contradictory definition for it. One of the most significant debates in the field of globalization is whether globalization lea...

background: theoretically, a vital factor in development has been the resilience and strength of socio-economic system to confront instabilities and crises. the precaution, however, is that an error might be committed, where, instead of finding the root causes of diseases we are mobilizing the forces to confront the signs of illness, leaving the diseases to grow and damage the lesser developed ...

Social justice is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society. This relation will assay by the government, according to fair distribution of opportunities and facilities. After 20 century, there was always emphasis on the role of states as social justice's agents in society by formulating and implementing of policy. The main question is what is the place of social ju...