Project title: Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: Towards a common framework for privacy and ethical assessment Project number: 244779 Programme: Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development Objective: SiS-2009-1.1.2.1: Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: ethical, social and legal aspects. Contract type: Collaborative project Star...

from lightning and electricity, on starvation, on asphyxial deaths, on suicide, lunacy and lifeassurance are all most complete and thorough expositions of the subject. The second volume opens with a masterly discussion of 322 pages, on all questions of sexual medical jurisprudence, and following this are some 500 more pages on toxicology. It is hard to say which are the best parts of this work,...

In the UK schools are required by law to protect students from bullying; the responsibility of teachers to govern such behaviour has been extended outside the school setting to include cyberbullying. In this investigation, cyberbullying in secondary education is explored from the student perspective using a qualitative method of enquiry. Reported awareness and understanding about the legal aspe...

The present study is aimed to examine the mediating effect of psychological capital in the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior. Data has been collected from a sample of 350 employees from multimedia organizations operating in Malaysia through personally administered questionnaires. The mediation effect has been tested using structural equation mod...

Both education for democratic citizenship and human rights tend to emphasise political legal learning. In both moral in Japan, however, there has been a tendency give particular attention interpersonal elements of learning such as kindness sympathy. This article draws on feminist thinking Nel Noddings' concept the ethics care propose framework that combines emotional socio-political elements, a...

Ongoing tort reform efforts attest to the significant burden that medical liability imposes on the health care system. General attempts to curb excesses can narrow socioeconomic disparities, but as Clark Havighurst and Barak Richman observe, such measures may leave intact some of the regressive characteristics of the framework they supplant. Therefore, it seems appropriate to question whether t...

Empirically, justice might be immanently holistic—with procedural, distributive, restorative, and social justice positively correlated. Restorative justice may be about creating spaces where the various imperfectly correlated facets of holistic justice might cohere. State institutions of justice (such as criminal courts) with deeply embedded traditions of narrowing the meaning of justice (to pr...