The authors present and discuss empirical findings from various research projects on homophobic violence in Slovenia. Existing research on violence against gays and lesbians shows a high level of verbal, physical and sexual violence experienced by gays and lesbians and at the same time a low recognition of such violence in society. According to public opinion and the research results, Slovenia ...

“The ultimate objective of empirical work on incentives should be to find out why firms use the compensation systems they do...huge advances in our understanding could be made by a concerted effort to collect data on contracts.” So concludes the 1998 Journal of Economic Literature survey on compensation systems. This paper does just that. It presents very detailed case study evidence on contrac...

Over the past two centuries, surveillance technology has advanced in three major spurts. In the first instance the surveillance instrument was a specially designed building, Bentham’s Panopticon; in the second, a tightly controlled television network, Orwell’s Big Brother; today, an electronic human-tracking service. Functionally, each technology provided total surveillance within the confines ...

On the one side, it could be argued that ICT provide a perceived anonymity for people downloading and distributing child abusive material, also labelled child pornography. While, on the other side the technology offers powerful surveillance mechanisms to monitor these activities and thus constitutes a powerful tool for law enforcement. This article aims to explore how offenders manage the risk ...

Abstract Smart city discourses often invoke the Panopticon, a disciplinary architecture designed by Jeremy Bentham and popularly theorized Michel Foucault, as model for understanding social impact of AI technologies. This framing focuses attention almost exclusively on negative ramifications Urban AI, correlating ubiquitous surveillance, centralization, data consolidation with development, posi...

Abstract The digital economy has brought new business models that rely on zero-price markets and multi-sided platforms nested in ecosystems. traditional concept of market power used by competition authorities cannot engage with this reality which (economic) manifests beyond price output within a relevant market. These developments have culminated multiple recent calls for more multidimensional ...

This paper aims to study the traumatic impact of violence in late twentieth century Assam, caused primarily by unresolved conflict between popular ethno-nationalist demands an independent, ‘Swadhin’ Assam and retaliatory steps Centre. The short story anthology, How Tell Story Insurgency edited Aruni Kashyap will be considered chiefly, understand deep-seated, sometimes ‘belated’ occurrence traum...