scholarly journals Role of veterinarians in recognition and prevention of animal abuse

2011 ◽  
Vol 65 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
Jelena Aleksic ◽  
Slavoljub Jovic ◽  
Drinka Mercep
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Animal Abuse ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Animal Suffering ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Criminal Charges ◽  
The Republic

Since the Criminal law of the Republic of Serbia in 2005 as well as the Law on veterinary medicine, there has been an increasing number of cases that deal with raising criminal charges due to animal killing or torturing. There is also a significant number of forensic cases that are aimed at discovering criminal acts. Animal abuse is a social issue, which includes a range of behaviors of humans that are harmful to animals, starting from unintentional neglect to intentional cruelty. Types of animal abuse are different and they can include physical, sexual, emotional abuse, or neglect. Abuse and neglect of animals have a variety of forms and manifestations, but the end result is always the same - animal suffering. The connection between animal abuse, domestic violence, and child abuse indicates that there is a significant role of veterinarians in social contexts and in terms of stopping this vicious cycle by preventing, discovering and turning in suspects involved in these crimes. The help that veterinarians provide to public prosecutors is of great importance. This study shows the role of veterinarians in cases of possible animal abuse, as well as their role in processing that type of cases.

Child maltreatment: how can friends contribute to safety?

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Sue Allnock
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Rich Information

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a study of support received by 60 young adults who experienced sexual, physical or emotional abuse and neglect in childhood. It is focussed on the support provided by friends in particular, and draws out relevant learning for child sexual exploitation (CSE). Design/methodology/approach – In all, 60 young people completed a questionnaire, complemented by a two hour follow-up interview to explore experiences of formal and informal support in disclosing abuse. In total, 13 young people were recruited on the basis of their prior participation in a larger, associated study of child abuse and neglect, with the remainder recruited via open invitation. Findings – There is rich information in the interviews about the ways that friends provided support to participants. Friends provided practical, moral and emotional support. They intervened to keep their friends safe. They offered emotional “escape” and a conduit to adults who could help keep them safe. Importantly, friends recognised that participants were in distress even when they did not know the participants were being abused. Practical implications – The results highlight that friends have a crucial role to play in helping children to keep safe and to feel safe, provided that they are equipped with information and knowledge of how to respond and where to seek help. Originality/value – The paper is original in considering the role of friends within a community safety framework. In addition, the study sample is larger than other studies of its kind, and considers a wider variety of child maltreatment experiences than previous studies, making clear links to CSE.

scholarly journals A Meta-Analysis of Childhood Maltreatment in Relation to Psychopathic Traits

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corine de Ruiter ◽  
Matthias Burghart ◽  
Raneesha De Silva ◽  
Sara Griesbeck Garcia ◽  
Ushna Mian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Complex Trauma ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Social Deviance ◽  
Abuse And Neglect

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a mix of traits belonging to four facets: affective (e.g., callous/lack of empathy), interpersonal (e.g., grandiosity), behavioral instability (e.g., impulsivity, poor behavioral controls), and social deviance (e.g., juvenile delinquency, criminal versatility). Several scholars have argued that early childhood maltreatment impacts the development of psychopathy, although views regarding its role in the four facets differ. We conducted a meta-analysis including 47 studies comprising a total of 349 effect sizes and 12,737 participants, to investigate the association between the four psychopathy facets and four types of child maltreatment: physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse.We found support for a moderate link between overall psychopathy and childhood physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect, as well as overall childhood maltreatment. The link between psychopathy and childhood sexual abuse was small, but still significant. These associations were stronger for the behavioral and antisocial facets than for the affective and interpersonal facets of psychopathy, but nearly all associations were significant. Our findings are consistent with recently developed theories on the role of complex trauma in the development of severe personality disorders. Trauma-focused preventive and therapeutic interventions can provide further tests of the trauma-psychopathy hypothesis.

scholarly journals Some Remarks on the Changes in the Polish Penal Code During the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Ewa M. Guzik-Makaruk
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Penal Policy ◽  
Law System ◽  
Legislative Change ◽  
Legislative Procedure ◽  
The Republic

Abstract The study indicates the solutions introduced by the amendment to the Penal Code during the pandemic. These are the so-called anti-crisis shields - shield 1.0, shield 3.0 and shield 4.0. The primary role of these laws was to respond to the crises related to the COVID-19 epidemic. Amendments to the Penal Code were introduced in a manner inconsistent with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland and the Regulations of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland. The mere legislative change and increasing punitiveness of the criminal law system and penal policy will not significantly reduce crime. The work is of a presentative and systematising character. The assumed hypothesis boils down to the assertion that the changes to the penal code made pursuant to the so-called anti-Covid laws are irrational and introduced without the required legislative procedure. The study mainly used the formal-dogmatic method.

scholarly journals Examining the Foreseeable: Assisted Suicide as a Herald of Changing Moralities

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joane Martel
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Medical Assistance ◽  
Moral Regulation ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Criminal Charges

After her intense battle for the decriminalization of assisted suicide in the Supreme Court of Canada, Sue Rodriguez committed suicide with medical assistance in 1994. Following her suicide, government and law representatives remained silent and no criminal charges were ever brought against the person(s) who presumably assisted Ms Rodriguez in her death. This apparent non-intervention of criminal law is examined in view of the useful role that the Rodriguez event may have played in a possible shift in the dominant morality. It is argued that the Rodriguez assisted suicide may have been a useful 'crime' (in the Durkheimian sense) in that it brought to the fore the possibility that social conditions - which made the 'crime' possible - may no longer be in harmony with conventional morality. Similarly to Socrates' crime, the Rodriguez case can be seen as an anticipation of a new morality. It can be analysed as a prelude to alterations, as directly preparing the way for changes in the dominant morality. The role of criminal law as a preferred mode of moral regulation is also examined in relation to the moral demands and expectations that arose during as well as after the judicial saga.

scholarly journals Associations between emotional abuse and neglect and dimensions of alexithymia: The moderating role of sex.

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaquanna Brown ◽  
Paula J. Fite ◽  
Katie Stone ◽  
Allora Richey ◽  
Marco Bortolato
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Moderating Role

Egyptian Orthodox Church Among Inconsistent Political and Social Contexts

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-199
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Amin
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Political ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Important Player ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Church

Beginning with the uprising in 2011 and until the reelection of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in 2018 for a second term, the Egyptian Orthodox Church has been an important player as the representative of the Coptic Christians in the country. This article examines the role of the Egyptian Orthodox Church since the establishment of the republic in 1952 and explores the historical events that sought to redefine the role of the Church in the political sphere. Unlike the previous studies focusing on Coptic Christians and their position in the sociopolitical contexts, this study tackles the political role of the Orthodox Church in its institutional capacity. The study concludes that the Egyptian Orthodox Church has turned into an important political player in the political sphere, and its political role increased substantially with the uprising. Its power is manifested in its support for the political transformations in 2013 and the backing the regime until today.

scholarly journals Criminal protection of endangered wild plant and animal species: Challenges of legal practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
Milena Banić
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Forest Ecosystems ◽  
Wild Plant ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Penal Policy ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Criminal Charges ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Criminal Protection

With a growing environmental degradation and the destruction of natural resources, it is increasingly recognized that criminal law protection is needed as the most repressive measure to protect the environment. This paper considers the criminal law protection of biodiversity in the Republic of Serbia, Republic of Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with an emphasis on the protection of wild plant and animal species that are particularly vulnerable to overexploitation, including strictly protected and protected wild species and forest ecosystems. The analysis covers various criminal offenses against biodiversity in the context of protection of wild plant and animal species, and discusses the effects of the implementation of relevant regulations. Comparative statistics on criminal charges, as well as accusations and convictions for these crimes in the last decade, indicate a worryingly mild penal policy and a lack of capacity of professionals to act in environmental criminal proceedings. Although statistics indicate that there has been an increase in the reporting of environmental crimes, the number of reported cases remains at a worryingly low level. A large number of criminal charges are rejected, and when criminal proceedings are initiated and conducted, mild criminal penalties are imposed, most often suspended sentences or fines. All this indicates that increasing the knowledge and capacity of professionals is needed in order to improve efficiency of criminal protection against the environment and biodiversity in practice.

The Role of the Mayor – Between Political Vision and Criminal Responsibility

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 955-968
Author(s):  
Zlatan Dezman
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Case Law ◽  
State Control ◽  
Central State ◽  
The Republic ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Relationship

This paper deals with anomalies of criminal law supervision of the legality of actions of local community officials in the Republic of Slovenia. It highlights some of the dilemmas that concern the limits of central state control over local self-governing bodies. Therefore, the following will be analyzed: 1. the fundamental characteristics of the relationship between the central state and local self-governing entities; 2. the monitoring of the autonomy of local self-governing bodies when they decide on matters within their original jurisdiction; 3. the role of the mayor as a representative, executive and supervisory individual authority; 4. an analysis of existing Slovenian criminal case-law in that regard; and 5. concluding remarks.

scholarly journals Cambio de roles en la escuela e incidencia transformadora en el contexto a través de la metodología de proyectos integrados / Changing Roles in School and Incidence Transforming in the Context through Methodology of Integrated Projects

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Mercedes Blanchard ◽  
Maria Dolores Muzás Rubio
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Changing Roles ◽  
The Republic

ABSTRACTIn this article, we present an innovation project involving more than 200 teachers in Infant, Primary and Secondary Education at schools in the Republic of El Salvador, which caused strategies and instruments to be reflected upon, trained and designed, and integrated projects to be set in motion. This innovative initiative promoted a change in the role of teachers toward a function as mediator, and the role of students, transforming them into active researchers and protagonists of their learning process. Similarly, the innovative action boosted participants’ social commitment to bringing about a transformation in the relevant contexts. Aware that the key to changing the educational model are teaching staff in a mediator or learning facilitator role, a process was implemented in which teachers were given advisory and monitoring support in each of its phases. The process was based on analysis and self-reflection on the teacher’s working method, taking into account the specific requirements in each different context and students’ interests and motivations. The results showed satisfaction on behalf of the teachers, and a student body engaged in their own learning process and social contexts. The consequences of this work led to changes in the Salvadoran educational model.RESUMENEn este artículo, presentamos el proceso de innovación realizado con más de 200 profesores y profesoras de Infantil, Primaria y Secundaria en Centros Educativos de la República de El Salvador, que provocó la reflexión-formación-diseño de estrategias e instrumentos y puesta en práctica de proyectos integrados. La acción innovadora impulsó el cambio del rol del profesor hacia un profesor mediador y el rol del alumnado, convirtiéndole en investigador activo y protagonista de su aprendizaje. Asimismo, la acción innovadora potenció el compromiso social de los participantes para la transformación de los contextos. Conscientes de que la clave para el cambio de modelo educativo es el profesor mediador o facilitador del aprendizaje, se realizó un proceso con la asesoría y el acompañamiento al profesorado en cada fase. Se partió siempre del análisis y autorreflexión del modo de trabajo del profesor, teniendo en cuenta las necesidades de los contextos y los intereses y motivaciones del alumnado. Se constató, finalmente, la satisfacción del profesorado, la implicación del alumnado en su propio aprendizaje y en sus contextos sociales. Las consecuencias de este trabajo provocaron cambios en los plantea-mientos del modelo educativo salvadoreño. Contacto principal: [email protected]

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