Assessing the impact of legal reform by intervention analysis

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.J. Pyle ◽  
D.F. Deadman
Keyword(s):  
Legal Reform ◽  
Intervention Analysis ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Efficacy of a brief online mindfulness-based intervention on the psychological well-being of health care professionals and trainees during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed method design

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iram Osman ◽  
Shaista Hamid ◽  
Veena S. Singaram
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personal Accomplishment ◽  
Intervention Analysis ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Impact

Background: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, health professionals were pushed to the front line of a global health crisis unprepared and resource constrained, which affected their mental well-being.Aim: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a brief online mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) on stress and burnout for health professionals training and working in South Africa during the COVID-19 crisis.Setting: The context of the study is the overburdened, under-resourced health care system in South Africa during a global pandemic.Methods: A mixed method framework was adopted for this study. The quantitative data was analysed using descriptive analysis and the participants’ qualitative experiences were interpreted using interpretative phenomenological analysis.Results: Forty-seven participants took part in this study. The study found a statistically significant (p 0.05) reduction in stress levels and emotional exhaustion as well as an increase in mindful awareness and feelings of personal accomplishment after the intervention. The participants’ shared experiences were analysed in two parts. The pre-intervention analysis presented with central themes of loss of control and a sense of powerlessness because of COVID-19. The post-intervention analysis comprised themes of a sense of acquired control and empowerment through increased mindfulness.Conclusions: The study found that a brief online MBI can be associated with reduced levels of stress and burnout as well as an increased sense of control and empowerment, felt both personally and professionally, during a global crisis.Contribution: The impact of an online MBI for health care professionals amidst a pandemic has not been previously documented.

scholarly journals Custom and Modern Constructions of Sharīʿa: Transnational Juristic Discussions on the Status of ʿUrf

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 30-63
Author(s):  
Ayman Shabana
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
The Status ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Civil Codes ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This paper examines modern juristic discussions on the concept of custom in light of the proceedings of the fifth session of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy, which was held in 1988. It shows the extent to which these discussions not only address the role of custom in the derivation of Islamic law and its place in the Islamic legal tradition, but also reflect the impact of modern positive legislations on modern conceptualizations of Sharīʿa and how it has been constructed in the wake of the modern legal reform movement. In particular, the framing of custom in some civil codes as an independent legal source marked a significant development and created tension between Sharīʿa and modern legal codes. This perceived tension has, in turn, inspired efforts to reaffirm the primacy of Sharīʿa and demands for its implementation. While these discussions demonstrate how Muslim scholars situate Sharīʿa within national legal structures, they also show the role of juristic councils, such as the International Islamic Fiqh Academy, in the development of a transnational juristic discourse that transcends the boundaries of the nation state.

scholarly journals Intervention analysis of introduction of rotavirus vaccine on hospital admissions rates due to acute diarrhea

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 2101-2111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria de Lourdes Teixeira Masukawa ◽  
Adriana Mayumi Moriwaki ◽  
Nelson Shozo Uchimura ◽  
Eniuce Menezes de Souza ◽  
Taqueco Teruya Uchimura
Keyword(s):  
Acute Diarrhea ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Intervention Analysis ◽  
Rotavirus Vaccine ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Regional Health ◽  
Hospitalization Rates ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Time Series Methodology

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of rotavirus vaccine on hospitalization rates for acute diarrhea in children younger than 5 years old after the introduction of the vaccine in 2006. A descriptive analytical observational study was carried out of the hospitalization rates occurred between 2000 and 2011 in 22 Regional Health Centers of Paraná State, Brazil. The effect of the vaccine was assessed by applying the SARIMA/Box-Jenkins time series methodology of intervention analysis, which allows verifying the slopes of the series are different after the introduction of the vaccine and estimating the magnitude of these effects for children younger than five years of age, by age group, for each region center. It was verified a statistically significant reduction by center/month on hospitalization rates for children 1 year old and younger, with averages of 47% and 58%, respectively, in December 2011.

Organizational Imperatives and Sentencing Reform Implementation: The Impact of Prison Practices and Priorities on the Attainment of the Objective of Determinate Sentencing

1986 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Hepburn ◽  
Lynne Goodstein
Keyword(s):  
Legal Reform ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
Criminal Justice Reform ◽  
Reform Implementation ◽  
Sentencing Reform ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Determinate Sentencing ◽  
The Impact

Determinate sentencing, advocated as a means of increasing sentencing equity and reducing inmate release uncertainty and coerced program participation, has been heralded as a major criminal justice reform. Yet organizational theorists caution that successful implementation of a legal reform may be impeded by a number of factors. In this article we concentrate on the implementation of determinate sentencing reform by the correctional system and propose that its objectives will be compromised by its low priority relative to more visible, immediate, and central mandates of prison administration. Focusing on the reform states of Illinois, Minnesota, and Connecticut, the article explores the prison practices and policies governing good time, supervised release, and program participation. We conclude that the objectives of determinate sentencing were affected, to varying degrees, by more central and salient correctional concerns, such as prison crowding and the need to exert social control.

scholarly journals The legal status of religious minorities: Exploring the impact of the European Court of Human Rights

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Effie Fokas
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
European Court ◽  
Grassroots Level ◽  
The Impact

In the last 25 years the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has evolved into a venue where some of the most contentious questions related to religion in European society are addressed. This article focuses on the grassroots level impact of the ECtHR in the domain of legal status of religious minorities. In light of scholarly debates questioning the direct effects of courts on the issues they address (i.e., legal reform and policy change), the research on which this article is based explores the nature and extent of the Court’s indirect effects on the legal status of religious minorities: how and to what extent does the ECtHR impact upon religious minorities in terms of their conceptions of, discourse around, and mobilisations pursuing their legal status-related rights? This question is addressed through results of empirical qualitative research conducted at the grassroots level in four country cases – Greece, Italy, Romania and Turkey.

scholarly journals The Study on the Effects of Agricultural Policies to the Stock Price of Agricultural Companies of China

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Xilong Pan ◽  
Qi Wang ◽  
Yinchuan Huang
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Stock Return ◽  
Intervention Analysis ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Intervention Model ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Land Transfer ◽  
Transfer Index ◽  
The Impact

This paper attempts to use the intervention analysis model to study the impact of the release of the central Number 1 Documents on the stock price fluctuation of listed agricultural companies in China, and get the intervention value of the policy event on the stock return rate while separating the influence of the policy event. The results of the empirical study on the data of the study showed that the effect of the intervention on the results of the intervention was based on the publication of the “Number 1 Documents" in 2012 ~ 2013 as the intervention event. The results of the empirical study on the significance of biological breeding index and land transfer index (data from 2013) Intervention model, is consistent with the interpretation of the “Number 1 Documents”.

scholarly journals A sieve that does hold a little water – gambling advertising and protection of the vulnerable in the UK

Legal Studies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Hörnle ◽  
Malgorzata A Carran
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory System ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Limited Effect ◽  
Regulatory Standards ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Vulnerable Persons

AbstractThe internet, social media and online profiling have fundamentally changed advertising, and the regulation of gambling advertising has not yet managed to address the challenges and opportunities arising from this technological shift. Furthermore, the regulation of gambling does not take into account sufficiently the needs of children and vulnerable persons. We review the empirical research on the impact of gambling advertising and show how regulatory standards firmly adhere to the transmission theory of communication that prioritises the communicative intent of the advertiser over how the advertising message is received by or impacts on vulnerable people. This article reviews the law on gambling advertising and argues that for gambling, the restrictions imposed by the largely co-regulatory system only have limited effect. We compare the regulation of gambling advertising, by way of analogy, to a sieve that holds only a little water, and make recommendations for legal reform.

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