Background The aim of the study was to examine coercive treatment in Swedish child and adolescent psychiatry from different scientific perspectives. The study was done in a multidisciplinary group comprised of researchers and PhD-students from child and adolescent psychiatry, law, philosophy, education and sociology. In this presentation, the design of the study will be presented and also some ...

Game theory is rampant in economics. Having long ago invaded industrial organization (the sub-field of economics that studies firms and their product markets), game-theoretic modeling is now commonplace in international, labor, macro, and financial economics, and is gathering steam even in development economics and economic history. Nor is economics alone: accounting, law, marketing, political ...

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The study of discourse has become a major development in all disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences. Studies in Discourse will feature introductory books for the key domains and most relevant topics in this exciting new cross-discipline. The series aims to stimulate teaching and research on discourse in linguistics, literature, sociology, anthropology, psychology, communications ...

| This paper discusses the criteria to judge if a given equation represents a set of rst principle-based laws or a super cial relation. Based on the criteria, the approach of scienti c discovery to automatically discover law equations from data is presented. The state of the art of the scienti c law equation discovery has remained to derive candidate law equations without taking into account th...

The current study empirically demonstrates the widely discussed gap between copyright law and social norms. Theoretically founded in the sociology of law, the study uses a well-defined concept of norms to quantitatively measure changes in the strength of social norms before and after the implementation of legislation. The ‘IPRED law’ was implemented in Sweden on 1 April 2009, as a result of the...

social capital is a systematic set of organized links between the members of a group or a society which is based on specific norms and rules and results into obtaining individual and collective purposes. the category of social capital is different with from current concept of capital in sociology, law and economy. features like cooperation, knowledge, participating in public affairs, tolerating...