Unequal Justice in Massachusetts
Author | : Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Court administration |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Court administration |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court. Access to Justice Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Legal aid |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ellen Cohn |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2004-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780131701700 |
This state-specific guide to criminal justice includes comprehensive coverage of criminal law and the courts, the police, corrections and the juvenile justice system. Also included are state-specific crime statistics as well as coverage of sentencing, drugs and crime and capital punishment.
Author | : Frederick Wilmot-Smith |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674243730 |
A philosophical and legal argument for equal access to good lawyers and other legal resources. Should your risk of wrongful conviction depend on your wealth? We wouldn’t dream of passing a law to that effect, but our legal system, which permits the rich to buy the best lawyers, enables wealth to affect legal outcomes. Clearly justice depends not only on the substance of laws but also on the system that administers them. In Equal Justice, Frederick Wilmot-Smith offers an account of a topic neglected in theory and undermined in practice: justice in legal institutions. He argues that the benefits and burdens of legal systems should be shared equally and that divergences from equality must issue from a fair procedure. He also considers how the ideal of equal justice might be made a reality. Least controversially, legal resources must sometimes be granted to those who cannot afford them. More radically, we may need to rethink the centrality of the market to legal systems. Markets in legal resources entrench pre-existing inequalities, allocate injustice to those without means, and enable the rich to escape the law’s demands. None of this can be justified. Many people think that markets in health care are unjust; it may be time to think of legal services in the same way.
Author | : Samuel Moyn |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2018-04-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 067498482X |
“No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.” —Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal “Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness.” —George Soros The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in recent decades, a commitment to material equality has quietly disappeared. In its place, economic liberalization has emerged as the dominant force. In this provocative book, Samuel Moyn considers how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the demands of broader social and economic justice. Moyn places the human rights movement in relation to this disturbing shift and explores why the rise of human rights has occurred alongside exploding inequality. “Moyn asks whether human-rights theorists and advocates, in the quest to make the world better for all, have actually helped to make things worse... Sure to provoke a wider discussion.” —Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal “A sharpening interrogation of the liberal order and the institutions of global governance created by, and arguably for, Pax Americana... Consistently bracing.” —Pankaj Mishra, London Review of Books “Moyn suggests that our current vocabularies of global justice—above all our belief in the emancipatory potential of human rights—need to be discarded if we are work to make our vastly unequal world more equal... [A] tour de force.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Author | : Jody David Armour |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-08 |
Genre | : LAW |
ISBN | : 9781940660684 |
Interrogates conventional assumptions and frames a transformational new way of thinking about law, language, moral judgments, politics, and transgressive art - especially profane genres like gangsta rap - and exposes where racial bias lives in the administration of justice and everyday life
Author | : Jessica T Simes |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0520380339 |
A spatial view of punishment -- The urban model -- Small cities and mass incarceration -- Social services beyond the city : isolation and regional inequity -- Race and communities of pervasive incarceration -- Punishing places -- Beyond punishing places : a research and reform agenda -- Appendix : data and methodology.
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 2017-04-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309452961 |
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.