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National health program legislation has been becalmed in the Congress for almost 80 years. Despite periodic cries of "crisis," legislation never emerges from committee. Periodically, campaigns have been mounted without success. Tactical efforts to circumvent direct action by legislating bits and pieces of related programs, Medicare and Medicaid, health maintenance organization support, and pre-...

ON 4 AUGUST 1992, THE QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT PASSED THE Juvenile Justice Act 1992 and the Children's Court Act 1992. The legislation, which it is anticipated will be proclaimed in early 1993, repeals the juvenile justice provisions of the Children's Services Act 1965. It provides the legislative framework for the administration of juvenile justice in Queensland, and thus the ethos of this legisl...

This article examines the impact of environmental legislation on sustainability that manifests through the conservation of natural resources and landfills. The developed model is implemented to a real world closed-loop supply chain with recycling activities of electrical equipment in Greece. The motivation behind this research is to examine whether the environmental legislation should be consid...

This paper addresses the issue of the optimal standard of proof in criminal law. It is assumed that people in society care about both fairness and deterrence. It is important to punish those who are guilty and only those. However, error is unavoidable and hence a trade-o¤ emerges between the three aims of punishing the guilty, not punishing the innocent and deterring potential criminals. It is ...

∗ The authors would like to thank the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and the Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center for financially supporting the visits that enabled this international collaboration. We also would like to thank seminar participants at the NSCR and the 2008 annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology as well as Robert Brame, Megan...

Modern Greek society appears to be split regarding the legalization of euthanasia. The Greek Orthodox Church maintains a negative attitude. Research shows that some forms of euthanasia are carried out "behind closed doors". There is no specific legal provision. The government avoids bearing the political cost of regulating this marginal issue. According to the dominant view of Criminal Law juri...