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Social exclusivity or justice for all? Access to justice in the fourteenth century

REA Auditado

The outlaw, residing in the idyllic ‘wood of Belregard’, is a powerful and evocative image in medieval literature. Embodying a strong sense of social justice and imbued with utopian qualities, both the outlaw figure and the greenwood can be taken to symbolise the aspirations, or perhaps more appropriately the plight, of those who had no apparent prospect of ‘justice’, either through lack of access to the legal system or on account of their treatment within it.

Tema: general: 

• Leyes, Política y Gobierno›Leyes

Re-presenting Geopolitics: ethnography, social movement activism, and nonviolent geographies

REA Auditado

This thesis starts from the premise that Geopolitics is performative, an iterative discourse “of visualising global space…reproduced in the governing principles of geographic thought and through the practices of statecraft” (Agnew 1998:11). During the last decade, two dominant discourses have shaped the contemporary geopolitical imagination – the ‘war on terror’ and ‘climate change’. These have steered conceptualisations of security and insecurity - performative iterations of who, where, and what poses a threat.

Tema: general: 

• General

Inquiring into Adultery and Other Wicked Deeds: Episcopal Justice in Tenth- and Early Eleventh-Century Italy

REA Auditado

This article suggests that Italian bishops often had recourse to spiritual penalties to exercise their coercive authority over serious offences during the tenth and early eleventh centuries. Tracing the history of episcopal jurisdiction over serious offences from the ninth century, where it was supported by the Carolingian rulers, into the post-Carolingian world of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, it argues for continuity between the earlier and later periods.

Tema: general: 

• Ciencias Sociales›Ciencias Sociales (General)

Experiences of restorative justice in settings with children and young people: The accounts of professionals and young people.

REA Auditado

Paper 1:
Examining the views of restorative practitioners about the effects of their professional practices. Abstract
The Youth Justice Board and the Department for Education share the common goal of reducing offending and harmful behaviour in children and young people (Ministry of Justice, 2010; DfE, 2011). In both sectors, evidence for the effectiveness of practices based upon the principles of restorative justice (RJ) is mounting, yet there is a distinct lack of theoretical clarity regarding the psychological mechanisms through which such practices work.

Tema: general: 

• General

Arbeitslosengeld II: Arbeitsanreize und Verteilungsgerechtigkeit

REA Auditado

In order to analyze work incentives and distributive justice of the German
Unemployment Benefit system (Arbeitslosengeld II (ALG II)) it is necessary
to quantify the work effort and the value of commodities produced within a
household for different family types. Since such variables are not
directly observable, this study uses survey data based on a questionnaire.
It is shown that ALG II suffers from two fundamental problems: first, work
incentives for households with many children are very small; second, ALG
II disadvantages multi-member households, in particular households with
children.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía›Negocios

An Investigation of Three Greek Mathematics Teachers’ Conceptions of the Assessment of Pupil Attainment in Mathematics and its Socio-political Dimension

REA Auditado

The present study is located within a broader problematic of how inequality is generated and legitimated within schools. It has as its centre of focus three Greek mathematics teachers who are seen as mediating forces between state curricular intentions and the learners. Having social justice as my primary motive for conducting this thesis research, I use the critical theoretic research paradigm as a guiding framework in order to investigate the teachers’ conceptions of the socio-political dimension of the assessment of pupil attainment in mathematics.

Tema: general: 

• Ciencias Sociales›Educación

JOHN RAWLS' POLITICAL LIBERALISM: IMPLICATIONS FOR NIGERIA'S DEMOCRACY

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ABSTRACT
Since Nigeria’s independence in 1960, the country has continuously been confronted with among other issues, the problem of a weak and unjust social structure resulting in widespread social injustice. It is at the root of most of the crises and social malaise of the Nigerian society and is made more serious by the problems associated with ethnicity and arbitrariness by the state and government.

Tema: general: 

• General

Philosophical Inspirations for Violent Fiction and Drama: Heinrich von Kleist and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) is renowned as an author who posed a radical challenge to the prevailing intellectual, aesthetic and ethical orthodoxies of his age. Recently, his elusive works have frequently been seen to represent a poetics of irony that relentlessly deconstructs the philosophical paradigms of Idealism and reflects a Romantic, even postmodern, view of the fundamental ambiguities of the world.

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• General

William Godwin on the morality of freedom

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This article argues that a commitment to individual freedom plays a crucial role in William Godwin's utilitarian political theory. In his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Godwin argues that morality is grounded not in rights but rather in duties and that each individual has a constant obligation to act in the way most conducive to the general good.

Tema: general: 

• Leyes, Política y Gobierno›Ciencias Políticas›Ciencias Políticas (General)

‘So presumably things have moved on since then?’ The management of risk allegations in child contact dispute resolution

REA Auditado

Over the past decade, considerable efforts have been made to ensure that domestic violence and child protection issues are identified, assessed, and managed appropriately within the family justice system. These efforts follow sustained criticism that allegations of harm have been previously overlooked or marginalised within court processes, including in private law cases concerning residence and contact disputes following parental separation. In this article, however, we argue that allegations of harm continue to be marginalised in court-based dispute resolution.

Tema: general: 

• Leyes, Política y Gobierno›Leyes