THE RULES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW THAT REGULATE THE USE OF INTERSTATE FORCE
Just as the most important norms governing the behaviour of individuals are embodied in domestic law, some norms governing the behaviour of states are embodied in "international law.
G. Conradie
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Spatial utilization predicts animal social contact networks are not scale-free [PDF]
While heterogeneity in social behaviour has been described in many human contexts it is often assumed to be less common in the animal kingdom even though scale-free networks are observed.
Alex James +4 more
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Compelled to do the right thing [PDF]
We use a model of opinion formation to study the consequences of some mechanisms attempting to enforce the right behaviour in a society. We start from a model where the possible choices are not equivalent (such is the case when the agents decide to ...
Abramson, G. +2 more
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Robust study design is as important on the social as it is on the ecological side of applied ecological research [PDF]
1. The effective management of natural systems often requires resource users to change their behaviour. This has led to many applied ecologists using research tools developed by social scientists.
Jones, Julia P.G. +3 more
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Farsi giustizia da sé: strategie di sopravvivenza e crisi della legalità
When achievement of his rights as an individual is neither guaranteed nor possible, the citizen is obliged to adopt measures of self-protection. These assume a non-formai character and can turn into “translegal”, “alegal” or “illegal” behaviour (i.e ...
Emanuele Sgroi
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The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014: implications for sex workers and their clients [PDF]
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 introduced new powers to deal with behaviour deemed to be ‘anti-social’. In this paper we consider how the new law could be used against sex workers and their clients and the
Ashworth A. +21 more
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CONSUMER IN THE THEORY AND ECONOMIC PRACTICE: ECONOMICS – PSYCHOLOGY – LAW
Aim of the article is to point at institutional implications of the consumer theory originated from various theoretical approaches. Theories being under scrutiny are: neoclassical theory of consumer which is situated in the core of the mainstream ...
Arkadiusz Graczyk
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Parent abuse: Can law be the answer? [PDF]
© Cambridge University Press 2012This article reviews the different forms of legal interventions which may be available to address parent abuse. It seeks to examine the evidence as to which are actually used currently and the problems which are inherent ...
Burton +8 more
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“No German, No Service”: EU Migrants’ Unequal Access to Welfare Entitlements in Germany
While existing research has analysed the intersecting migration and social security law, which stratifies migrants’ formal social entitlements, less work has been done on the informal stratifications beyond the law that determine substantive social ...
Nora Ratzmann
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Second-chance punitivism and the contractual governance of crime and incivility: New Labour, old Hobbes [PDF]
The growing application of mechanisms of contractual governance to behaviour that breaches social norms, rather than the criminal law, appears to represent an ethopolitical concern with delinquent self-reform through the activation of technologies of the
Garland D. +6 more
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