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Overview
In Constructive Divorce: Procedural Justice and Sociolegal Reform, the latest volume in the Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences series, author Penelope Eileen Bryan offers a compelling argument that the procedures used to settle divorce disputes yield unjust decisions and poor outcomes for millions of adults and children each year. This well-researched, carefully constructed book discusses the benefits of improving procedural justice in divorce cases (greater compliance with divorce decrees and settlements, enhanced legitimacy of the justice system, improvements to the common good). It then scrutinizes how today's family law system measures up in terms of criteria based in social sciences, such as efficiency, bias, accuracy, consistency, and respect and concern for disputants.Synopsis
In Constructive Divorce: Procedural Justice and Sociolegal Reform, the latest volume in the Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences series, author Penelope Eileen Bryan offers a compelling argument that the procedures used to settle divorce disputes yield unjust decisions and poor outcomes for millions of adults and children each year. This well-researched, carefully constructed book discusses the benefits of improving procedural justice in divorce cases (greater compliance with divorce decrees and settlements, enhanced legitimacy of the justice system, improvements to the common good). It then scrutinizes how today's family law system measures up in terms of criteria based in social sciences, such as efficiency, bias, accuracy, consistency, and respect and concern for disputants.