Talk:Participatory justice

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Weasel words
I've added this tag because the article, particularly the advantages/disadvantages section, contains lines such as "it makes a society ethical" which is neither a empirical statement (it should probably say x has argued that it is more ethical than...") and fairly meaningless without providing a definition of ethical. Similar concerns apply to most of the points on the advantages/disadvantages list. GoddersUK (talk) 02:32, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

first use
> The term "participatory justice" itself, however, was first used by Bellevue, Washington-based attorney Claire Sherman Thomas in 1984

But the book Tools for Conviviality archive.org/details/illich-conviviality/page/34/mode/1up?view=theater (p.34) used the term in 1973, contrasting it with distributive justice 88.90.134.154 (talk) 22:13, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Lead section clean-up
I have tagged this article as needing lead section clean-up because there are more than the two or three paragraphs that MOS:LEADLENGTH suggests are appropriate for an article of between 15,000 and 30,000 characters of readable prose. The long introduction seems to me due to the lead section teasing the reader with some information about the overall topic that is not presented later and in more detail. Wikipedia is not a newspaper or magazine and should not be written like one. While similar, Wikipedia's summary style is subtlety different and should result in a brief self-contained mini-article that tells the reader enough about the topic for them to decide if they want to read more. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 01:27, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Global applicability
After reading this article I am left wondering if this article is of global applicability or is specific to just North American jurisdictions. The article refers to how participatory justice has been practiced in various jurisdictions around the world since ancient times, but seems primarily focused at how the concept has been imported into and applied in North American justice systems in recent times. This suggests there is a whole lot of stuff about how participatory justice is practiced in the rest of the world that is not being explained by this article. There are two options; either limit the article to a specific jurisdiction include or expand the article to include information about the rest of the world. I prefer the latter, because the former means another article needs to be written about the rest of the world's participatory justice system(s). - Cameron Dewe (talk) 01:40, 6 May 2023 (UTC)