Legal Perspectives on Family Violence

Medico-Legal Aspects of Family Violence Cases in Athens, Greece

Background: Various studies that have been published to date concerning the Greek population, examine family violence only from the sociological perspective while attempting to correlate it with the socio-demographic data of the perpetrator and the victim. Aims: This study makes an effort to investigate the phenomenon from the perspective of forensic clinical medicine while it simultaneously at...

Legal and Strategic Perspectives on Click Measurement

Search engines, such as Google and Yahoo!, have revolutionized the way people search for information. Advertisers, eager to take advantage of this great potential for customers, have been bidding to display clickable links to their websites as sponsored search results. This revolution, however, and the ten-billion dollar industry it created have been threatened by the rising number of invalid c...

On autonomy: legal and psychological perspectives.

Legal liability and workplace violence.

Workplace violence is a growing social problem. Some of this growth may be perceptual, reflecting our new awareness of what constitutes violence in the workplace. Furthermore, much of what falls under its current rubric does not correspond to the classic image of worker-on-worker or worker-on-employer mayhem. Nevertheless, the total number of incidents is alarmingly large; the problem is real. ...

Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War

We review and discuss the evolutionary psychological literature on violence, homicide, and war in humans and nonhumans, and in doing so we argue that an evolutionary perspective can substantially enhance our understanding of these behaviors. We provide a brief primer on evolutionary psychology, describing basic tenets of the field. The theories of sexual selection and parental investment are ex...