Who Guards the Guards? Understanding Deviance and Corruption of Law Enforcement Officials

Selection of Prison Officials and Guards

Who Guards the Guards: Drug Use Pattern Among Medical Students in a Nigerian University

BACKGROUND Several studies have examined the prevalence and pattern of substance use among medical students in Nigeria. Few of these studies have specifically examined the relationship between the psychological distress and psychoactive substance use among these students. Yet, evidence world-wide suggests that substance use among medical students might be on the rise and may be related to the l...

Corruption and optimal law enforcement

We analyze corruption in law enforcement: the payment of bribes to enforcement agents, threats to frame innocent individuals in order to extort money from them, and the actual framing of innocent individuals. Bribery, extortion, and framing reduce deterrence and are thus worth discouraging. Optimal penalties for bribery and framing are maximal, but, surprisingly, extortion should not be sanctio...

Change of the Guards

Since Professor Lillemor Hallberg and Professor Karin Dahlberg started the International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being (IJQHW) in 2006 it has developed immensely, not least after 2010 when it became Open Access. With unhindered access to all content, readers in 172 countries have since then accessed the journal’s website in their thousands, and more than 290,000 full-t...

Changing of the guards

. Establishment in 1973 as an organ of the Nordiska Samarbetskommitten för Arktisk Medicinsk Forskning (NoSAMF), reporting to and financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM). . The dissolution of NoSAMF in 1996 and the transfer of the journal to joint ownership by the Nordic Society for Arctic Medicine (NSAM) and the International Union of Circumpolar Health (IUCH). Editorial and administ...