The Possibility of popular justice
Subtitle: a case study of community mediation in the United States
By: edited by Sally Engle Merry and Neal Milner.
Contributors: Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-; Milner, Neal A.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Series: Law, meaning, and violence
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: Neighborhood justice centers -- California -- San Francisco.; Mediation -- California -- San Francisco.; Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- California -- San Francisco.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Defining popular justice; title: Intoduction / Sally Engle Merry and Neal Milner; title: Sorting out popular justice / Sally Engle Merry; title: The future of alternative dispute resolution: Reflections on ADR as social movement / Peter S. Adler; title: Evaluation of community -justice programs / Ken Lowry; title: pt. 2. San Francisco community boards and the meaning of community mediation; title: Community boards: an analytic profile / Fredric L. DuBow and Craig McEwen; title: Organizing for community mediation: The legacy of community boards of San Francisco as a social-movement organization / Douglas R. Thomason and Fredric L. Dubow; title: Justice from another perspective: The ideology and developmental history of the community boards programs / Raymond Shonholtz; title: What mediation training says-or doesn't say- about the ideology and culture of North American community-justice Programs / Vicki Shook and Neal Milner; title: Dispute transformation, the influence of a communication paradigm of disputing, and the San Francisco community boards program / Judy H. Rothschild; title: Police and "Nonstranger" conflicts in a San Francisco neighborhood: notes on mediation