SOME ISSUES OF PROSECUTOR’S PARTICIPATION IN ECONOMIC COURTS

Online communities sustainability: some economic issues

There is a growing attention being placed on community networking and community informatics, due to the role both can play in building the Information Society. Hence, the issue of the sustainability of online communities becomes more and more relevant: multiple aspects – social, institutional and economical – have to be jointly analyzed to understand how and if a project is really worthwhile. I...

Drugs Courts: Issues and Prospects

Adam Graycar Director The Australian Institute of Criminology has projects under way which attempt to fill a significant gap in our knowledge about the relationship between illicit drug use and criminal behaviour. Most Australian data relate to drug offences, but many other offences have a drug-related genesis. The existing judicial process does not appear to offer long-term solutions to drug-r...

Specialty courts: current issues and future prospects

The reasons individual offenders engage in criminal activity are numerous and varied. Three key priority areas have emerged in recent years – reducing crime related to drug dependency and mental health, reducing the over-representation of Indigenous offenders and reducing the incidence of domestic violence. Policy-makers and criminal justice practitioners have recently responded with the develo...

Debt and Deficits: Some Measurement, Economic and Political Issues

Colloquy IN DEFENSE OF PROMETHEUS: SOME ETHICAL, ECONOMIC, AND REGULATORY ISSUES OF SPORTS DOPING

A chapter in The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, a book by Michael Sandel, the well-known Harvard political philosopher, provides a convenient stepping-off place for an analysis of the social issues involved in sports doping. The chapter is entitled “Bionic Athletes,” and despite the reference in the subtitle of the book to genetic engineering the chapter is m...