Category Archives: Global

“Islam: A Very Short Introduction” by Malise Ruthven, 2012

July 25, 2019 9:54 pm / Justice eReader Editorial Board

Submitted by: Hyunhee Park, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

To read online: “Islam: A Very Short Introduction”

“Islam dominates the news, often in stories filled with images of violence. Yet these disturbing images are at odds with a faith that most adherents–who now number over a billion worldwide–would regard as no less pacific than Buddhism or Christianity. Indeed, the word Islam in Arabic means “self-surrender” and is closely related to salaam, the word for peace.”

This is a library resource and is available to faculty and students using their John Jay login.

Posted in: 2011 - Present, Global, Part 2: Subjects and Topics in Justice (ALL) / Tagged: Global, History, Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Tradition

“Chronology of Correctional History” by Greg Newbold, 1999

July 24, 2019 5:41 pm / Justice eReader Editorial Board

Submitted by: Anissa Helie, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

To read online: “Chronology of Correctional History”

“Newbold presents a chronology of correctional history, starting with c. 4500 BC with the earliest written records from cuneiform impressions in clay tablets in the civilization of Sumer Mesopotamia. When the German philosopher Georg Hegel commented that governments have never learned anything from history, he was noting the capacity of governments to repeat the errors of the past. Similarly, in the historical models of men such as Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee, patterns of social organization are seen to replicate themselves, revolving in and out of fashion regardless of their practical value. As the following chronology demonstrates, the same tendency can be seen in criminal justice.”

This is a library resource. It is accessible using your John Jay login. It was accessed from the Proquest database: Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 10:1, (1999), pp. 87-100.

Posted in: 1990-1999, Global, Part 2: Subjects and Topics in Justice (ALL) / Tagged: Criminal Justice, History, Legal Justice, Political Justice, Sociology

“General Jurisprudence: Understanding Law from a Global Perspective” by William Twining, 2009

July 19, 2019 10:10 pm / Justice eReader Editorial Board

Submitted by: Catherine Kemp, Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

To read online or download: “General Jurisprudence: Understanding Law from a Global Perspective”

From book: “This book explores how globalisation influences the understanding of law. Adopting a broad concept of law and a global perspective, it critically reviews mainstream Western traditions of academic law and legal theory. Its central thesis is that most processes of so-called ‘globalisation’ take place at sub-global levels and that a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law should encompass all levels of social relations and the legal ordering of these relations. It illustrates how the mainstream Western canon of jurisprudence needs to be critically reviewed and extended to take account of other legal traditions and cultures. Written by the one of the foremost scholars in the field, this important work presents an exciting alternative vision of jurisprudence. It challenges the traditional canon of legal theorists and guides the reader through a field undergoing seismic changes in the era of globalisation. This is essential reading for all students of jurisprudence and legal theory.”

This is a library resource available for John Jay faculty and students, using their JJ credentials for a login.

Twining, W. (2009). General jurisprudence : Understanding law from a global perspective. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com

Posted in: 2000 - 2010, Global, Part 2: Subjects and Topics in Justice (ALL) / Tagged: Criminal Justice, Global, Legal Justice, Sociology, Tradition

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

January 18, 2019 10:58 pm / Justice eReader Editorial Board

Submitted by: Matthew Perry, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, John Jay College

Click here to read: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

“I have found that students often use the language of “rights” when discussing the concepts of justice and (especially) injustice. This document is a valuable tool for getting students to think precisely about the concept of human rights, and the historical development of these ideas. The very idea of “human” rights supposes that these rights always have (or should have) existed. This claim, inherent to the document, could be discussed by students: Have some rights always existed, even if not honored? Or are rights necessarily specific to the time and place of their articulation? Will new human rights be discovered or invented in next centuries and millennium? It’s useful to have students consider what is mentioned in the original declaration, and what is left out. Students can then discuss how this document helps to define or explain the concept of justice.” (Comment by Perry, 2019)

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was issued by the United Nations in 1948. It is an important document because it represents a global (although there’s room for discussion of this point given the limited African and Asian membership in the UN at the time) effort to establish a common understanding of what constitutes “human rights”—a critical issue in modern understandings of justice.

Free and open access.

Posted in: 1900-1949, Global, Part 1: Texts for Teaching and Learning about Justice / Tagged: Global, History, Inequality/Equality, Rights/Human Rights

Category Archives: Global

“Islam: A Very Short Introduction” by Malise Ruthven, 2012

“Chronology of Correctional History” by Greg Newbold, 1999

“General Jurisprudence: Understanding Law from a Global Perspective” by William Twining, 2009

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

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