Justice that Restores

SUMMARY

Restorative justice is a movement within criminal justice that draws from a conception of justice as personal rather than impersonal. This article offers a definition of restorative justice and describes its hallmark programs: victim offender mediation, conferencing, circles, restitution, and community service. It explores the differences between restorative justice and contemporary criminal justice, including their relative strengths. Whereas criminal justice derives from an impersonal conception of justice, restorative justice draws from a personal understanding. Differences between the two views of justice are described, and a brief survey of history and cultures demonstrates that personal conceptions of justice have played, and continue to play, significant roles in shaping societies' responses to crime.     

All that Glittered

Maryna Fraser and Alan Jeeves (eds.) All That Glittered; Selected Correspondence of Lionel Phillips 1890–1924, Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1977, 428 p., R14.     

Changes that cause changes

Beyond determining whether procedures can be manipulated, the real goal for any analysis of “strategic behavior” is to identify all settings where and when this can be done, who can do it, and what they should do. By applying the geometric approach of Saari [7, 8] to the Kemeny's Rule (KR), we demonstrate how surprisingly simple this analysis can be, we identify all three candidate KR strategic behavior, and we show how an almost identical analysis answers most other multiple profile concerns (e.g., the abstention paradox and when voters just make errors). We also introduce new measures, which can be used with any procedure, to compare strategic and other behavior involving “changes.” These measures help to identify settings where it may be more important to worry about honest mistakes than strategic voting. Received: 16 April 1999/Accepted: 29 September 1999     

Vulnerable relational knowing that matters

This paper explores vulnerable relational knowing, and in it we open up our own embodied habits and experiences as feminist academics. We discuss how displaying our academic bodies as naked, both symbolically and physically, enhances and appreciates—instead of hiding—vulnerability. We also discuss how our academic bodies entangle with a range of more-than-human creatures and material surroundings to highlight the multispecies and material nature of vulnerable relational knowing. Two detailed stories, “Intimate sharing of academic knowledge: A recumbent study circle” and “Keropirtti: A place and space to work differently” provide unique examples of the enactment of alternative ways of working in academia, and their analysis demonstrates the potential of vulnerability for embodied relational knowing in academia, which has, to date, been commonly analyzed in the context of writing.     

I,that am curtailed

ABSTRACT

The essay investigates desire in Shakespeare’s Richard III as connected to Deleuze and Guattari’s line of flight and war machine. By following the drawing of the line of flight of betrayal and the setting of Richard’s war machine, and by investigating the constitution of his character as a Body without organs, it traces the production of the plane of immanence of a differential subjectivity where desire is free to become.     

Unearthing Loci that influence life span

It is known that certain hormones are involved in determining longevity (for example, insulin and insulin-like growth factor). Results presented in a paper published in this week's issue of Science allow us to add steroid hormones to this list. Anne Simon and colleagues show for the first time that a sterol hormone--ecdysone of the fly Drosophila melanogaster--regulates life span. In this Perspective, I discuss the implications of this result in the context of gene regulation and mechanisms of aging.     

我所知道的潘石屹

其实,跟老潘的正面交流次数并不多. 也许现在他还不记得我的名字. 但是,凭一个记者的敏锐和女人的直觉,可以告诉你一个真实的潘石屹. 入行之前,潘石屹的名字便如雷贯耳. 当时,看到有关房地产的报道时,总觉得这人怎么这么讨厌,长得跟个书呆子似的还一天到晚老说房价要涨.     

Adelaide Conversations: echoes that resound

Family therapy and Social Justice are vast words that condense (and obscure) many ideas, theories and practices. Family therapy in this country has been shaped by larger Australian conversations and movements around Social Justice, but the relations between Family Therapy and Social Justice are not simple. Looking back over ten years since our last Conference in Adelaide, I recall some personal and political experiences connecting Family Therapy and Social Justice, and go on to argue how newer post-modernist and feminist currents might enrich the links, and “keep the conversation going”.