Pornography, the Law and Mental Health

1975 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. E. Kenyon
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
Harmful Effects

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in pornography, particularly in Great Britain and the U.S.A. There have been many more publications on the subject, as well as various surveys and enquiries; some of these have been officially sponsored. Well-publicized prosecutions have helped to keep the topic in the public eye, but at the same time have drawn attention to uncertainties and ambiguities in present-day legislation (Tribe, 1973). Underlying all this is a continuing concern about the possible harmful effects of pornography, its implications for mental health and the need for more research and informed psychological guidance.

The Community and the Aggressive Child

1948 ◽  
Vol 94 (396) ◽  
pp. 623-628
Author(s):  
J. D. W. Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Aggressive Child ◽  
The Subject

A subject such as this is much too large to deal with at all fully in a short paper. As it is designed as a preparatory review of this topic as it applies to Great Britain, the subject being dealt with at the International Congress of Mental Health by delegates from overseas, I am placing the emphasis on the community rather than on the aggressive child. It is necessary, however, to consider what the aggressive child does to the community and why, in addition to discussing what the community does to the aggressive child, and the reason for this.

8. Patent Protection and Exploitation

2019 ◽  
pp. 178-198
Author(s):  
Justine Pila ◽  
Paul L.C. Torremans
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Patent Protection ◽  
European Patent ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
Patent Grant

Once a European patent has been granted the nature and scope of the protection it confers must be determined. In considering such protection this chapter focuses on four issues of central importance to that end. The first is the effects of a patent, namely, the territories in and term for which it is valid. The second is the object of protection, namely, the subject matter that the public is excluded from using during the term of its protection. The third is the nature of protection, namely, the uses of the subject matter from which the public is excluded. And the fourth is the limitations to protection, namely, the uses of an invention that the law permits notwithstanding its protection by patent grant.

Desire, sanity and the middlebrow aesthetic: The case of Triveni’s Sharapanjara

2019 ◽  
pp. 002198941987848
Author(s):  
Gayathri Prabhu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Mental Health Recovery ◽  
Double Vision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Subject

Two landmark novels appeared in the same year (1965) in Kannada literature — U. R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara and Triveni’s last novel, Sharapanjara. While the former got enshrined into the Indian modernist canon (the Navya movement), Triveni’s work has stayed mostly in the realms of popular literature for women. This article seeks to make a case to read Sharapanjara in light of recent scholarship on popular modernism and on the middlebrow novel, especially the feminine middlebrow. Depicting the chilling unspooling of a woman’s mental health, recovery and relapse, within the constraints and duplicities of domestic space, this novel makes several bold thematic and stylistic forays. The article analyses Sharapanjara as a text whose double vision about desire and insanity, both in its treatment of the subject as well as its nuanced narrative structure, elicits new articulations of extreme alienation and discrimination at the very cusp where the domestic and the public collapse into each other.

‘Furiously Mad’: Vagrancy Law and a Sub-Group of the Disorderly Poor

Rural History ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
AUDREY ECCLES
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law

Abstract:Madness has been a social problem from time immemorial. Wealthy lunatics were made royal wards so that their estates would be looked after, and the common law very early admitted madness and idiocy as conditions justifying the exemption of the sufferer from punishments for crime. But the vast majority of lunatics have never been either criminal or wealthy, and many wandered about begging, unwelcome in any settled community. Finally, in the eighteenth century, the law made some attempt to determine a course of action which would protect the public and theoretically also the lunatic. This legislation and its application in practice to protect the public, contain the lunatic, and deal with the nuisance caused by those ‘disordered in their senses’, form the subject of this article. Much has been written about the development of psychiatry, mainly from contemporary medical texts, and about the treatment of lunatics in institutions, chiefly from nineteenth-century sources, but much remains to be discovered from archival sources about the practicalities of dealing with lunatics at parish level, particularly how they were defined as lunatics, who made such decisions, and how they were treated in homes and workhouses.

Oratory and Platform Culture in Britain and North America, 1740–1900

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Eastman
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
North America ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Relationship

Examining oratory as a dynamic, changing medium for communication during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in America and, to a lesser extent, Great Britain, this essay scrutinizes several of its most important sites of performance: religion, politics, social reform, performance, and education. In each of those arenas, oratory helped to fuel some of most exciting social and political changes of the era by reconceptualizing ideas about the relationship between leaders and the public, the notion of rhetorical persuasion, and the importance of public opinion. An exceptionally interdisciplinary set of scholarship on the subject has done much to invigorate the study of oratory in recent years, and yet this field lacks an intellectual center from which scholars might move beyond individual studies to conceptualize the larger significance of oratory across all sites of performance.

On the liability of the occupier of a tenement for damage done to that of a neighbour, by fire kindled through his own or his servant's negligence

1851 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-49
Author(s):  
C. J. Bunyon
Keyword(s):  
Considerable Importance ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law

The question as to the liabilities arising upon the destruction of property by a fire which has originated through negligence, is one of considerable importance, both to the public and to Insurance Offices; and as it appears that the vulgar notions afloat upon it, by no means tally with the law, and have, nevertheless, their origin in no less an authority than that of Sir William Blackstone, it may be a matter of interest to the readers of this magazine to investigate the subject.

Of Debatable Benefit

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-181
Author(s):  
Nathan S. French
Keyword(s):  
Jeremy Bentham ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law

Though an individual may possess the correct intention for martyrdom-seeking, Jihadi-Salafi jurists argue that such intentionality does not secure the permissibility of a martyrdom-seeking operation. The operation as a legitimate tactic of war and struggle in God’s cause must also be debated. Beginning with a discussion of the permissibility of immersing oneself into a superior enemy force, and a question of the permissibility of striking human shields, this chapter argues that Jihadi-Salafi jurisprudence on the subject of martyrdom operations reveals a rearrangement of the objectives of the law. Such a rearrangement, the chapter concludes, suggests that for Jihadi-Salafis, it is to the public benefit of the umma to put the preservation of religion ahead of life, reason, lineage, or property. Such a move demands a comparison with Western utilitarian approaches, such as that of Jeremy Bentham.

14. Charitable trusts

2019 ◽  
pp. 429-454
Author(s):  
JE Penner
Keyword(s):  
Attorney General ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
The Core ◽  
Public Purpose ◽  
Charity Commission ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law

Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. This chapter focuses on charitable trusts. Charitable trusts are not subject to the beneficiary principle. These are valid purpose trusts that are enforced, not by beneficiaries, but by the Attorney-General or, more recently, by the Charity Commission. Charities are generally exempt from most taxes. The conditions for charitable status; the charitable character of public purpose trusts; trusts for the relief of poverty; trusts for the advancement of education; trusts for the advancement of religion; trusts for other purposes beneficial to the community; the law concerning the public benefit requirement; and the application of the cy-près doctrine to save charitable trusts from failure are discussed.

Privacy Rights and Satellite Broadcasts

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-414
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gillis
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Practical Problem ◽  
Privacy Rights ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Tv News ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
Private Individual

The subject matter of this article is, at bottom, a practical problem. It accepts that people have a right to privacy and that this right should find proper protection in the law. It asks, simply, whether such protection is at all feasible given the particular technology of broadcast by satellite.For the purposes of investigating this problem several issues must be addressed. First is the nature of the violation of privacy involved. Our concern here is principally with TV news broadcasts. We begin from the point where the debate over “what is in the public interest versus what the public is interested in” has ended; there will be general consensus that the content of a certain broadcast represents a violation of an individual's privacy and one about which the law should do something. An example might be the filming in the public domain of a private individual caught in the shock of personal grief or tragedy. In such a case we would need to investigate the nature of the injury involved in any subsequent broadcast of these sounds and images, and to ask what dimension, if any, is added to this injury by their simultaneous broadcast across the globe.

scholarly journals The Courtroom as an Arena of Ideological and Political Confrontation: The Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Awol Allo
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Criminal Trial ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
National Convention ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
A Site

AbstractNormative theories of law conceive the courtroom as a geometrically delineated, politically neutral, and linguistically transparent space designed for a fair and orderly administration of justice. The trial, the most legalistic of all legal acts, is widely regarded as a site of truth and justice elevated above and beyond the expediency of ideology and politics. These conceptions are further underpinned by certain normative understandings of sovereignty, the subject, and politics where sovereignty is conceived as self-instituting and self-limiting; the subject is understood as an autonomous and rational being capable of self-consciousness and self-representation; and politics is posited as the exercise of reason in the public sphere. In this article, I argue that such a normative conceptualization of the criminal trial and the courtroom not only ignores structures of power and privilege that produce inequalities but also forecloses possibilities for transformative judicial praxis. Drawing on the 1969–1970 trial of eight radical activists accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the article argues for a performative re-conceptualization of sovereignty, the subject, and the law as indeterminate, unpredictable, and open-ended discursive formations. The article demonstrates how the accused, working with and against legal doctrines, norms, and discourses, rethought normative conceptions of sovereignty, law, and subjectivity as contingent power-knowledge constellations that are open, unpredictable, and un-closable.

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