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The Geographies of Justice symposium is intended to facilitate interactions between scholars and policymakers from various backgrounds to examine new directions in social and environmental justice. Traditionally focused upon differential exposure to environmental hazards, the concept of justice is experiencing a renaissance with emerging interest in topics such as race, gender, ethnicity and se...

INTRODUCTION Black male youth are at high risk of homicide and criminal justice involvement. This study aimed to determine how early mortality among youth offenders varies based on race; gender; and the continuum of justice system involvement: arrest, detention, incarceration, and transfer to adult courts. METHODS Criminal and death records of 49,479 youth offenders (ages 10-18 years at first...

Sixty-nine Midwestern middle-class children and adolescents were tested on justice and care orientations when reasoning abstract and interpersonal moral dilemmas. Nona Lyons" ("Two Perspectives on Self, Relationships and Morality," Harvard Educational Review, 1983, 53,125-145) scoring method was used to score subjects" responses. A 2(sex) × 2(age) analysis of variance run on the total justice a...

This editorial introduces this special section of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, which focuses on justice-involved persons with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders (CODs). It contains seven original articles examining CODs among justice-involved populations that vary by gender, age, setting (e.g., community/ court, jail, prison), environment (urban, rural), geographic regio...

While males continue to comprise the majority of criminal offenders, the number of female offenders involved in the criminal justice system continues to grow at a much faster rate (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2007). Rapidly rising numbers draw attention to the treatment programs available to this unique population. More specifically, interest is growing in the recently developed gender-respon...

Although it is estimated that domestic abuse is as common in gay male and lesbian intimate relationships as in heterosexual relationships, the legal system often fails to recognize or respond to same-gender cases. Empirical research examining the impact of sexual orientation on perceptions of abuse is virtually nonexistent. Undergraduates (N = 252) read a summary of a domestic abuse incident in...

The paper examines why the efforts to promote gender justice by development aid have not succeeded in dealing with deeply-rooted structural injustices which prevent the realization of social justice and gender equality. The study analyses the implementation of the UNSCR 1325 ‘Women, Peace, and Security’ in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The paper concludes that in current, transiti...