Explore with Me: Peer Observation Decreases Risk-Taking but Increases Exploration Tendencies across Adolescence

Journal of Youth and Adolescence - It has been assumed that adolescents increase risk-taking tendencies when peers are present but findings on experimental decision-making have been inconclusive....     

Global Constitutionalism and the International Legal Personality of the Individual

Netherlands International Law Review - It is a widespread notion, perhaps even a truism, among international legal scholars that international law went from a pre-World War II...     

Images of Coordination: How Implementing Organizations Perceive Coordination Arrangements

A crucial challenge for the coordination of horizontal policy programs—those designed to tackle crosscutting issues—is how to motivate government organizations to contribute to such programs. Hence, it is crucial to study how practitioners in implementing organizations view and appreciate the coordination of such programs. Assisted by Q-methodology, this inductive study reveals three significantly different “images”: central frame setting, networking via boundary spanners, and coordination beyond window dressing. Most surprisingly, different images show up among respondents within the same organizations and horizontal programs. The authors find that the images reflect elements of the literature: the resistance to hierarchical central control, the need for local differentiation and increased incentives, and a collaboration-oriented culture. Most importantly, practitioners of implementing organizations perceive top-down mechanisms as ineffective to achieve coordination and ask for adaptive arrangements, involvement, and deliberative processes when designing coordination arrangements and during the collaboration.     

Die Reform des nationalen Artenschutzrechts mit Blick auf das Urteil des EuGH v. 10.1.2006 in der Rs. C-98/03 (NuR 2006, 166)

Der Europ?ische Gerichtshof hat mit seinem Urteil vom 10.1.2006 die Bundesrepublik Deutschland wegen unzureichender Umsetzung von Art. 12 Abs. 1 lit. d sowie Art. 16 FFHRL durch § 43 Abs. 4 BNatSchG verurteilt. Damit wird nach der Caretta-Entscheidung des EuGH vom 30.1.2002 zum zweiten Mal innerhalb kurzer Zeit das System des deutschen Artenschutzrechts in Frage gestellt. Der Bundesgesetzgeber ist nun gefordert, das nationale Recht entsprechend anzupassen. Die nachfolgende Betrachtung nimmt zun?chst die Vorschrift des § 43 Abs. 4 BNatSchG in den Blick und pl?diert für deren Ausgestaltung als Abweichung im Sinn der Ausnahmeregelungen der FFH- und Vogelschutz-Richtlinie. Weiter beleuchtet sie den Vollzug des Artenschutzrechts im Rahmen der naturschutzrechtlichen Eingriffsregelung und spricht sich für eine Verankerung der Richtlinienvorgaben in § 19 BNatSchG aus.     

“I Realized that I couldn’t Act Normal”: a Qualitative Study of Sexual Assault Survivors’ Experiences of Workplace Disclosure

Journal of Family Violence - Sexual assault results in psychological, physical, and financial consequences for survivors. The distress caused by sexual assault can lead to work-related consequences...     

Violent and sexual offences: a validation of the predictive quality of the PCL:SV in Switzerland

Used to diagnose psychopathy, the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV) is still rarely used in the German-speaking part of Europe. The aim of the present study was to conduct a first-time evaluation of the predictive validity of the PCL:SV for sexual and violent recidivism in the German language area. PCL:SV scores for 96 violent and sexual offenders in Switzerland were assessed. These assessments were based on data taken from the forensic psychiatric expert opinions. The scores were then compared to subsequent recidivism as shown in the official criminal records. ROC analysis indicated a cut-off score of 14 for maximized overall predictive accuracy. Consistent with various results from past research in North America and Europe, the PCL:SV yielded a satisfying predictive accuracy (ROC area=.69). This degree of accuracy demonstrates the PCL:SV's usefulness for risk assessment of sexual and violent delinquency in the Swiss cultural and German language area.     

‘Tolling for the luckless,the abandoned and forsaked’: Therapeutic jurisprudence and international human rights law as applied to prisoners and detainees by forensic psychologists

Objectives. There has been an explosion of interest in therapeutic jurisprudence as both a filter and lens for viewing the extent to which the legal system serves therapeutic or anti‐therapeutic consequences. However, little attention has been paid to the impact of therapeutic jurisprudence on questions of international human rights law and the role of forensic psychologists. The paper aims to provide an intersection between human rights, therapeutic jurisprudence, and forensic psychology. Method. Human rights are based on legal, social, and moral rules. Human rights literature generally considers legal rights but such policy statements do not provide principles to guide forensic psychologists in addressing moral or social rights. Therefore, a framework to guide forensic psychologists is required. Conclusion. As duty‐bearers, forensic psychologists need to address the core values of freedom and well‐being in rights holders (in this instance, prisoners and detainees with a mental illness). The paper proposes that human rights principles can add to the normative base of a therapeutic jurisprudence framework, and in‐turn, therapeutic jurisprudence can assist forensic psychologists to actively address human rights.