Author(s): Sally Engle Merry, Neil Milner
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Year: 1995
Language: English
Pages: 501
Contents......Page 12
Part 1: Defining Popular Justice......Page 14
Introduction / Sally Engle Merry and Neal Milner......Page 16
Sorting Out Popular Justice / Sally Engle Merry......Page 44
The Future of Alternative Dispute Resolution: Reflections on ADR as a Social Movement / Peter S. Adler......Page 80
Evaluation of Community-Justice Programs / Kem Lowry......Page 102
Part 2: San Francisco Community Boards and the Meaning of Community Mediation......Page 136
Community Boards: An Analytic Profile / Fredric L. DuBow and Craig McEwen......Page 138
Organizing for Community Mediation: The Legacy of Community Boards of San Francisco as a Social-Movement Organization / Douglas R. Thomson and Fredric L. DuBow......Page 182
Justice from Another Perspective: The Ideology and Developmental History of the Community Boards Program / Raymond Shonholtz......Page 214
What Mediation Training Says—or Doesn't Say—about the Ideology and Culture of North American Community-Justice Programs / Vicki Shook and Neal Milner......Page 252
Dispute Transformation, the Influence of a Communication Paradigm of Disputing, and the San Francisco Community Boards Program / Judy H. Rothschild......Page 278
Police and "Nonstranger" Conflicts in a San Francisco Neighborhood: Notes on Mediation and Intimate Violence / Fredric L. DuBow with Elliot Currie......Page 342
Part 3: Contested Words: Community, Justice, Empowerment, and Popular......Page 368
The Paradox of Popular Justice: A Practitioner's View / John Paul Lederach and Ron Kraybill......Page 370
Local People, Local Problems, and Neighborhood Justice: The Discourse of "Community" in San Francisco Community Boards / Barbara Yngvesson......Page 392
Community Organizing through Conflict Resolution / Christine B. Harrington......Page 414
When Is Popular Justice Popular? / Laura Nader......Page 448
The Impossibility of Popular Justice / Peter Fitzpatrick......Page 466
Contributors......Page 488
Index......Page 492
