Introduction: ‘Honour’, Rights and Wrongs

Human Honour and its Requirements from Quran’s Perspective

Human honour is one of the principal categories of the contemporary thought. After semantic analysis of human honour in the meaning system of holy Quran, the paper attempts to deal with the verses which are related to the results and requirements of human honour in Quranic discourse and also to achieve the mentioned requirements from the perspective of various verses about it. Regarding the res...

Second-order ability structure revealed in rights and wrongs scores.

Using 14 ability testa to measure 12 primary factors in a sample of 106 adult males, 2nd-order factorial structures were determined separately for both rights scores and wrongs scores. In both analyses the results agreed well with previous analyses in showing intellective functions interpreted as fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, general visualization, and general fluency. Other fa...

The Rights and Wrongs of Prostitution

This essay critically explores contemporary Euro-American feminist debate on prostitution. It argues that to develop analyses relevant to the experience of more than just a small minority of “First World” women, those who are concerned with prostitution as a form of work need to look beyond liberal discourse on property and contractual consent for ways of conceptualizing the rights and wrongs o...

Human rights and wrongs: could health impact assessment help?

Public Wrongs and the Criminal Law

1. The idea that crimes are public wrongs is a well-established one within the field of law. Its role in English Law was explicitly affirmed by Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws of England. Recently, the idea of ‘public wrongs’ has also gained prominence among those working on the normative issues in criminalization, most notably in the works by Duff and Marshall. I have no intention t...