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The Possibility of popular justice : a case study of community mediation in the United States / edited by Sally Engle Merry and Neal Milner.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Law, meaning, and violence.
- Law, meaning, and violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)--California--San Francisco.
- Evaluation research (Social action programs).
- Neighborhood justice centers--California--San Francisco.
- Neighborhood justice centers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (501 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1995, c1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Can popular justice ever be a real alternative to the violence and coercion of state law?.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Part 1: Defining Popular Justice""; ""Introduction / Sally Engle Merry and Neal Milner""; ""Sorting Out Popular Justice / Sally Engle Merry""; ""The Future of Alternative Dispute Resolution: Reflections on ADR as a Social Movement / Peter S. Adler""; ""Evaluation of Community-Justice Programs / Kem Lowry""; ""Part 2: San Francisco Community Boards and the Meaning of Community Mediation""; ""Community Boards: An Analytic Profile / Fredric L. DuBow and Craig McEwen""
- ""Organizing for Community Mediation: The Legacy of Community Boards of San Francisco as a Social-Movement Organization / Douglas R. Thomson and Fredric L. DuBow""""Justice from Another Perspective: The Ideology and Developmental History of the Community Boards Program / Raymond Shonholtz""; ""What Mediation Training Says�or Doesn't Say�about the Ideology and Culture of North American Community-Justice Programs / Vicki Shook and Neal Milner""
- ""Dispute Transformation, the Influence of a Communication Paradigm of Disputing, and the San Francisco Community Boards Program / Judy H. Rothschild""""Police and ""Nonstranger"" Conflicts in a San Francisco Neighborhood: Notes on Mediation and Intimate Violence / Fredric L. DuBow with Elliot Currie""; ""Part 3: Contested Words: Community, Justice, Empowerment, and Popular""; ""The Paradox of Popular Justice: A Practitioner's View / John Paul Lederach and Ron Kraybill""
- ""Local People, Local Problems, and Neighborhood Justice: The Discourse of ""Community"" in San Francisco Community Boards / Barbara Yngvesson""""Community Organizing through Conflict Resolution / Christine B. Harrington""; ""When Is Popular Justice Popular? / Laura Nader""; ""The Impossibility of Popular Justice / Peter Fitzpatrick""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-60474-0
- 9786612604744
- 0-472-02399-3
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