justice

Contains myths dealing with the subject of justice. The myths are divided into three categories: the code; fortune's wheel; and the mediators.

Examines the related concepts of fairness and justice, and explains the meaning of equal treatment for individuals, families, communities, and nations.

Examines social conditions, laws, and crimes of the 20th century.

After getting a strange charm bracelet from a homeless woman, thirteen-year-old Robyn Forester and new friends join together to fight injustice in their Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood.

Contains short stories, poems, biographical accounts, and essays about justice -- what it is, who determines it, how to achieve it for all, and how to protect the right to it.

Examines the meaning of justice in a variety of situations and asks the reader to morally and politically reflect on each topic.

Presents an examination of the regime of Argentine dictator General Augusto Pinochet, and includes discussion of his murderous seventeen year reign, the global effort to bring him to justice, and his dramatic arrest in London in October 1998. Includes notes, bibliography, and index.

Alex Patrick is date-raped during her junior year at a boarding school largely governed by the students. Her only options are to stay silent or to ask for help from a secret student society.

Presents twenty-six articles debating the effects of victimhood on American society, discussing whether the nation is being tested by increasing claims of oppression, or if recent concessions are an appropriate outcome of women's and civil rights movements.