Project title: Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: Towards a common framework for privacy and ethical assessment Project number: 244779 Programme: Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development Objective: SiS-2009-1.1.2.1: Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: ethical, social and legal aspects. Contract type: Collaborative project Star...

from lightning and electricity, on starvation, on asphyxial deaths, on suicide, lunacy and lifeassurance are all most complete and thorough expositions of the subject. The second volume opens with a masterly discussion of 322 pages, on all questions of sexual medical jurisprudence, and following this are some 500 more pages on toxicology. It is hard to say which are the best parts of this work,...

In the UK schools are required by law to protect students from bullying; the responsibility of teachers to govern such behaviour has been extended outside the school setting to include cyberbullying. In this investigation, cyberbullying in secondary education is explored from the student perspective using a qualitative method of enquiry. Reported awareness and understanding about the legal aspe...

The present study is aimed to examine the mediating effect of psychological capital in the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior. Data has been collected from a sample of 350 employees from multimedia organizations operating in Malaysia through personally administered questionnaires. The mediation effect has been tested using structural equation mod...

Ongoing tort reform efforts attest to the significant burden that medical liability imposes on the health care system. General attempts to curb excesses can narrow socioeconomic disparities, but as Clark Havighurst and Barak Richman observe, such measures may leave intact some of the regressive characteristics of the framework they supplant. Therefore, it seems appropriate to question whether t...

Empirically, justice might be immanently holistic—with procedural, distributive, restorative, and social justice positively correlated. Restorative justice may be about creating spaces where the various imperfectly correlated facets of holistic justice might cohere. State institutions of justice (such as criminal courts) with deeply embedded traditions of narrowing the meaning of justice (to pr...

Transitional justice has an expectation management problem. International law imposes a right to justice and an obligation to defeat impunity from crimes against humanity. Yet there has not been a war where a substantial proportion of criminals against humanity have been convicted. Nor is one likely. The theoretical solution considered in this paper is to broaden, deepen, and lengthen our conce...

The authors investigated the relationship between organizational justice and organizational retaliation behavior—adverse reactions to perceived unfairness by disgruntled employees toward their employer—in a sample of 240 manufacturing employees. Distributive, procedural, and interactional justice interacted to predict organizational retaliation behavior. A relation between distributive justice ...

Suicide is a leading cause of veteran deaths in the United States. Importantly, student veterans with more favorable perceptions suicide prevention may be likely to engage such efforts. Social justice identity includes commitment action. Therefore, social justice-oriented commit mission protect themselves and others. This study sought examine how predicts veterans’ prevention. Cross-sectional s...

Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by change. There is now a considerable diverse literature on procedural, distributional intergenerational dimensions, including questions recognition in justice. Yet its meaning, scope practical implications are still contested. Importantly, broader landscape within w...