Economic Justice

About: Economic Justice is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 41600 publications have been published within this topic receiving 661535 citations.

'It's Reducing a Human Being to a Percentage': Perceptions of Justice in Algorithmic Decisions

Abstract: Data-driven decision-making consequential to individuals raises important questions of accountability and justice. Indeed, European law provides individuals limited rights to 'meaningful information about the logic' behind significant, autonomous decisions such as loan approvals, insurance quotes, and CV filtering. We undertake three experimental studies examining people's perceptions of justice in algorithmic decision-making under different scenarios and explanation styles. Dimensions of justice previously observed in response to human decision-making appear similarly engaged in response to algorithmic decisions. Qualitative analysis identified several concerns and heuristics involved in justice perceptions including arbitrariness, generalisation, and (in)dignity. Quantitative analysis indicates that explanation styles primarily matter to justice perceptions only when subjects are exposed to multiple different styles --- under repeated exposure of one style, scenario effects obscure any explanation effects. Our results suggests there may be no 'best' approach to explaining algorithmic decisions, and that reflection on their automated nature both implicates and mitigates justice dimensions.

From Transitional to Transformative Justice: A New Agenda for Practice

Abstract: Transitional justice has become a globally dominant lens through which to approach states addressing legacies of a violent past, most often implemented as a component of larger efforts at liberal statebuilding. From its beginnings as a largely legal approach to human rights violations committed by departed regimes, understandings of transitional justice have expanded to encompass largely state-led practices such as trials, truth-telling, institutional reform and reparations processes. An industry of praxis has emerged, supported by dedicated NGOs and large-scale funding from Western donors. Yet, the performance and impact of transitional justice mechanisms has been at best ambiguous and at times disappointing – critiqued, for example, for treating the symptoms rather than the causes of conflict. This suggests the need for a new agenda for practice, one that offers a concept of justice that is more ‘transformative’.

Officers as Mirrors Policing, Procedural Justice and the (Re)Production of Social Identity

Abstract: Encounters with the criminal justice system shape people's perceptions of the legitimacy of legal authorities, and the dominant explanatory framework for this relationship revolves around the idea that procedurally just practice increases people's positive connections to justice institutions. But there have been few assessments of the idea-central to procedural justice theory-that social identity acts as an important social-psychological bridge in this process. Our contribution in this paper is to examine the empirical links between procedural justice, social identity and legitimacy in the context of policing in Australia. A representative two-wave panel survey of Australians suggests that social identity does mediate the association between procedural justice and perceptions of legitimacy. It seems that when people feel fairly treated by police, their sense of identification with the superordinate group the police represent is enhanced, strengthening police legitimacy as a result. By contrast, unfair treatment signals to people that they do not belong, undermining both identification and police legitimacy. © 2014 The Author.

The political and social ideas of St. Augustine

Abstract: A Note on Texts and TranslationsIntroduction1. The Theology of Fallen Man2. The Psychology of Fallen Man3. Morality and Justice, Natural and Remedial4. The State: The Return of Order upon Disorder5. War and Relations Among States6. Church, State and HeresyConclusionAbbreciationsNotesBibliographyIndex