In this commentary, I explore two questions raised by Angelotta and Appelbaum's study. First, I offer an English legal perspective on the protection of children from their mothers, looking at both civil (family) and criminal law. Second, I discuss the idealization of motherhood that is implied by the prosecution of pregnant women; the denigration of those who fail this ideal; and the way that i...

Recent research has tried to calculate the “total cost of publication” in the British academic sector, bringing together the costs of journal subscriptions, the article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open-access content, and the indirect costs of handling open-access mandates. This study adds an estimate for the other publication charges (predominantly page and colour charges) curren...

positivism is an empirical approach for understanding of human communication and phenomena, which raised firstly french famous thinker “august comte”. human and social sciences were under domination of positive thought for a long time. in criminal law inter alia italian famous thinkers sought to analyses the crime problem with a positive approach. however, some of their point of view such as bo...

Background: With the idea of victim protection emerging and the emergence of supportive victimology in the twentieth century, the forgotten position of the victim in the criminal process has been restored and its findings expressed in the form of universal standards for victim protection. Support for the victim is indispensable and indisputable in criminal proceedings. This support has various ...

In this study, we examined differences between cocaine- and alcohol-dependent patients with and without active criminal justice involvement. Data were combined from two randomized controlled trials, in which 243 participants were randomly assigned to manual-guided behavioral therapies and medication (either disulfiram or placebo). Fifty-five (23%) participants of the combined sample had active ...

The virtual tax village in line with the transformation of the tax process from self-declaration based method to electronic data based method and with the aim of compiling and developing the tax information bank and using technology, taxpayers in a virtual tax space. It collects the ID card holders and their financial data with the help of modern technologies and by benefiting from systematic m...