Abstract This article examines how judges and lawyers working in international criminal courts see their authority relation to power exerted by states, organisations private actors. We draw together ethnographic research inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ( ictr ) Court icc that examined perceptions of interactions among local, national legal regimes potential accomplice liab...

Recent changes in juvenile justice policies have stimulated debate among legal professionals and social scientists. As such, public opinion concerning juvenile offenders is an important and timely topic for empirical study. In the present study, respondents read a scenario about a juvenile who committed a crime, and then decided on a sentence and rated perceptions of the juvenile's accountabili...

This study explored the impact of staff group role and length of organizational tenure in the relationship between the awareness of stress interventions (termed intervention awareness: IA) and the work-related attitudinal outcomes of university employees. A two-wave longitudinal study of a sample of 869 employees from 13 universities completed a psychosocial work factors and health questionnair...

While the research in the area of fear of criminal victimization among students at school continues to grow, few studies have focused on the prevalence or correlates of fear of crime at school among teachers. Using data from 1,438 teachers from 54 public high schools in Kentucky, we examined the individualand school-level predictors of teacher perceptions of school safety using hierarchical lin...

Article history: Received 25 July 2011 Received in revised form 5 March 2012 Accepted 10 April 2012 Available online 27 April 2012

this study examines the impact of organizational development and justice on behavioral indicators. for this purpose, the relationship between organizational development, organizational justice dimensions (procedural justice, interactional justice and distributive justice), and behavioral indicators (organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior) were examined using a concept...

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This article discusses medico-legal aspects in anesthesia. It underlines the standards of care by which anesthesiologists should abide by, as well as define malpractice, its causes, and ways to avoid it. The role of the expert witness is explained and the ethical guidelines to follow are outlined.