Flouting the Law: Does Perceived Injustice Provoke General Non-Compliance?

Flouting the Law

What happens when a person’s commonsense view of justice diverges from the sense of justice he or she sees enshrined in particular laws? Does the perception of one particular law as unjust make an individual less likely to comply with unrelated laws? This Article advances the Flouting Thesis—the idea that the perceived legitimacy of one law or legal outcome can influence one’s willingness to co...

Flouting the law. Underbelly: Razor's (de)construction of normative femininity

Australian TV series Underbelly: Razor represents gangsters Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine as women equipped to compete on an equal footing with their male counterparts. These women's 'toughness' is simultaneously tempered and reinforced by gestures toward stereotypes of 'female weakness', which they employ to fulfil their criminal agendas. This paper will analyse how the TV series frames these wo...

Distributive Injustice and Private Law

Does compliance matter? Assessing the relationship between sovereign risk and compliance with international monetary law

An important theory of international cooperation asserts that governments comply with international law because of the reputational costs incurred by reneging on public agreements. Countries that sign binding international agreements in the realm of monetary relations signal their commitment to an open economic system, which should reassure international market actors that the government is com...

Injustice Experience Questionnaire, Japanese Version: Cross-Cultural Factor-Structure Comparison and Demographics Associated with Perceived Injustice

OBJECTIVE The Injustice Experience Questionnaire (IEQ) assesses injury-related perceived injustice. This study aimed to (1) develop a Japanese version (IEQ-J), (2) examine its factor structure, validity, and reliability, and (3) discover which demographic variable(s) positively contributed to prediction of IEQ-J scores. METHODS Data from 71 patients (33 male, 38 female; age = 20+) with injury...