Drug and Device Makers Pay Thousands Of Docs With Disciplinary Records

Abstract: Founded by John Calvin in 1542, the Genevan consistory was a disciplinary court made up of pastors and lay elders that oversaw public morality and enforced right belief in the city church. Although scholars of early modern Europe have explored in detail the various functions of this religious institution, inadequate attention has been paid to its important pedagogical role. This essay explores the various strategies that Calvin’s consistory employed to correct religious ignorance and inculcate Protestant belief among the city inhabitants. Based on quantitative analysis of extant Genevan disciplinary records from 1542 to 1609, it will be argued that Calvin’s consistory was largely successful in reshaping Geneva’s religious culture and imparting a deeper understanding of reformed Christianity to many children and adults.

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The Admiralty’s gaze: disciplining indecency and sodomy in the Edwardian fleet

A new naval history ◽

10.7228/manchester/9781526113801.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 70-88

Author(s):

Mary Conley

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Significant Proportion ◽

Potential Effect ◽

The State ◽

Sexual Activities ◽

History Of ◽

Perpetrators And Victims ◽

Disciplinary Records ◽

Personal Accounts ◽

Statistical Survey

This article examines the ways that the British Admiralty treated both acts and allegations of indecency during the early twentieth century. Despite the trope of the gay sailor, remarkably little attention has been devoted to the history of homosexuality in the Victorian and Edwardian British navy. The article historicizes the role that the state has played in disciplining sexuality and the potential effect that such efforts had upon the maintenance of discipline and efficiency of the fleet. While few personal accounts have been left, courts-martial cases offer a lens to understand how sex was expressed afloat. The source base for this article includes select courts-martial cases of indecency that are contextualized with a broader statistical survey of Admiralty disciplinary records pertaining to indecency. Research from these courts-martial records suggests the limited effects of punitive disciplinary reforms in deterring acts of indecency and the difficulties that the Admiralty faced in policing men’s sexual activities aboard ship. In particular the article finds that a significant proportion of these cases involved boy ratings as both perpetrators and victims.

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A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial investigating the behavioural effects of vitamin, mineral and n-3 fatty acid supplementation in typically developing adolescent schoolchildren

British Journal Of Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s0007114515004390 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 115 (2) ◽

pp. 361-373 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Jonathan D. Tammam ◽

David Steinsaltz ◽

D. W. Bester ◽

Turid Semb-Andenaes ◽

John F. Stein

Keyword(s):

Bayes Factor ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

General Level ◽

Disruptive Behaviour ◽

Nutrient Deficiencies ◽

Typically Developing ◽

Double Blind ◽

Disciplinary Records ◽

Mineral Levels ◽

Supplementary Nutrition

AbstractNutrient deficiencies have been implicated in anti-social behaviour in schoolchildren; hence, correcting them may improve sociability. We therefore tested the effects of vitamin, mineral and n-3 supplementation on behaviour in a 12-week double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial in typically developing UK adolescents aged 13–16 years (n 196). Changes in erythrocyte n-3 and 6 fatty acids and some mineral and vitamin levels were measured and compared with behavioural changes, using Conners’ teacher ratings and school disciplinary records. At baseline, the children’s PUFA (n-3 and n-6), vitamin and mineral levels were low, but they improved significantly in the group treated with n-3, vitamins and minerals (P=0·0005). On the Conners disruptive behaviour scale, the group given the active supplements improved, whereas the placebo group worsened (F=5·555, d=0·35; P=0·02). The general level of disciplinary infringements was low, thus making it difficult to obtain improvements. However, throughout the school term school disciplinary infringements increased significantly (by 25 %; Bayes factor=115) in both the treated and untreated groups. However, when the subjects were split into high and low baseline infringements, the low subset increased their offences, whereas the high-misbehaviour subset appeared to improve after treatment. But it was not possible to determine whether this was merely a statistical artifact. Thus, when assessed using the validated and standardised Conners teacher tests (but less clearly when using school discipline records in a school where misbehaviour was infrequent), supplementary nutrition might have a protective effect against worsening behaviour.

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A Comparison of Job Performance and Disciplinary Records of Smokers and Nonsmokers

The Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1080/00223980209604161 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 136 (3) ◽

pp. 339-349 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Paula C. Morrow ◽

Teresa Leedle

Keyword(s):

Job Performance ◽

Disciplinary Records

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Art therapy as counseling modality to help delinquent students

Journal of Counseling, Education and Society ◽

10.29210/08jces48200 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 35

Author(s):

Wan Muhammad Baihaqi Wan Hamat ◽

Abu Yazid Abu Bakar

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Primary School ◽

Art Therapy ◽

Group Counseling ◽

Educational Program ◽

School Counselor ◽

School Discipline ◽

Target Groups ◽

Disciplinary Problems ◽

Disciplinary Records

<p>The purpose of this psycho-educational group counseling is to provide knowledge and information to target groups on their delinquent problems. Delinquent is an attitude that violates the law that society does not accept but not serious. Delinquent problems are often associated with adolescents either in primary school or high school. The participants were 26 students from one of the private schools in Selangor which are from form two and three. The process of selecting participants is through discussions with the school counselor, and the participants are those who have identified disciplinary records involved in delinquency issues. The researchers conducted four group counseling sessions. Participants were divided into three groups according to their disciplinary problems. The module used in this program is art therapy through “LEPAS” approach or known as <em>Luah Emosi Positifkan Akal Sihat</em>. The participants aware of their emotions and realize that what are they doing (disciplinary issues) is wrong and should be stopped as the results of the involvements in this psycho-educational program. The implications of this program are directed to the counseling practitioners whose can use the art approach in dealing with school discipline cases.</p>

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“Courts of Conscience”: Local Law, the Baptists, and Church Schism in Kentucky, 1780–1840

Church History ◽

10.1017/s0009640714001735 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 84 (1) ◽

pp. 124-158 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jeffrey Thomas Perry

Keyword(s):

Legal Theory ◽

Church And State ◽

Legal Culture ◽

State Institutions ◽

Baptist Churches ◽

Church Courts ◽

Moral Transgressions ◽

Disciplinary Records ◽

Church Schism ◽

State Relations

This article examines how religious controversy affected antebellum Kentucky's legal culture and helped construct the relationship between church and state. It incorporates legal theory to broaden conceptions of law and argues that Baptist churches served as important legal sites for their communities. More than simply punishing moral transgressions, churches litigated disputes that under common law and within county courts would be considered criminal or civil law. By acknowledging that individuals produced law outside of state institutions, the article illuminates a more complex and fluid trans-Appalachian legal culture, one in which church members and non-members alike possessed a capacious vision of law. During the late 1820s and 1830s, Kentucky Baptists faced years of discord emanating from Alexander Campbell's “Reformation.” Amidst a religious backdrop of doctrinal controversy and schism, afflicted churches witnessed a decline of disciplinary activities as individuals' ceased to envision their churches as sites for neutral dispute resolution. The failure of church courts to contain internal dissension and curtail schism led to contentious court battles over rights to local meetinghouses. As judges reviewed church disciplinary records and litigants debated religious doctrine at the courthouse, these church property disputes highlight the process of redefining church-state relations in the post-establishment era.

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Marijuana Legalization in Canada: Insights for Workplaces from Case Law Analysis

Relations industrielles ◽

10.7202/1059464ar ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 74 (1) ◽

pp. 39-65

Author(s):

Helen Lam

Keyword(s):

Drug Use ◽

Court Cases ◽

Past Performance ◽

Human Rights Protection ◽

Drug Test ◽

Mitigating Factors ◽

Leave Of Absence ◽

Reasonable Suspicion ◽

Disciplinary Records ◽

Drug Impairment

The legalization of marijuana in Canada is expected to have a significant impact on workplaces, requiring the development or updating of company drug-related policies and procedures. To help employment relations stakeholders with this change, recommendations are made based on an analysis of 93 past arbitration/tribunal/court cases involving marijuana-related policy violations, drawn from the Labour Source database. Issues addressed include language and communication of the work rule, reasonableness of drug tests, standard of proof, duty to accommodate, and mitigating factors. Based on the study of those 93 court cases, some recommendations can be formulated. First, employers need to clearly state their drug-related policies, taking into consideration safety-sensitivity and any substance abuse culture. This may include prohibition of possession, use, and distribution of drugs at the workplace or working under the influence, and the need to report any medical drug use that requires accommodation. Drug tests should only be done when there is a bona fide occupational requirement or where safety is a concern, such as post-incident or when there is reasonable suspicion of drug impairment. Also, it is important to understand that positive drug test results can only show past drug use but not the level of impairment or whether the drug was used while on a work shift. Therefore, to support an offence violation and discipline, corroborating evidence from multiple witnesses and sources are often necessary. Supervisors should be trained to identify the characteristics related to marijuana and drug impairment and the procedures to follow when an incident occurs. Employers must be cognizant of the duty to accommodate medical marijuana users or recreational users who are addicted, under human rights protection for disability. Such accommodation may include work reassignment or a leave of absence. In deciding on a penalty, other than past performance and disciplinary records and personal extenuating circumstances, arbitrators may consider rehabilitation situations to assess the prognosis and viability of the employment relationship. Employers and unions are advised to stay abreast of latest developments in the laws, drug test technologies and medical research related to marijuana use.

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The Conditions of a Good Judgment: From Law to Internal Affairs Police Investigations

Latour and the Passage of Law ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9780748697908.003.0009 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Cédric Moreau de Bellaing

Keyword(s):

Police Officers ◽

State Violence ◽

Police Misconduct ◽

Good Judgment ◽

Defensive Strategies ◽

Administrative Procedures ◽

Management Techniques ◽

Internal Affairs ◽

Disciplinary Records ◽

The Many

A provocative account of police internal affairs investigations by a leading legal sociologist. Such investigations concern accusations of wrongdoing made by civilians against police officers. By deploying analytical resources drawn from Latour’s work, it becomes quite possible to make such ordinary administrative procedures reveal something essential about the nature of state violence, what counts as legitimate authority, and how law fits into the modern architecture of power. What entities, Moreau de Bellaing asks, must be enlisted, and what relations must be established between them, in order to produce a ‘good judgment’ in these inquiries into alleged police misconduct? Having followed the police investigators in their work for several months, the author is in a position to tell us. Confronting the ‘enigma’ of a severe disproportionateness between the frequency of reports of illegitimate violence and the frequency of the imposition of sanctions for such misconduct, Moreau de Bellaing notes that the compiled data themselves give no hint of the qualitative details of any particular case: as Garfinkel showed long ago, statistical reports reveal, at most, the management techniques of the organisation that prepared the reports. Thus we must plunge into the disciplinary records to extract the phases of investigation and to assemble a logic of the case grounded not in numerical abstractions but in the ‘torturous progression’ of concrete transformations, the interplay of leads, dead ends, ulterior motives, defensive strategies and proliferating uncertainties, and the circulation of value-objects required for the generation of an acceptable conclusion warranting closure of the disciplinary file. Moreau de Bellaing’s conclusion is stark and sobering: the establishment of the legitimacy or illegitimacy of police violence has nothing to do with the magnitude of force applied, as civilians would expect, but only with the successful capture, by the investigators, of the many moving pieces composing the relational situation in which any quantum of force was applied in the first place.

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