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Title The possibility of popular justice : a case study of community mediation in the United States / edited by Sally Engle Merry and Neal Milner.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1995.

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Edition 1st pbk. ed.
Description 1 online resource (xii, 488 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Law, meaning, and violence
Law, meaning, and violence.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Defining popular justice. Introduction / S.E. Merry & N. Milner -- Sorting out popular justice / S.E. Merry -- The future of alternative dispute resolution: reflections on ADR as social movement / P.S. Adler -- Evaluation of community-justice programs / K. Lowry -- pt. 2. San Francisco community boards and the meaning of community mediation. Community boards: an analytic profile / F.L. DuBow & C. McEwen -- Organizing for community mediation: the legacy of community boards of San Francisco as a social-movement organization / D.R. Thomason & F.L. Dubow -- Justice from another perspective: the ideology and developmental history of the community boards programs / R. Shonholtz -- What mediation training says- or doesn't say- about the ideology and culture of North American community-justice programs / V. Shook & N. Milner -- Dispute transformation, the influence of a communication paradigm of disputing, and the San Francisco community boards program / J.H. Rothschild -- Police and "nonstranger" conflicts in a San Francisco neighborhood: notes on mediation and intimate violence / F.L. Dubow & E. Currie -- pt. 3. Contested words: community, justice, empowerment, and popular. The paradox of popular justice: a practitioner's view / J.P. Lederach & R. Kraybill -- Local people, local problems, and neighborhood justice: the discourse of "community" in San Francisco community boards / B. Yngvesson -- Community organizing through conflict resolution / C.B. Harrington -- When is popular justice popular? / L. Nader -- The impossibility of popular justice / P. Fitzpatrick.
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Subject Neighborhood justice centers -- California -- San Francisco.
Neighborhood justice centers.
California -- San Francisco.
Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- California -- San Francisco.
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-2020.
Milner, Neal A.
Other Form: Print version: Possibility of popular justice. 1st pbk. ed. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1995 9780472083442 (OCoLC)34279122
ISBN 9780472023998 (electronic book)
0472023993 (electronic book)
0472083449 (paperback)
0472104268
9780472104260
9780472083442