Justice Mission Research Articles

Negotiating tensions between the high‐performing and socially just college: A consideration of the discursive construction of youth in English college governing boards

The English further education (FE) sector caters for young learners who are regularly defined as at risk due to a range of economic and social challenges, as transitions from youth to adulthood become more protracted, and inequalities amongst young people and between generations persist and deepen. At a time when policy places increasing responsibilities on governors and leaders to balance college performance and cost‐effectiveness against FE’s long‐standing social justice mission, this article analyses how this tension plays out through the discursive construction of young learners by two English college governing boards. We use a critical discourse analysis approach to connect how young learners are ‘talked into being’ through the micro‐level processes of governing within the wider context in which college governing operates. We argue that, despite a wider drive for governors to interact with learners, their understanding of learners is dominated by data, through which young learners in particular are constituted as a risk rather than at risk. We explore the discursive constructions of young learners that ensue in this data‐dominated context, and the social practices governing boards use to manage the risks posed by young learners. We highlight the different positionings of governors and college senior managers within these constitutive practices, arguing that the ways young learners are discursively constructed is revealing of a central tension in college governing practices—that between the high‐performing and the socially just college.

American Extraterritorial Legislation

Since the early 2000s, the United States’ different administrations of justice have been prosecuting foreign companies suspected of violating US laws on bribery of foreign public officials and of failing to respect embargoes and economic sanctions. Even if these violations take place outside US borders, the American prosecution authorities (including the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Office of Foreign Assets Control) consider themselves legitimate to intervene. European multinationals have been particularly sanctioned. For instance, in 2014, fines reached up to 9 billion dollars for the French bank BNP, which was accused of using dollars in its transactions with certain countries sanctioned by the US (mainly Iran, Cuba and Sudan). Punishing companies and hitting them in the wallet are not the only objectives of the American administration. The United States takes advantage of legal procedures against foreign companies to collect millions of bytes of data, sometimes including sensitive information on them as well as on their partners and markets. Facing this legal offensive, Europe is still struggling to provide responses to protect its companies.

Factors Influencing Fruit and Vegetable Farmers’ Willingness to Participate in Market Outlets with a Food Justice Mission: The Case of Fresh Stop Markets

Factors Influencing Fruit and Vegetable Farmers’ Willingness to Participate in Market Outlets with a Food Justice Mission: The Case of Fresh Stop Markets

Training peer teachers to teach first year graduate level information literacy sessions

This case study describes the creation, implementation, and assessment of training upper-level graduate students (Peer Teachers) to teach information literacy sessions to first year graduate students at a graduate university located in a large metropolitan area in the Midwest with a social justice mission. According to student evaluation forms distributed at the end of instruction sessions, learners responded positively and effectively learned basic skills whether taught by a librarian or a peer. Further, mentoring students into teaching roles increased the library's capacity for teaching information literacy sessions. The Peer Teacher program also built space for collaboration and enhanced creativity among information literacy instructors.

СПРАВЕДЛИВОСТЬ КАК СОЦИАЛЬНОЕ ЯВЛЕНИЕ

The article considers the category of social justice. The author notes that justice as a social regulator of people's behavior has an evaluative character, manifests itself in all spheres of public life and is applicable to almost any activity. Justice has an objective-subjective nature, an imperative. It is emphasized that the prescriptions of justice do not evolve and cannot evolve, the very essence of justice remains unchanged. The content of the requirements of justice, on the contrary, is very variable, because it depends on the level of development of society, as well as the needs and interests of participants in the social process. The content of justice is based on the ideas of combining "just equality" and "just inequality". The author draws attention to the fact that it is not necessary to consider equality exclusively as an integral part of justice. Justice and equality are complementary phenomena that do not coincide in their essence. The article examines the problem of classification of justice. The author classifies justice according to such criteria as the sphere of public life, in which justice is manifested; the commonality of views, views on the requirements of justice; the sphere of manifestation and embodiment of justice. The classification of justice is presented depending on the differences between the subjects under consideration, on the functional role of justice. In conclusion, it is concluded that the special mission of justice in the regulation of the system of public relations. It is noted that justice accumulates in some normative principles the urgent needs of social life, these requirements of society, undergoing "ideological processing", receive the qualities of categoricity and are included as a basic principle in the system of normative regulation of this society, which determines what is permissible and what is not

Sosyal Medya Yasası Meclis'ten Geçti: Peki, Şimdi? (Social Media Law Passed By Parliament: Now What?)

Turkish abstract: Kamuoyunda Sansur Yasasi olarak bilinen, sosyal medyaya yonelik duzenlemeler getiren ve 5651 sayili Internet Yasasi'nda 1 degisiklikler yapan 7253 sayili Kanun 2 , Turkiye Buyuk Millet Meclisi'nce (TBMM) 29.07.2020 tarihinde kabul edildi. Bu kisa yazimizda; degisikliklerin neler getirdigini aciklamaya, neden degisikliklerin oldukca sakincali oldugu, ornek alindigi belirtilen Almanya'daki duzenlemeden ne gibi olumsuz yonde farkliliklar icerdigi ve Anayasa'ya aykiri olup olmadigi degerlendirmeye calisacagiz. Temel olarak sosyal medya uzerinde etkiler doguracak yasal duzenlemeler, onemli bir suredir konusulmaktadir. Bu amacla ilk olarak; 7244 sayili Torba Yasa Tasarisi'nda benzer yondeki degisikliklere iliskin teklif sunulmus, bu teklif kamuoyunda Whatsapp Yasasi olarak anilmis ve buyuk olcude tepki toplamis, teklif sonrasinda tasaridan cikarilmistir. Devaminda kamuoyuna Sosyal Medya Etik Kurallari adi altinda on iki kural aciklanmistir. 21.07.2020 tarihinde ise yeni bir tasari TBMM Baskanligi'na sunulmus ve TBMM Adalet Komisyonu tarafindan 24.07.2020 tarihinde kabul edilerek Meclis gundemine gelmistir. English Abstract: : Public opinion on the Censorship Act, known as the arrangements for bringing social media and Internet Act of 5651 makes changes to the 7253 No. 2 1 Turkey Grand National Assembly (''Parliament'') adopted on 29.07.2020. In this short article; We will try to explain what the changes bring, why the changes are quite objectionable, what kind of negative differences they contain from the regulation in Germany, which is said to be taken as an example, and whether they are against the Constitution. Legal regulations that will have an impact on social media have been spoken for a long time. For this purpose, firstly; A proposal regarding similar changes in the Bag Draft No. 7244 was made, this proposal was publicly mention as the Whatsapp Law and it received a great deal of reaction and was removed from the draft following the proposal. Subsequently, twelve rules were announced to the public under the name of Social Media Code of Ethics. On 21.07.2020, a new draft was submitted to the Presidency of the TBMM and it was accepted by the TBMM Justice Commission on 24.07.2020 and came to the agenda of the Assembly.

Desire for a Magnificent Seven: A Queer Reading of a Western Remake

Reflecting on his audiencing experience of Westerns between the 1960 and 2016 remake of the movie, The Magnificent Seven, the author reflects on the social justice mission of the film plot. He comments on the complex presentation of the racialized/ethnic other in Yul Brynner and Denzel Washington as lead bad-boys-turned good, in a homosocial band of renegade brothers. The author uses a line from Johnny Cash’s “Man in Black” as commitment to a stylized performance for justice. In the end, the author attempts to reconcile his queer desire for the cowboy figure, as a form of disidentification with a romanticized yet still violent character-type.

An exploratory study of students’ perceptions of environmental issues as social work practice and their understanding of environmental justice

ABSTRACT As environmental crises continue to rise, the profession of social work in the US is being called to incorporate environmental justice content in the training and education of social workers to prepare them for addressing the effects of environmental injustices; however, students’ awareness of the profession’s environmental justice mission is uncertain. The current mixed-method study sought to explore this issue amongst a sample of social work students (N = 724) in the US. Overall, students mildly to moderately believe that environmental issues are part of practice, and regression results revealed that greater support was associated with the belief in climate change and completing a university course that included environmental injustice. Content analysis of an open-ended question that asked students to define ‘environmental justice’ revealed that students primarily defined this term within the context of general environmental harm (28%) and 15% linked this term to a disproportionate exposure to hazards among people who have been historically oppressed and marginalized. Together these results suggested that further educational efforts may be needed to expand students’ knowledge of environmental (in)justice and how it is part of practice across the micro-macro continuum.

The day after the apology: A critical discourse analysis of President Tsai’s national apology to Taiwan’s indigenous peoples

In 2016, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen officially apologised to the island’s indigenous peoples. This national apology not only plays a persuasive role in informing the general public about the historical wrongdoings inflicted on the Taiwanese aborigines, but also constitutes a therapeutic and restorative role in the process of reconciliation with the indigenous victims. This article provides a critical discourse analysis of President Tsai’s apology. In particular, it examines the power and ideology embedded in both the speech and the related ceremony, and is supplemented with extracts from interviews with a cross-section of key stakeholders, such as a former Constitutional/Supreme Court Justice, indigenous/tribal leaders and members/staff/advisers from the Presidential Office Indigenous Historical Justice and Transitional Justice Committee. The analysis reveals that, despite President Tsai’s apology and reconciliation policies, instead of facilitating reconciliation, the apology appears to exacerbate the long-standing latent tension between indigenous and non-indigenous groups. While the apology opens a window for reconciliation, a higher level of commitment is required to promote structural and systemic changes, such as land restitution, before the apology can be deemed adequate.

The Use of Technology (And Other Measures) to Increase Court Capacity: A View from Australia

This paper is a submission to the House of Commons Justice Committee Inquiry into Court Capacity. The purpose of this submission is to describe how technology has been used, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, to increase court capacity in Australia. The submission identifies some challenges raised by the use of technology, and the responses to those challenges. The submission also covers some measures, not limited to technology, that have been taken to increase court capacity in response to COVID-19. Part I of this submission sets out the range of uses for which technology may be used in the justice system and develops a taxonomy of these uses. Part II provides an overview of the use of technology to increase court capacity in Australia, both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Part III identifies challenges that have arisen in connection with open justice, procedural fairness, access to justice and jury trials. We explain how Australian courts have responded to these challenges.

Pseudoscience, an Emerging Field, or Just a Framework Without Outcomes? A Bibliometric Analysis and Case Study Presentation of Social Justice Research

The term social justice is frequently utilized in the field of school psychology. However, a systematic review of this framework in terms of its relationship to research and outcomes has not been undertaken. As such, the purpose of this study was to conduct a bibliometric analysis and case study review of research literature associated with the term social justice in the field of school psychology. To accomplish this, the following school psychology journals were utilized: Contemporary School Psychology, Psychology in the Schools, International Journal of School and Educational Psychology, Journal of Applied School Psychology, Journal of School Psychology, School Psychology (Quarterly), School Psychology Review, School Psychology International, and the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation. Based on a 40-year timeframe (1980–2020) a total of 28 articles were found. Social justice topical articles demonstrated an increasing trend during this period, with the dominant research theme being how to define the term social justice. Surprisingly, when comparing published research on social justice to the current initiatives being implemented by practice organizations such as the NASP Social Justice Committee, there is evidence of a rare practice-to-research gap. Meaning that practice is tackling topics (e.g., White privilege and school-to-prison pipeline) that are not present in the social justice research literature. Implications are discussed in terms of encouraging proponents of social justice to begin to expand their research beyond definition rhetoric to include outcomes associated with applied psychological outcomes.

Forged By AIDS, Storied NYC Residence Boosts Aging In Place

Driven by a mission of justice, Manhattan Plaza and Penn South create beloved communities that care for people at all stages of life.

In Pursuit of Engaged Learning with Latinx Students: Expanding Learning beyond Classrooms through Performance-Based Engagements

Background/ContextUrban public high schools serving low-SES communities historically have underserved nondominant culturally and linguistically diverse students by divesting them of social and cultural resources and delivering impoverished curriculum and instruction. Associated with such subtractive schooling, many Latinx youth have suffered from academic disengagement and limited academic success and futures.Focus of StudyThis study investigates one school's efforts to promote Latinx students’ academic and intellectual engagement through a schoolwide system of performance-based assessments (PBAs) that featured meaningful, embodied, discourse-rich activities, many of which occurred beyond classrooms during after-school hours. We examine the scope of PBA opportunity across the school and the ways educators enacted PBAs to optimize nondominant students’ engagement. We also report the organizational structures that enabled the PBA system and some implementation challenges/tensions.SettingThis study features Mario Molina High, a small urban Title 1 public California school serving 262 students, of whom 90% received free/reduced-price lunches, 76% were Latinx, and 33% were emergent bilinguals. MHS emphasized an explicit social justice mission and had a record of some success with Latinx students, as measured by graduation and college-going rates, course completion for admission to California universities, and standardized achievement tests.Research DesignWe treat MHS as a “critical case,” holding strategic importance to the problem on which the study focuses. Using qualitative methods, we employed a bi-level design to uncover links between school organization and instruction.Data Collection and AnalysisWe drew on 240 hours of school observations, with special attention to PBA enactments. We also drew on 45 interviews with key stakeholders; faculty survey responses; school documents; student work; and email list communications. Our analysis involved thematic coding, memos, metamatrices, and situated/discourse analyses.Findings/ResultsMHS's PBAs drew school actors out of the spatial/temporal boundaries of classrooms and fostered serious, spirited, interactive spaces for learning. Three aspects of PBAs—authentic audiences, embodied action, and dialogic argumentation—transformed these assessments into what we call performance-based engagements (PBEs). This shift enhanced students’ engagement and contributed to a schoolwide culture of engaged learning. We argue that sustained participation in PBEs encouraged students to experiment with and adopt expanded practice-based identities as critical thinkers and change agents.Conclusions/RecommendationsOur study suggests how the schoolwide implementation of dynamic, innovative, and culturally sustaining forms of assessment can expand and revivify traditional school learning in ways that promote the academic and intellectual engagement of historically underserved students.

Las comisiones por la verdad en América Latina. El caso de Iguala (México)

En este artí­culo se describe qué es una comisión de la verdad y la justicia, y cómo se ha desarrollado la creación de estos organismos en algunos paí­ses de América Latina. Se destaca la relación de las comisiones con la garantí­a de los derechos a la verdad, al acceso a la justicia y a la reparación integral del daño de las ví­ctimas. De igual manera, se profundiza en la instauración e investigación de dichas comisiones, particularmente, en el caso de la desaparición de los 43 estudiantes de la Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos en Iguala, México, un caso emblemático de violación a los derechos humanos. En este sentido, se presentan los hechos ocurridos en el caso, la investigación que realizó la Procuradurí­a de Justicia de la República (PGR) y las deficiencias que señalaron los organismos internacionales de derechos humanos. Por último, se presentan algunos obstáculos que la comisión por la verdad y la justicia para el caso Iguala debe afrontar para garantizar los derechos de las ví­ctimas y hacer justicia.

Access to Justice in Rural Arkansas

This policy brief, written for and distributed by the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission, reports two sets of data related to the shortage of lawyers in rural Arkansas. The first set of data regards the number of lawyers practicing in each of the state’s 25 lowest-population counties and the ratio of lawyers per 1,000 residents in each of those counties. This data is juxtaposed next to the poverty rate and population of each of county. The policy brief also reports the results of a survey of Arkansas lawyers and law students, the latter from both the University of Arkansas Fayetteville Law School and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock/Bowen School of Law. These surveys probed respondents’ attitudes toward rural practice, among other matters. The policy brief reports a summary of those responses. Finally, the policy brief reports on a 2015 legislative proposal aimed at alleviating the shortage of lawyers serving rural Arkansans. This policy brief is a forerunner to a fuller, academic analysis of these and other data sets relevant to the geography of access to justice in Arkansas. That analysis will appear in an article that will be published by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Journal (forthcoming 2015). The authors anticipate that these investigations in Arkansas may provide a model for other states concerned about the shortage of lawyers working in rural areas.

PsyD Programs in Counseling Psychology: Current Status and Future Directions

This article depicts the unique integration of science and practice found in Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) programs. To dispel myths and provide accurate information about the counseling psychology PsyD degree, survey and interview data from all nine American Psychological Association (APA)–accredited counseling psychology PsyD programs are presented. We argue that embracing PsyD programs within a unified counseling psychology training structure and value system has advantages for the field, including providing a mechanism to foster counseling psychology’s reach and social justice mission. Given the newly-articulated professional competencies of the APA Standards of Accreditation, we also suggest that maintaining counseling psychology training consistency across both Doctor of Philosophy and PsyD programs has the potential to better meet counseling psychologist career trajectories and workforce needs.

Meenoostahtan Minisiwin: First Nations Family Justice "Pathways to Peace"

Community justice initiatives are now common in Canada, both for young offenders and in adult criminal cases; there are only a few examples of alternative methods for dealing with justice issues in the area of mandated child welfare services. The initiative outlined in this paper represents one of the most comprehensive family justice initiatives in First Nations Child and Family Services in Canada. Meenoostahtan Minisiwin: First Nations Family Justice offers a new way of addressing conflict in child and family matters, outside of the regular Child and Family Services (CFS) and court systems. It incorporates the traditional peacemaking role that has existed for centuries in Northern Manitoba Cree communities, alongside contemporary family mediation. The program brings together family, extended family, community members, Elders, social workers and community service providers in the resolution of child protection concerns through the use of properly trained Okweskimowewak (family mediators). The Okweskimowewak’s role involves assisting participants to articulate their personal ‘truth’ (dabwe) and to hear and respect the dabwe of others; to create a safe and nurturing context by addressing inherent power imbalances; to explore the root causes of family conflict in order to address the long term best interests of children; and to facilitate innovative and collaborative planning outcomes for families. The program was developed by the Awasis Agency of Northern Manitoba, a mandated First Nations Child and Family Services agency, although it receives its services mandate from the Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) Exectuive. It is jointly funded by the Aboriginal Justice Strategy of Justice Canada and the Manitoba Department of Family Services and Housing. Overall direction for the program is provided by the First Nations Family Justice Committee, a sub-committee of the MKO Exectuive Director of Awasis Agency, and representative chiefs of the MKO region. The program currently employs a Program Coordinator, two full time regional Okweskimowewak, two full time community-based Okweskimowewak and an administrative assistant. Since its inception in 1999, the program has received referrals involving more than seven hundred families, including well over 1900 children and 1500 volunteer participants. Services have been provided in seventeen First Nation communities in Northern Manitoba as well as in Thompson, Winnipeg, The Pas, and Gillam. The Meenoostahtan Minisiwin program responds to all aspects of mandated child welfare, as well as other situations where the best interests of children are in jeopardy. These have included mediating care placement arrangements; child-parent conflicts; family-agency or family-agency-system conflicts; assisting in the development of service plans in neglect and abuse cases; advocating on behalf of families attempting to access services; family violence; larger community-wide conflicts; and working to address systemic problems which impact the lives of First Nations children and families. We believe that by establishing processes which focus on restoring balance and harmony within families and communities, we are working towards an overall increase in the health and wellness of community members. And you who would understand justice,
 How shall you, unless you
 Look upon all deeds In the fullness of light?
 Only then shall you know that the erect
 And the fallen are but one
 man standing in
 The twilight between the
 Night of his pigmy-self
 And the day of his god-self.
 K. Gibran

Towards inclusive scholarly publishing: developments in the university press community

This article provides an overview of the ways in which the members of the Association of University Presses are working towards more inclusive practices in scholarly publishing. The authors consider the Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship Program (now in its fourth year), the work of the Association’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, the Gender, Equity and Cultures of Respect Task Force and the new Equity, Justice and Inclusion Committee. They also look at press-based working groups and several ‘Toolkits for Equity’ that are currently in development. The volunteers engaged in these and other efforts are working to document how bias has shaped universities and university presses, to propose actions to disrupt this powerful force and to share what they have learned with their colleagues as well as with the larger scholarly publishing and academic communities.

The (Un)Intended Consequences of M&A Regulation

Economic (Bhagwat, Dam and Harford, 2016), political (Cao, Li and Liu, 2019), and policy (Nam and Hieu, 2017; Bonaime, Gulen and Ion, 2018) uncertainty affect merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. In this paper, we use Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) interventions in the M&A market to investigate whether regulatory uncertainty also matters. Our results support this conjecture. Using the Hoberg and Phillips (2010) similarity scores to identify product market competitors, we uncover a clear and significant DOJ/FTC intervention deterrence effect on future M&A transaction attempts. This deterrence effect is driven by the length of the investigation procedure, a principal factor that exacerbates regulatory uncertainty. Our results identify an (un)intended channel through which M&A regulation hampers efficient resources allocation.

Armenia's Military Aggression Against Azerbaijan: Violation of the Rights of Captives and Hostages

International documents are important mechanism for protecting the rights of citizens in armed conflicts, and these documents can help the UN Security Council to protect human rights. International humanitarian law is reflected in three documents: 1907 The Hague Conventions respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its annex, Protocol Additional to the Geneva conventions of 12 August 1949, and 1977 Geneva conventions relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) and other international law’s documents reflecting the principle of respect for human rights. These international conventions have repeatedly been violated by Armenia, which is a member of the UN. According to the information of the State Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons dated February 1, 2019, the number of missing persons registered by the State Committee is 3,888. Most of these people were killed in Armenian captivity, committed suicide because of torture, illness, and the rest were hidden by Armenians and being used in heavy physical work in Armenia and occupied Azerbaijani territories. As a universal organization, the UN Security Council can force Armenia to comply with international humanitarian law. Referring to resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council, the International Criminal Tribunal for Khojaly should be established and criminals should be punished. The International Court of Justice Commission can be established to regulate legal matters concerning criminals and this Commission should cooperate closely with the International Court of Justice, the Human Rights Council, the Compensation Commission, and conduct joint investigations.