Deadly Dilemmas II: Bail and Crime

Difficulties and Dilemmas in Defining Hate Crime Victimisation

This article analyses the issues involved with deciding which identity groups are categorised as specific hate crime victim groups and which are not. It assesses whether theories of hate crime based around hierarchical notions of group dominance and subordination are helpful in determining which groups should be included under this hate crime ‘umbrella’. Through a discussion of the victimisatio...

Do Bail Information Schemes Really Affect Bail Decisions?

Bail Information Schemes gather and provide information on a defendant’s community ties to the court. Past evaluations have concluded that schemes are effective because more defendants are granted bail. However, the evaluations include possible confounds and other limitations, thus threatening the validity of their findings. They are also incompatible with research showing that magistrates do n...

Bank Bonuses and Bail-Outs

This paper shows that bonus contracts may arise endogenously as a response to agency problems within banks, and analyzes how compensation schemes change in reaction to anticipated bail-outs. If there is a risk-shifting problem, bail-out expectations lead to steeper bonus schemes and even more risk-taking. If there is an effort problem, the compensation scheme becomes flatter and effort decrease...

ISLAMIC MEDICAL JURISP RUDENCE PART II: THE RESPONSES OF ISLAMIC LAW TO MEDICAL DILEMMAS

Judicial decisions (Fatawa) of some of the most learned juridical authorities in the Imamate (Shiite) community (maraja' al-taqlid) of present time on medical issues are examined in this paper. They will provide the reader with the responses of the Islamic jurisprudence to the most involved medical dilemmas. The paper mainly focuses on the rational viewpoints of the Islamic law on permissio...

Training dilemmas and false dilemmas