Social law and Medical law

This book introduces readers to the concept of parental alienation (PA), a belief system that is used with increasing frequency in judicial child custody and parenting plan decisions.

Risk is the single most prevalent and enduring factor that influences every individual, organization, and society.

The essays collected in this volume provide students of ethics with essential tools for making sense of emerging biotechnical capacities and the turbulent power relations these capacities are bringing into the world.

It has been over 50 years since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories.

Michael Likosky examines the continuities and discontinuities between colonial and present-day high tech transnational legal orders.

This book is among the first books to consider post-communist Europe from the point of view of the rule of law.

A public health approach to human trafficking requires a nuanced understanding of its root causes.

The global rise in pandemics, most recently COVID-19, and other health challenges, some of which are due to climate change, have imposed significant challenges on the healthcare systems in economies around the world.

Conflicts caused by competing concepts of property are the subject of this book that reshapes study of the relationship between law and society in Australasia and North America.

This volume examines general driving offences, concentrating on those which punish risk-taking whilst driving, with the primary goal of increasing road safety.

This volume considers the impact that changing family norms have had on the responsibilities that the law allocates to people in family relationships.

An invaluable quick-reference source for practitioners and professionals detailing the major concerns in forensic psychology.

Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A.

The first comprehensive analysis of income-dependent fines (day fines), which can improve criminal sentencing by reducing inequality and short-term imprisonment.

Questions of academic freedom--from hate speech to the tenure structure-continue to be of great urgency and perennial debate in American higher education.

The interaction between individual rights, which are often seen in secular terms, and religion is becoming an important and complex topic not only for academic study but for practical policy.

The place of cannabis in global drug prohibition is in crisis, opening up new directions for socially engaged cannabis research.

This book proposes a new way of thinking about the controversial and complex challenges associated with the regulation of high-cost credit, specifically payday lending.

This book examines the complex relationship between politics and hate speech laws, domestic and international.

In a new era of rising protests, social unrest and political discontent globally, especially over climate change, war dangers, austerity measures and social inequality, the right to protest is a critical democratic right.

This book draws on a wide selection of interdisciplinary literature discussing complex adaptive systems - including scholarship from economics, political science, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and religion - to apply general complexity tenets to the institutions, conceptual framework, and theoretical justifications of the copyright system, both in the United States and internationally.

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has facilitated the understanding that disability is both a human rights and development issue.

Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law?

Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility explores the competing and contradictory understandings of violence against women and men's responsibility.

The law relating to general defences is one of the most important areas in the criminal law, yet the current state of the law in the United Kingdom reveals significant problems in the adoption of a consistent approach to their doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings, as exemplified by a number of recent developments in legislation and case law.

This title was first published in 2003.

This book provides a broad conspectus on the application of EU and international regulation of the food sector on English law.

Taking a multidisciplinary perspective (including public health, sociology, criminology, and political science amongst others) and using examples from across the globe, this book provides a detailed understanding of the complex and highly contested nature of drug policy, drug policy making, and the theoretical perspectives that inform the study of drug policy.

This book examines the contractual relationships of creative artists within a number of areas of the entertainment industry.

The focus of this book is the idea of equality as a moral, political and jurisprudential concept.

This book examines political responses to the problem of human trafficking, including proposals, actions (legislative and executive), and statements made by politicians, government agencies, and civil society organizations to solve or mitigate the crime of human trafficking.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This highly original work provides a thought-provoking and valuable resource for researchers and academics with an interest in genocide, criminology, international organizations, and law and society.

This book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples.

How can multilingualism and legal certainty be reconciled in EU law?

This book demonstrates how the various legal efforts employed to eradicate global urban poverty also play a significant role in shaping it.

Policing remains one of the most controversial areas of criminal justice.

Following the enormous political, legal, and media interest that has surrounded high profile cases of whistleblowing, such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, the fundamental ethical questions surrounding whistleblowing have often been obscured.

The Nordic countries are well known globally for their high human rights standards and, at the same time, high degree of internet freedom.

This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works.

An in-depth critical analysis of the effects of the right to health in Brazil over the past thirty years.

Law, Immunization and the Right to Die focuses on the urgent matter of legal appeals and judicial decisions on assisted death.

This book presents a critical appraisal of the main theories of distributive justice.

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Between Identity and Change reconsiders psychoanalytic psychotherapy for contemporary contexts.

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