公平正义与当代中国市民社会的构建

平等优位于自由的传统,社会主义的本质要求,公平问题的凸显,决定了当代中国必须构建公平正义的市民社会。公平正义的市民社会是民主、自由、和谐等价值实现的社会根基。构建公平正义的市民社会的基本方略是：规范政府行为,建立服务型政府,提升政策的公共性;培育公民文化,发挥公共媒体和知识分子在多元利益表达中的积极作用;公平合理地配置教育资源,推行针对弱势群体的＂差别化＂的教育政策;明晰权力与市场的边界,限制市场垄断,塑造公平合理的市场竞争环境;拓宽社会保障范围,建立针对社会弱势群体＂底线公平＂的社会保障制度;积极推动弱势群体的社会组织建设,提升弱势群体的利益博弈能力。     

能动司法与司法改革

回到事实本身是澄清能动司法相关是非的基础和前提.能动司法既不是新发明,也不是舶来品,中国当下的能动司法是司法改革政策调整后人民司法传统复兴的产物.能动司法强调的是司法中人的作用,其本质上是一种贤人司法.最理想的社会治理图景是在拥有法治的同时也拥有贤能的司法者,故作为贤人司法的能动司法具有普世的价值和广阔的发展前景.中国司法改革的目标和使命是建立和健全一套符合法治精神的现代司法制度,能动只是中国司法改革过程中应当固守的一种道德优势,如果在还没有实现法治之时就将主要精力用于追求司法者的贤能上则是改革的错位和跑题.     

马克思恩格斯正义思想探析

马克思恩格斯的正义思想是马克思主义理论体系的重要组成部分.马克思、恩格斯是在批判资产阶级正义观和空想社会主义正义观的基础上阐发其正义思想的.而资产阶级正义观和空想社会主义正义观又源于西方正义思想传统,马克思恩格斯的正义思想也是在批判继承西方正义思想传统的基础上形成的.因此,必须把握西方正义思想的发展脉络,进而明晰马克思、恩格斯对资产阶级正义观的批判思想,从而准确把握马克思恩格斯正义思想的内核.与此同时,澄清长期以来西方学者关于马克思正义观的几个争议问题可以更好地探究马克思恩格斯正义思想的内涵.     

论公正廉洁司法实现的制度保障

公正廉洁司法的实现是一项复杂的社会工程,传统司法中的工具主义和文本主义遮蔽了司法与制度、政策、实践之间的关系。从制度构建、政策制定和实践运行三个层面透视,并将公正廉洁司法与公平正义、民众认同、司法为民这三大导向性的价值目标相结合,公正廉洁司法的实现就会呈现出一条清晰路径：以制度创新为前提,重视政策制定,并将二者纳入实施机制之中,经由此三个维度各有侧重、互有指涉的制度保障,公正廉洁司法就一定能实现。     

Increasing access to higher education and employment,Ethiopian immigrants’ in Israel

In modern societies, where higher education serves as a significant vehicle of integration, the inclusion of immigrants within the realm of higher education is not a foregone conclusion. This is the result of cultural, economic, and social gaps. In some cases, the integration process is blocked prior to the stage of academic studies. This situation has resulted in the creation of a teacher education program for Ethiopian students in Israeli academic colleges of education for the purpose of bridging the gap between higher education and employment, and increasing the chances of the graduates’ admission into the field of teaching. The aim of the present study was to examine the success of the program, emphasizing the graduates’ integration into the teaching profession. It was conducted by means of Mixed Methods research. An examination of the data indicates that a substantial number of graduates were integrated into various educational settings. It also reveals the improving status of the graduates as well as the influence of the program on their personal and professional development.     

Social Work and Criminal Justice

SUMMARY

We shall begin with the principal, and complicated, conclusion: Regrettably, the social work profession has largely abandoned the criminal justice field. That is not to say that social workers are not employed in criminal justice settings. Certainly they are. Significant numbers of social workers earn their living as probation and parole officers, caseworkers in public defender offices, counselors in correctional institutions and halfway houses, and so on. As a profession, however, social work no longer has a major presence in the criminal justice field (Gibelman and Schervish, 1993). Relatively few social workers embark on their professional education with the aim of employment in the criminal justice field. Virtually no courses in social work education programs focus explicitly or comprehensively on criminal justice (Knox and Roberts, 2002; McNeece and Roberts, 1997). Workshops offered at professional conferences or continuing education seminars rarely focus on criminal justice issues per se. And, relatively little serious scholarship on criminal justice issues is authored by social workers.

Interestingly, this has not always been the state of affairs. Earlier in the profession's history, social workers were much more visible and vocal participants in dialogue, debate, research, and practice related to criminal justice. Ideally-in light of social work's unique perspectives on practice and social problems, and the profession's noble value base-the profession will reclaim its preoccupation with criminal justice. As Sarri (2001) concludes with respect to social workers' involvement in the juvenile justice system in particular:

Thirty years ago, social workers were in leadership positions in juvenile justice in the majority of states. In the 1980s, a gradual decline began in agencies and in social work education for practice in juvenile justice. Some have suggested that the decline was at least partially due to professional resistance to working in coercive settings with involuntary clients. However, given the millions of people now caught up in the criminal justice system who are not receiving the social services they desperately need, it is a priority that social work return to a more central role in criminal justice. (p. 453)     

Rethinking youth voice and institutional power: Reflections from inside a service learning partnership in a California juvenile hall

This article shares the dilemmas that emerge from a community service project that engages students in a systematic critique of the juvenile justice system from the inside. It explores how competing images of youth (as dangerous thugs, vulnerable children and kids who have made bad choices) coexist uneasily within the juvenile justice system and significantly shape and constrain this community service learning project. They influence how volunteers understand their experiences and relationships with students inside, and they shape how young people in the system speak about their own lives, the inequalities they see around them, and the juvenile justice system itself. By exploring these dynamics this article aims to develop a more nuanced understanding of youth voice.     

Work–Family Conflict and Perceived Justice as Mediators of Outcomes of Women's Multiple Workload

Negative impacts of work–family conflicts and the imbalanced division of family work on women's relationship satisfaction and well-being have gained substantial attention from the literature over the last years. The current research adds to the literature by testing the experience of work–family conflicts and perceived justice in the division of family work as possible mediators between women's workloads resulting from the familial and professional tasks and women's relationship satisfaction and well-being. The analysis involves both work-to-family and family-to-work conflicts as well as perceptions of procedural and distributive justice in the division of family work. Structural equation modeling analyses of data were performed with a sample of 1,512 women from dual-earner couples with young children taken from seven European countries. Results support the importance of women's family-to-work conflict and perceptions of justice of childcare and household labor as mediator variables between family workloads, relationship satisfaction, and well-being. Time spent on paid work proved to have an effect on women's well-being, via work-to-family conflict.     

Fathers in Prison

ABSTRACT

The parenting roles and responsibilities of incarcerated men have not traditionally been considered an important public concern. The impact of criminal justice policies and practices on family functioning has rarely been addressed by policy makers or family scholars and men's family obligations have not been a priority for the individuals responsible for the safety and security of correctional institutions. Similarly, and with few exceptions, fathers in prison have been out of sight and out of mind of community organizations concerned with family life and children's wellbeing. Several recent developments challenge this historical approach to handling parental incarceration and responsible fatherhood initiatives involving incarcerated fathers are being promoted. This article examines the individual and societal issues that must be addressed if responsible fatherhood among incarcerated men is to become a serious social goal. It presents an overview of the complex family roles and relationships of incarcerated men and describes ways in which individual situations and family preferences affect their ability to function as parents. Analyses of prison location strategies and communication regulations and the post-release environment are used to show how public policies influence and shape family relationships and responsible fatherhood. The article concludes with an agenda for research to guide informed and humane policy decisions.     

Authentic leadership and its influence on group cohesion and organizational identification: the role of organizational justice as a mediating variable / El liderazgo auténtico y su influencia sobre la cohesión grupal y la identificación organizacional: el papel de la justicia organizacional como variable mediadora

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyse the relationship between authentic leadership, group cohesion, organizational identification and the potential effect of organizational justice as a mediating variable. Partial Least Squares (PLS) modelling was used to analyse the data from 210 employees at several Spanish companies. The results showed that organizational justice as a mediator in the proposed model and positive relationships among the variables studied. These findings are discussed taking into account the importance of the authentic leadership model in the study of group processes in organizations and the development of policies and behaviours that promote ethics, transparency and justice in companies.