Injury and Injustice
Injury and Injustice

Author: Anne Bloom

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1108349803

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This book addresses some of the most difficult and important debates over injury and law now taking place in societies around the world. The essays tackle the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Topics include the tension between physical and reputational injuries, the construction of human injuries versus injuries to non-human life, virtual injuries, the normalization and infliction of injuries on vulnerable victims, the question of reparations for slavery, and the paradoxical degradation of victims through legal actions meant to compensate them for their disabilities. Authors include social theorists, social scientists and legal scholars, and the subject matter extends to the Middle East and Asia, as well as North America.

Justice and Equality Here and Now
Justice and Equality Here and Now

Author: Frank S. Lucash

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-04-15

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1501738755

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Eight outstanding scholars contribute to this collection original essays on the philosophical foundations and political implications of egalitarian justice. The positions represented span the political spectrum, and the debate moves back and forth between the theoretical and the practical. Expressing often radically different political points of view, the contributors discuss such topics as individual rights, human good, mutual indebtedness, sexual relations, the family, individual desert, private property, self-ownership, and the welfare state.

Injury Impoverished
Injury Impoverished

Author: Nate Holdren

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-09

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1108488706

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Combining archival research, critical theory, and gender- and disability-analysis, Nate Holdren argues that Progressive Era reform to employee injury law created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally.

The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow

Author: Michelle Alexander

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2020-01-07

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1620971941

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Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system." —Adam Shatz, London Review of Books Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.

Adding Insult to Injury
Adding Insult to Injury

Author: Nancy Fraser

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1789604257

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The collapse of communism, the rise of identity politics, and struggles over global governance have combined to create new challenges for the Left: How to do justice to legitimate claims for multiculturalism and democratization without abandoning the Left's historic-and still indispensable-commitment to economic equality? How to broaden the understanding of injustice by adding cultural and political insult to economic injury? Adding Insult to Injury tracks the debate sparked by Nancy Fraser's controversial effort to combine redistribution, recognition, and representation in a new understanding of social justice. The volume showcases Fraser's critical exchanges with leading thinkers, including Judith Butler, Richard Rorty, Iris Marion Young, Anne Phillips, and Rainer Frost. The result is a wide-ranging and at times contentious exploration of varied approaches to rebuilding the Left.

Judicial Injustice
Judicial Injustice

Author: James Harken

Publisher:

Published: 2008-08-02

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781440400513

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DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOKIn 1996, a middle aged electrical engineer (plaintiff) was injured while working at a contract position in a General Motors plant. Plaintiff filed an injury lawsuit and for this he was retaliated against by his company and General Motors. Plaintiff then filed a retaliation lawsuit against GM and his company. A vindictive district court judge dismissed his case. The case was appealed and because information was withheld that would have damaged defendants' case, the appeals court, in 2004, upheld the lower courts verdict. Attorney fees were then awarded to the defendants. The plaintiff's attorney then backed out of the case and, in the next 4 years, the plaintiff on his own filed 5 additional lawsuits in a futile attempt to get a trial by jury. All court documents are included which proves every point of this judiciary injustice.

Social Injustice and Public Health
Social Injustice and Public Health

Author: Barry S. Levy

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-09-19

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 0199939225

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This second edition of Social Injustice and Public Health is a comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-based resource on the relationship of social injustice to many aspects of public health. With contributions from leading experts in public health, medicine, health, social sciences, and other fields, this integrated book documents the adverse effects of social injustice on health and makes recommendations on what needs to be done to reduce social injustice and thereby improve the public's health. Social Injustice and Public Health is divided into four parts: · The nature of social injustice and its impact on public health · How the health of specific population groups is affected by social injustice · How social injustice adversely affects medical care, infectious and chronic non-communicable disease, nutrition, mental health, violence, environmental and occupational health, oral health, and aspects of international health · What needs to be done, such as addressing social injustice in a human rights context, promoting social justice through public health policies and programs, strengthening communities, and promoting equitable and sustainable human development With 78 contributors who are experts in their respective subject areas, this textbook is ideal for students and practitioners in public health, medicine, nursing, and other health sciences. It is the definitive resource for anyone seeking to better understand the social determinants of health and how to address them to reduce social injustice and improve the public's health.