Abstract Since Australia re-established offshore processing on Manus Island and Nauru in 2012, there have been ongoing reports that asylum seekers refugees are being subjected to torture cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment punishment (CIDT). People detention endured indefinite detention, inadequate provision of health care, sexual, physical, mental harm as the government attempts ‘stop boats’...

The article defends four broad theses: that repentance is the intrinsically appropriate response to moral wrongdoing (Part II); that legal punishment may seek to facilitate repentance and, when repentance is in evidence prior to the completion of a justified punishment, that it can be a legitimate ground for the merciful reduction of the offender’s sentence (Part III); that according repentance...

We investigate the effects of social and regulatory forces on a firm’s decision to disclose past wrongdoing by voluntarily restating its earnings. With an eight-year sample of more than 2,500 public firms, including 170 voluntary restaters, we find that firms are more likely to voluntarily restate their earnings in response to informal social pressures from other firms in their industry and les...

This study examined whether reinforcement can induce children to falsely incriminate themselves. Ninety-nine children in kindergarten through third grade were questioned regarding the staged theft of a toy. Half received reinforcement for self-incriminating responses. Within 4 min reinforced children made 52% false admissions of guilty knowledge concerning the theft, and 30% false admissions of...

While various forms of corruption are common in many health systems around the world, defining wrongdoing in terms of legality and the use of public office for private gain obstructs our understanding of its nature and intractability. To address this, I suggest, we must not only break the silence about the extent of wrongdoing in the health sector, but also talk differe...

Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is now regarded as a global public health epidemic. Management of chronic kidney disease is often beyond the reach of some patients especially in resource-poor countries of sub-Saharan Africa where patients have to bear the funding. Many Nigerians do not know the functions of the kidney, the symptoms of kidney diseases and the causes of kidney failure. A...

Any fraud or wrongdoing that occurs in the halal food industry can have a severe impact on safety and integrity of products. Whistleblowing is one methods be used to combat fraudulent issues. Some illegal, unsafe, unethical behaviour may not discovered by top management Halal authorities. The depend honesty producers. Hence, whistleblowing encouraged should practiced counter possibility occurre...

Research on whistleblowing has increased significantly in the last decades, and so number of laws governing whistleblowing. Whereas EU recently enacted a Directive (Directive 2019/1937) protecting whistleblowers, US gone one step further long ago, not only them but also offering substantial monetary rewards for their information. More countries are now adopting reward programs, while numerous r...