Practical Justice: Principles, Practice and Social Change

✍ Scribed by Peter Aggleton; Alex Broom; Jeremy Moss

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume engages with questions of justice and equality, and how these can be achieved in modern society. It explores how theory and research can inform policy and practice to bring about real change in people's lives, helping readers understand and interrogate patterns and causes of inequality, while investigating how these might be remedied. Chapters outline ways in which theories of justice inform and are factored into effective actions, programmes and interventions.

The book includes an international selection of case studies. These range from global inequalities in development and health to cross-border conflict; from gender justice to disability violence; from child protection to disability-inclusive research; from illicit drug use to torture prevention; and from prison wellbeing to sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Together, contributors explore:

how social science and humanities scholarship can lead to a better understanding of, and capacity to respond to, key social issues and problems the importance of normative reflection and a concern for principles of justice in pursuit of social change the importance of community voice and grassroots action in the pursuit of justice, equity and equality.
Envisioning a better world - in which concern for the just treatment of all trumps the pursuit of privilege and inequality - Practical Justice: Principles, Practice and Social Change will appeal to students and academics in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, political science, sociology, anthropology, geography and education, and in fields such as policy studies, criminology, healthcare, social work and social welfare.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Practical justice: by way of introduction
Background
From principles to practice
This book
In conclusion
Part I
Perspectives and accounts
1 Concepts of justice and practical injustices
Distributive justice
Historic injustice
Relational justice
The locations of practical justice
Practices required to give effect to acknowledged rights
Conclusion
Notes
References
2 ‘Homeless women’: histories of emotion and justice
Pity and anxiety: ‘homeless women’ considered
Justice and righteous anger: letters from ‘homeless women’
Justice, compassion and shame: the ‘homeless woman’ out of work
Fear and contempt, fascination and pity: the ‘woman vagrant’
Conclusion
Note
References
3 Worlds apart and still no closer to justice: recognition and redress in gendered disability violence
Introduction
Gendered disability violence
Exclusion and entrenchment in the spaces of justice
Why do we need an inclusive justice-based approach?
Mandates for practical justice in gendered disability violence
Conclusions
Notes
References
4 Supporting mental health in low-income communities: implications for justice and equity
Introduction
Mental health and treatment justice
Poverty, pathology and welfare
The medicalisation of distress
Antidepressant medications
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
5 Critical theories of justice and the practice of torture prevention
Introduction
Critical theory and human rights
Ecological, situational and systems theories
The practice of torture prevention
Some new theoretical resources for rethinking agency
Concluding thoughts
Notes
References
6 Poverty in rich countries: damage, difference and possibilities for justice
Explaining poverty: agency and structure
Theorising justice and poverty: recognition, respect, rationality
Claiming practical justice: trauma and damage
Theorising justice and poverty, reprised: desire
Conclusion
References
7 Engaging global institutions to achieve practical justice: the case of sexual rights
Introduction
Sexual rights in technical spaces
Sexual rights in legal spaces
Sexual rights in political spaces
Integrated nature of the three streams
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Part II
From principles to practice
8 Practical justice in social work and social welfare: contested values
Introduction: some historical fragments
Rawls against Nozick – social welfare and the neo-liberal backlash
Professions, power and social justice
Practical cases: disability services and refugee settlement
Personal is (still) political: partnership, progress and social justice
Note
References
9 A just child protection system – is it possible?
Introduction
Child protection system challenges
Conceptions of child protection
Alternative conceptualisation of the child protection system
Disproportionality
Conclusion
Notes
References
10 Collaborative disability-inclusive research and evaluation as a practical justice process
Introduction
Right to participate in research about disability
Collaborating in disability-inclusive research
Spinal Cord Injury Australia research
My Choice Matters evaluation
Implications of collaboration for practice justice
Acknowledgements
References
11 Justice and the political future for Indigenous Australians
Introduction
Justice and rights
Indigenous struggles
Discrediting Indigenous self-determination
Indigenous sovereignty
Recognition and reconciliation politics
The limits of recognition
Recognition and political power
Indigenous resurgence in Australia
Restoration and nationhood
The challenge ahead
Notes
References
12 The serendipity of justice: the case of unaccompanied migrant children becoming ‘adult’ in the UK
Introduction
A sociological discourse of rights and justice
The multiple arbiters of social justice
Discussion and conclusion
Note
References
13 Patient-reported measures as a justice project through involvement of service-user researchers
Introduction
Why service-user involvement is needed when developing patient-reported measures for people who use alcohol and other drugs
Why is there a need for patient-reported measures in alcohol and other drug services?
What does justice mean when working with service-user researchers?
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
14 Unequal justice: the effect of mass incarceration on children’s educational outcomes in the USA – practical implications for policy and programmes
Introduction
Racial and social class differences in children’s experiences with parental incarceration
Outcomes for children of incarcerated parents
Plausible pathways between parental incarceration and negative outcomes for children
Practical justice interventions: some ways forward
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
Note
References
15 Antimicrobial resistance, bacterial relations and social justice
Introduction
The beginnings of a global response
Perfect policies and harsh realities – the case of India
Discussion
Notes
References
16 Fostering change through the pursuit of practical justice in sexual and reproductive health and rights
Introduction
Early response to the HIV epidemic in India
Legalisation of safe abortion in Mozambique
Fostering change: lessons learned through the lens of practical justice
References
Index