Traditionally considered a deficiency in will power and rationality, suggestibility has proven a troublesome concept for psychology. It was forgotten, rediscovered, denounced, undermined experimentation and recently became the ambiguous issue at the centre of concern about child witness’ credibility in sexual abuse cases. This paper traces the history of suggestibility to show how it raises the...

Traditionally considered a deficiency in will power and rationality, suggestibility has proven a troublesome concept for psychology. It was forgotten, rediscovered, denounced, undermined experimentation and recently became the ambiguous issue at the centre of concern about child witness’ credibility in sexual abuse cases. This paper traces the history of suggestibility to show how it raises the...

type, even at this level we can only determine state structures and policies insofar as they are necessitated by the dominant mode of accumulation. Thus, to a large extent, the content of the theory of the state must be developed at the historical level of analysis. A purely capitalist society is conceived of as a global society without external relations, but this is a high level of abstractio...

Accessibility of legal sources is crucial to both jurists and citizens. As the development of E-government is speeded up the number of legal information systems including knowledge-based services is likely to increase accordingly. In the Program for an Ontology-based Working Environment for Rules and legislation (POWER) the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration (Belastingdienst) developed a form...

The emergence of railroads presented a problem for the developing economic profession. Railroads, by their very nature, often had a localized monopoly. The check that competition was expected to impose on firm behavior was singularly lacking. At the same time, railroads in the United States were national in scope and thus affected interstate commerce. The Interstate Commerce Act and the Commiss...

The use of metaphor in legal discourse is pervasive. The legal world has been described as a magical one in which “liens float, corporations reside, minds hold meetings, and promises run with the land.” Traditionally defined as “figure[s] of speech containing an implied comparison, in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used of one thing is applied to another,” metaphors wield enorm...

As one of the most influential models of corporate social responsibility (CSR), Carroll’s pyramid of CSR has both reflected, and helped to perpetuate, a business-centric notion of CSR which implies that economic responsibilities take precedence over legal and ethical responsibilities. This paper argues that this conception of CSR needs updating to reflect the increased power of business in soci...

power is an important social variable in the study of the social structure, institutions, groupsand individuals considered to be a conventional relationship and family is no exception. themain purpose of this article to review the decision making power of women in the family iswhite and its influencing factors. this research is a quantitative survey, which was conductedin 2011 in the town of pr...