Legal historians have turned with renewed energy in recent years to the project of fleshing out the myriad rules by which the common law of the free labor employment contract structured social relations in nineteenth-century America. 1 Of course, labor relations have always been prominent in the literature. The German sociological tradition has long taught us to see in the legal protection of p...

Coercive control is central to distinguishing between Johnson's (2008) 2 main types of intimate partner violence: (a) coercive controlling violence and (b) situational couple violence. Approaches to assessing coercive control, however, have been inconsistent. Using data from 2 projects involving divorcing mothers (N = 190), the authors compared common analytic strategies for operationalizing co...

Coercive treatment with antipsychotic drugs was commonly used in German psychiatric institutions until it became a topic of substantial medical, legal and ethical controversy. In 2011 and 2012, several landmark decisions by Germany’s Constitutional Court and Federal Supreme Court challenged this practice in all but life-threatening emergencies. In March 2013, the new legal provisions governing ...

Introducing a process model of power and institutional change, I argue that actors may seek power by creating, supporting, or modifying institutions. Lacking unilateral authority to enact new institutions, actors can leverage symbolic resources into coercive resources, which may require making concessions to multiple logics and stakeholders. The emergent organizations and institutions are then ...

Introduction Condom self-efficacy, positive attitudes toward condom use, condom negotiation skills, HIV knowledge, and self-esteem have been associated with decreased HIV risk behavior among young women, but few studies have examined racial disparities that may exist in these sexual health indicators. Moreover, sexual pressure (inclusive of both coercive and non-coercive pressures to engage in ...

Criminal sanctions involve the deliberate infliction of hardship on offenders.1 In sentencing, the state acts in its most coercive and decisive manner: ‘the state may use its most awesome power: the power to use force against its citizens and others’.2 Despite the importance of the interests at stake in the sentencing realm, sentencing is arguably the least coherent, predictable and principled ...

Coercive treatment comprises compulsory admission of patients as well as coercive treatment measures. Both are sometimes inevitable elements of psychiatric care, with the aim to prevent danger from patients and other persons. The stigma of mental illness is still one of the most challenging treatment obstacles. It is not limited to patients and their families, but is also attached to treatment ...

Coercive Subtyping is a conceptually simple but powerful framework for subtyping in type theory. Recent work in Durham by Luo et al. on Coercive Subtyping has been partially implemented in the proof assistant`Plastic'. Plastic is an implementation of a variant of Martin-LL of's LF with inductive types, universes, and coercive subtyping. After discussing background theory and then the implementa...

This quantitative study aimed to empirically evidence the relationship between the power bases of the leader and the leadership styles of nurses. The random sample consisted of 204 nursing professionals from a public hospital. The following measurement instruments were used: the SBDQ (Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire) to identify leadership styles and the Power Perception Profile ...

The dynamical hysteresis is studied in the kinetic Ising model in the presence of a sinusoidal magnetic field both by Monte Carlo simulation and by solving the dynamical meanfield equation for the averaged magnetisation. The frequency variations of the dynamic coercive field are studied below the critical temperature. In both the cases, it shows a power law frequency variation however it become...