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Introduction: Procedural Justice, Law and Policy
Author(s) -
Machura Stefan
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9930.00040
Subject(s) - economic justice , democracy , procedural justice , procedural law , law , cognition , political science , law and economics , sociology , psychology , epistemology , politics , philosophy , neuroscience , perception
Over the last few years, procedural justice has become one of the most debated fields in social science and law. Modern thinking about law, democracy and public policy inevitably leads to a consideration of appropriate procedures. Images of such procedures are culturally bound and also formed by individual cognition. The word “fair” seems to encompass the most desired features of procedures.