leadership from social justice organizations that work collaboratively with broad-based grassroots constituencies? And, what can we learn about cooperative-inquiry as a valuable practice for this kind of leadership? This chapter extracts lessons about social justice leadership and about the use of cooperative-inquiry as a vehicle for conducting participatory social research from six cooperative...

We answer a question due to A. Myasnikov by proving that all expected ranks occur as the ranks of intersections of finitely generated subgroups of free groups. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 20E05 Let F be a free group. Let H and K be nontrivial finitely generated subgroups of F . It is a theorem of Howson [1] that H ∩K has finite rank. H. Neumann proved in [2] that rank(H ∩K)− 1 ≤ ...

Major changes in mental health policies and laws have placed untold numbers of persons with serious mental illness (PSMIs) in the community, where they receive inadequate or intermittent care, or no care at all. These changes have caused criminal justice professionals to become involved with PSMIs at every stage of the justice process. In this chapter, we explore the blurred boundaries between ...

This chapter reviews two studies on restorative justice that I have conducted in the past several years. One examines variability in the conference process, and the second compares outcomes for court and conference cases. The studies show the strengths and weaknesses of restorative justice from a victim's perspective. The conference-only study demonstrates the limits of restorative justice in h...

This article is aimed at the need for normative definition of concept and essence justice as a particularly important term in sphere realization judicial power, system activity courts. It emphasized that despite fact widely used scientific works legislation, Constitution Ukraine eighth chapter called “Justice”, its are not normatively defined, scholars interpretations Constitutional Court under...

pushkin is an extraordinary phenomenon in russian and also the world literature with works on which the global ideas shine in. nobody is able, just like pushkin, to demonstrate a man of other nations and to speak on behalf of him so authentically.  his ability in describing iranian culture and also iranian genius poet, saadi, was so that prince shalikov, the publisher of “damskii zhurnal”, call...

The Youth Justice Service began in 1999 in Queensland. It embodied a new vision for the supervision, rehabilitation and reintegration of young offenders serving community-based orders. Evidence suggests that the Youth Justice Service failed to change significantly the pathways of young offenders. A random sample of 190 clients drawn from the Youth Justice Service and Area Offices that used trad...