scholarly journals Victoria Canning and Steve Tombs (2021) From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction. Routledge

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-209
Author(s):  
Kajsa Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Harm

Kajsa Lundberg reviews From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction

Competition Policy and Price Fixing

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Kaplow
Keyword(s):  
Competition Policy ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Direct Approach ◽  
Social Harm ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Oligopoly Theory ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Error Costs ◽  
Benefits And Costs ◽  
Desirable Behavior

Throughout the world, the rule against price fixing is competition law's most important and least controversial prohibition. Yet there is far less consensus than meets the eye on what constitutes price fixing, and prevalent understandings conflict with the teachings of oligopoly theory that supposedly underlie modern competition policy. This book offers a fresh, in-depth exploration of competition law's horizontal agreement requirement, presents a systematic analysis of how best to address the problem of coordinated oligopolistic price elevation, and compares the resulting direct approach to the orthodox prohibition. The book elaborates the relevant benefits and costs of potential solutions, investigates how coordinated price elevation is best detected in light of the error costs associated with different types of proof, and examines appropriate sanctions. Existing literature devotes remarkably little attention to these key subjects and instead concerns itself with limiting penalties to certain sorts of interfirm communications. Challenging conventional wisdom, the book shows how this circumscribed view is less well grounded in the statutes, principles, and precedents of competition law than is a more direct, functional proscription. More important, by comparison to the communications-based prohibition, the book explains how the direct approach targets situations that involve both greater social harm and less risk of chilling desirable behavior—and is also easier to apply.

Is lottery playing always harmful? Development of the Lottery Playing Health Scale

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. 1563-1571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Hu ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Lian Liu ◽  
Gai Li ◽  
Xiantao Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Social Harm ◽  
Final Version ◽  
Multidimensional Measure ◽  
Sports Lottery ◽  
Rational Control ◽  
Multidimensional Effects

We developed a multidimensional measure of lottery playing health, simultaneously considering the positive and negative perspectives of playing the lottery. Participants were 4,521 sports lottery players. The final version of the Lottery Playing Health Scale (LPHS) comprised 17 items divided across 5 factors: enjoyable experience, favorable socialization, rational control, negative mood, and social harm. The LPHS showed good psychometric properties, including level of fit to the data, discriminant validity, and reliability. Several lottery player characteristics (i.e., age, perceived risk, and urge to play) were found to be significant predictors of players' LPHS scores. This study represents an initial effort to understand the multidimensional effects of lottery playing on health.

scholarly journals SOCIAL CONDITIONALITY OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR CRIMINAL OFFENSES IN THE SPHERE OF PROTECTION OF CULTURAL VALUES

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
В. Я. Качмар
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Social Harm ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Social Conditioning ◽  
Criminal Offenses

The problem of criminal law protection of the cultural heritage of mankind is one of the most relevant in modern criminal law. Law enforcement practice has difficulties in qualifying the destruction or damage of cultural property. Most often, this is due to the definition of a set of crimes while encroaching on both religious feelings and cultural values. The urgency of solving this problem is growing due to the threat of destruction of cultural values due to man-made and natural disasters, as well as as a result of anthropogenic activities. These circumstances determine the relevance of the study of the problems of social conditionality of criminal liability for destruction or damage to cultural heritage sites, cultural values. The purpose of the article is to analyze the factors of social conditionality of criminal liability for criminal offenses in the field of protection of cultural values, the task of the article is to characterize the types of social harm as the basis of factors of social conditionality of these offenses. The article examines the factors of social conditioning of criminal liability for criminal offenses in the field of protection of cultural values, gives a characteristic of the types of social harm as the basis of the factors of social conditioning of these offenses. The article proves that the destruction or damage of cultural heritage objects, natural complexes, cultural values cause harm, is expressed not only in the direct loss of unique objects and objects that accumulate the centuries-old spirit of history, the foundations of material and spiritual culture, but also personify the absolute beauty and perfection of human talent and abilities, but also in the destruction of the very centuries-old spirit of the historical and cultural development of mankind, therefore, the harm from damage to this or that historical monument is necessarily reflected in all the above areas. It is concluded that the destruction or damage of cultural heritage sites are characterized by encroachment on public morality, which is expressed in the active influence of destruction or damage of cultural heritage sites included in the single state register of cultural heritage sites, identified cultural heritage sites , natural complexes, objects taken under state protection, or cultural values on cultural, historical, archeological, scientific bases of public life.

scholarly journals Financial abuse: circumstances of occurrences against older adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Fernanda Sanches Alarcon ◽  
Vanessa Porto Paes ◽  
Daniela Garcia Damaceno ◽  
Viviane Boacnin Yoneda Sponchiado ◽  
Maria José Sanches Marin
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sociodemographic Characteristics ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Social Harm ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Financial Abuse ◽  
Police Reports

Abstract Objective: To analyze the occurrences of financial abuse against older adults. Methods: a descriptive and retrospective cross-sectional study with a qualitative and quantitative approach was conducted through the analysis of 209 Police Reports (PR) of financial abuse against older adults, dated between October 2016 and March 2017. Data analysis was performed by content analysis in the thematic modality. Results: The profile of the victims was characterized as follows: male (50.72%), aged from 60 to 69 years old (56.6%) and living with a partner (48.33%). Financial abuse against older adults is mainly committed by strangers, in 85.6% of cases, and in 6.7% of cases by family members. The sociodemographic characteristics of most offenders were unknown. Three cores of meaning relating to the types of financial abuse were identified: appropriation and damage; exposure to fraud/extortion and theft/robbery. Conclusion: There is a need for actions aimed at preventing and protecting against the financial abuse of older adults, in order to avoid suffering and emotional, physical and social harm. In addition, further studies are needed to more effectively highlight the association of alterations during the aging process and financial violence.

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