JUSTICE RESOURCES

ORGANIZATIONS

Alliance for Justice

A national association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, women's, children's and consumer advocacy organizations. Since its inception in 1979, the Alliance has worked to advance the cause of justice for all Americans, strengthen the public interest community's ability to influence public policy, and foster the next generation of advocates. 

Center for Public Justice    
A DC-based public policy and civic education organization that promotes "principled pluralism" - the encouragement of all faiths to flourish in the public square to bring justice to all. Coming from a reformed faith background, CPJ manages to avoid partisan politics and offer thoughtful reflection on cultivating justice for all (with a special focus on faith-based social service providers) in the public arena.

National Institute of Justice     
The Research, Development, and Evaluation Agency of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Sojourners: Christians for Justice and Peace

 
Christian ministry based in Washington, DC seeks to proclaim and practice the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice.

BOOKS

Rawls, John (1999). A Theory of Justice. Belknap Press.
Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition-justice as fairness-and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons.

Rawls, John & Kelly, Erin (2001). Justice as Fairness: A Restatement.

Walker, Samuel et. al. (2003). The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America

. Wadsworth Publishing.
The definitive book on current research and theories of racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination within America's criminal justice system.

VIDEOS

Bono, 54th National Prayer Breakfast Keynote Address. (2Feb2006)

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