Fear Of Sanctions Research Articles

Online Harassment: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision-Making

The current study employs a construct from the criminological literature, thoughtfully reflective decision-making (TRDM), to understand cyber offenders’ decision-making and offer relevant insights to prevent online harassment. Using a sample of Iranian high school students ( N = 366), we employ OLS and SEM to test whether and how TRDM, perceived deterrence, and prior victimization influence the most common forms of online harassment: cyberbullying and cyberstalking. Findings demonstrate cyberbullying and cyberstalking victimization increase engagement in offending behavior while participants’ fear of sanction reduces engagement in both cyberbullying and cyberstalking perpetration. Notably, results demonstrate that TRDM has a direct, mediating, and moderating effect on both forms of offending. TRDM also has an indirect effect on cyberbullying and cyberstalking perpetration through victimization and participants’ perceptions of sanction. Unlike contemporary, pre-dispositional theories of crime, TRDM is dynamic and can be improved via educational programming. We posit that current cyber hygiene campaigns should include elements aimed to improve individuals’ cognitive decision-making capabilities. Guided by theory, and based on the results of the current study, this translational approach could prevent victimization while simultaneously improving other elements of the participants’ life.

‘It’s One Rule for Them and One for Us’: Occupational Classification, Gender and Worktime Domestic Labour

In this article, we focus on gender and class to investigate worktime domestic labour. Methodologically, we extend a novel, comparative critical realist method in which occupation-based and gendered positions in productive and reproductive labour are foregrounded. By building theoretical connections between labour process conditions and collective rule-following practices, we illustrate how inequalities are inscribed organisationally. Our analysis provides a more critical contextualisation of technological affordances to develop the literature on how technology is implicated in the reproduction of social inequality. Moreover, our analysis identifies multi-level causal processes, which combine to explain the presence and actualisation of worktime domestic labour or its absence, which is due, principally, to fear of sanction. For realist researchers interested in diversity-based challenges, absences are important because they can point towards specific discriminatory mechanisms. Our investigation thus revealed a surprising level of class-related in-work inequality within the gendered dynamics of domestic work.

Predikstolens frihet och frihetens gränser

Freedom of preaching: Cathedral chapters evaluation of freedom and its limits The notion of “freedom of preaching” (actually “freedom of the pulpit”) has been used in the Church of Sweden to describe the idea that a priest has the right to preach freely, without the fear of sanctions from authorities. However, this notion is not mentioned in either the Swedish church order or in church law. In the Church of Sweden, cathedral chapters are the instance handling supervisory matters about priests. If a priest has expressed him- or herself inappropriately on one or several occasions, the matter may be taken up in a conversation with the vicar or the bishop and usually does not result in a penalty. If there is a written notification, or the bishop is not content with the conversation, the cathedral chapter will treat the matter However, a penalty may be relevant if a priest misbehaves in several ways, including through their preaching. Cathedral chapter decisions about penalties for priests who have expressed themselves inappropriately just once are known to have been cancelled by a superior instance of the Church of Sweden. In conclusion, there is no absolute “freedom of preaching” in the Church of Sweden. There are limits to what a priest may say in a sermon. Penalties – such as a written remark or a three-year probation period – are sometimes imposed if a priest misbehaves in several ways. The priest may also lose his/her authority to practise the ministry.

Do Sexist Comments Hinder Participation in Online Political Discussions?

Abstract: Women who visibly engage in politics online experience a lot of backlash. The presented study investigates sexist incivility against women in online political spaces as a possible explanation for the gender gap in online political discussion and expression. Online sexism solidifies the masculine norm in online political spaces. Drawing on social cognitive theory and the theory of normative social behavior, we understand online incivility as communication mechanisms that enforce gender norms in online political discussions. We use a preregistered online survey experiment with German Internet users to investigate how sexist comments in online political discussions affect women’s participation in the discussion, perceived social norms about participating, and their internal political efficacy. We found no effects of sexist comments on the propensity to engage in the discussion or the political efficacy to contribute. However, the presence of sexist comments increased the fear of sanctions in both men and women. The null findings of the preregistered experiment occurred despite sufficient statistical power and a successful treatment check. We discuss several possible explanations for the null effects and ways forward.

Good Neighbors, Good Response: Roxas, Capiz Post-Haiyan

The Philippines’ risk communication system relies on information dissemination, which disregards local capacity for managing risk. This research aimed to examine risk communication in Roxas City, an important economic center working on capacitation after damage by Supertyphoon Haiyan. Guided by Encoding-Decoding theory, the researcher interviewed government officers and facilitated discussions at coastal and inland communities. The researcher found that local government viewed communities as audiences who intuitively knew what to do with scientific information. The coastal community had indigenous knowledge but acted based on fear of sanctions. The inland community discussed information from media, which led to community decision-making. These findings imply that local governments should consider the role of social networks unique to different communities when planning risk communication and hazard response.

Normative vs. Instrumental model of police legitimacy: examining the mediation effects of fear of sanction

ABSTRACT The current study assesses the impact of fear of sanction on police legitimacy. Specifically, we examine both instrumental and normative police legitimacy by assessing the impact of procedural justice and police effectiveness as the predictor of perception of police legitimacy which ultimately leads to a sense of obligation to obey the police. Using a South Korean college sample (n = 2,188), we examine the mediation effect of fear of sanction on the antecedents of police legitimacy such as procedural justice and police effectiveness. The results indicate support for both instrumental and normative models of legitimacy, in that, procedural justice and police effectiveness were both significant predictors of perception of police legitimacy that leads to an increased sense of obligation to obey the police. However, fear of sanction failed to mediate the effects of procedural justice and police effectiveness on police legitimacy and obligation to obey.

Legal Awareness and Community Legal Compliance

Legal awareness is related to lawful compliance, the thing that recognizes it is that in lawful compliance there's a fear of sanctions. Legitimate mindfulness that there are no sanctions, could be a definition from the lawful community with respect to the appraisal, which has been carried out deductively, the values contained in humans around the existing law or around the law that's anticipated to exist. The inquire about goes up against individuals based on instrumental and standardizing points of view. This investigate strategy is standardizing lawful inquire about, specifically lawful investigate conducted by investigating library materials. Based on the examination that has been done, it can be concluded that open legitimate mindfulness influences legitimate compliance either straightforwardly or by implication. In created social orders, the calculate of legitimate mindfulness contains a coordinate impact on community legitimate compliance. In conventional social orders, open lawful mindfulness has an circuitous impact on lawful compliance. They comply the law not since of their coordinate conviction that the law is sweet, but since they are inquired, indeed implemented by their pioneers, or since of devout orders or convictions.

Universal Credit and the invalidation of mental health problems: claimant and Jobcentre Plus staff experiences

Moving disabled people ‘off benefits and into work’ has been an explicit aim of work-first welfare reform since 2008, increasingly punitively since 2010. The aim of this article is to demonstrate, for the first time, how Universal Credit (UC) fits with and intensifies that strategy. Empirical data from 28 in-depth interviews with 19 claimants (nine were interviewed twice) and three focus groups with 23 Jobcentre staff show how UC full service applies mainstream job search conditionality to people with mental health problems. Ongoing fear of sanctions, financial hardship, surveillance and social isolation relating to digital design had adverse impacts, including for those without previous mental health problems.

Behaviourally informed approach to corporate criminal law: Ethicality as efficiency

An extensive body of behavioural evidence suggests that our actions are not primarily steered by threats of sanction but, instead, by morals, habits, and social norms. This proposition applies equally in corporate environments. Yet, corporate criminal law has traditionally relied on fear of sanctions and deterrence as the prevailing theoretical guidance. This article argues that this line of thinking leads to misinformed regulatory results because of a misguided behavioural assumption of an amoral calculative individual. To bridge the gap between the accumulated behavioural data and doctrinal corporate criminal law, this article suggests a novel behaviourally informed corporate crime prevention theory. Instead of solely concentrating on deterrence and threats of sanction, modern corporate criminal policy should favour regulatory designs that incentivise ethics-based corporate compliance structures that make use of morals as efficient behavioural constraints. Based on the findings of this article, this is best attained by adopting a guilt-based corporate criminal liability model recognising a corporation as a moral actor capable of ethical considerations.

Why passive? Exploring national judges’ motives for not requesting preliminary rulings

This article explores why national judges remain passive on EU legal integration by examining judges’ reasons for not requesting preliminary rulings from the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The article combines insights from social psychology and literature on the role of national courts in European integration to formulate expectations regarding what type of motives guide national judges’ behaviours. Drawing on interviews held with Croatian, Slovenian and Swedish judges, our results reveal three shared reasons judges remain passive: referrals are not required by the formal rules (procedural normative motivation), referrals are not made to protect the parties to the case (substantive normative motivation) and referrals are not made to protect judges’ reputations (instrumental motivation). In addition, we unveil motives that are shared by only judges from one or two Member States, such as not referring cases to uphold the capacity of the preliminary ruling procedure (Swedish judges) and not referring cases due to a fear of sanctions and a lack of knowledge and resources (Croatian and Slovenian judges). We discuss these similarities and divergences in light of the theoretical discussion on the role of courts as active or passive actors in EU legal integration.

Self management as the key to the success of a modern health manager

Highlights the essence of the concept of “self-management” and provides its author's interpretation. The goals and objectives of self-management in general and separately in the field of health care are considered. It was found that in order to effectively manage the staff of a health care institution, the manager, first of all, needs to know the science and art of self-management. General and local principles of science and practice of self-management are indicated.
 The aim of the article is to develop and analyze the main features of self-management as the basis of success of a modern health care manager.
 Materials and research methods are general scientific research methods such as systems analysis, comparison, generalization, swat analysis, forecasting. Studying the already studied components of the selected topic, such research methods as generalization, comparison, systems analysis were used. The basis for the study were the works of domestic and foreign scientists.
 Results: the article establishes that self-management helps the leader: rationally organize their work and the work of their subordinates; realize professional and life goals; avoid stressful situations; increase efficiency; enjoy the work done. An analysis of the scientific literature has led to the conclusion that strong leadership is important to ensure the success of any medical institution. A manager who pays due attention to self-development is the key to the success of a healthy atmosphere in the team. Research indicates a high level of professionalism and creativity achieved by managers only when they have a need for professional self-development, self-improvement, as well as when they show a motivational and value attitude to themselves as a subject of medical activity.
 Conclusions. Summarizing the above, it should be emphasized that self-management certainly affects the development of the modern manager of health care, so the following suggestions for the implementation of this method: to overcome administrative barriers to maintaining old management methods; to avoid problems caused by the inertial nature of public consciousness; reduce the level of conflict in the team; to overcome differences in professional competence; instill immunity to the fear of sanctions of the team - ridicule, overt and covert condemnation, ignorance

Teacher regulation and agency through the lens of Durkheim’s professional ethics

ABSTRACT In discussions of the regulation of teaching, there are a number of issues which arise concerning how teachers understand the professional expectations upon them and the role that such standards play in supporting and maintaining the ethical dimensions of teachers’ practice. Arguably, teachers’ professional standards evolve to meet the needs of the societies in which they exist. Consequently, they provide a locus for analysis of the desires, aspirations and philosophical perspectives of the social and educational systems to which they belong. Durkheim’s ideas about professional ethics provide a means of making sense of the complex and varied landscape of teacher regulation. They provide a way of seeing teacher professional standards as not constrained by neoliberal conceptions of regulation in which the fear of sanction may limit imaginative engagement with the profession. Instead, even within highly managerial systems, we begin to see professional standards as a prompt to engaged and ethical action for the greater good. In this sense, Durkheim’s work facilitates a way of seeing professional standards as having the capacity to magnify teachers’ innate potential for positive social impact regardless of the context in which they work.

Containing COVID-19 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Government Measures and Women's Compliance

AbstractThis article concerns the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It analyses the sanitary measures that the government has taken to respond to the pandemic since March 2020, the way these measures are enforced, and the extent to which women comply with the measures. The article draws from desk research and empirical data from the eastern city of Bukavu, where the research team conducted 134 structured interviews. The findings show widespread willingness to comply with some of the main measures because of fear of sanctions, fear of the pandemic and because of trust in the state or church. The article argues that many women hold the state accountable for the success in containing the virus, but also criticize the state for not providing livelihood assistance during the state of emergency. Further research is needed to assess the impact of COVID-19 on state legitimacy.

Corruption and the criminal law: Assurance and deterrence

In this article, I consider the degree to which criminal justice interventions may be expected to ameliorate systemic corruption. I distinguish between two ideal types of corrupt actors – conditional cooperators and autonomous defectors – and argue that the prospects of reform through criminal justice are greatly affected by the relative preponderance of each type. When conditional cooperators predominate, the criminal law serves primarily to provide assurance that a perceived social norm is effective, in that the norm is both widely adhered to, and adhered to because people endorse the propriety of that norm. When autonomous defectors predominate, the criminal law serves primarily to deter would-be cheaters by attaching costs, at least in expectation, to cheating. Because patterns of compliance based upon a social norm tend to be self-reinforcing, unlike patterns of compliance motivated by fear of sanction, I argue that the prospects of sustainable reform through criminal justice interventions is likely to depend to a substantial degree upon convincing people to trust social norms rather than rely upon their private judgments of what is in their interest – that is, to become conditional cooperators.

The role of social acceptability and guilt in unethical consumer behavior: Following the crowd or their own moral compass?

Consumers may choose to behave opportunistically and unethically in dealing with firms which can affect the firms’ finances. Both external and internal forces guide this choice for consumers: the fear of sanctions for acting in a manner that society considers unacceptable, and guilt resulting from violating their own internal ethical standards. This paper examines how the interaction of these forces determines the likelihood of unethical consumer behavior. We find that when an unethical behavior is more socially acceptable, even if illegal, individual differences in guilt proneness have greater bearing on a consumer’s decision to behave unethically. However, the role of individual guilt proneness matters lesswhen the unethical behavior is less socially acceptable. The results are consistent across numerous settings in which the firm offers varying degrees of license to consumer to act opportunistically, and potentially unethically (i.e., abusing merchandise return policies, illegally downloading media, and paying small amounts in pay-what-you-wish situations). Our findings reveal boundary conditions of the effect of guilt proneness on ethical behavior suggesting that managers potentially can curtail unethical behavior through making a behavior less socially acceptable, or by influencing the context of the unethical behavior.

Can community monitoring save the commons? Evidence on forest use and displacement

Rapid deforestation is a major driver of greenhouse-gas emissions (1). One proposed policy tool to halt deforestation is community forest management. Even though communities manage an increasing proportion of the world's forests, we lack good evidence of successful approaches to community forest management. Prior studies suggest that successful approaches require a number of "design conditions" to be met. However, causal evidence on the effectiveness of individual design conditions is scarce. This study isolates one design condition, community-led monitoring of the forest, and provides causal evidence on its potential to reduce forest use. The study employs a randomized controlled trial to investigate the impact of community monitoring on forest use in 110 villages in Uganda. We explore the impact of community monitoring in both monitored and unmonitored areas of the forest, using exceptionally detailed data from on-the-ground measurements and satellite imagery. Estimates indicate that community monitoring does not affect our main outcome of interest, a forest-use index. However, treatment villages see a relative increase in forest loss outside of monitored forest areas compared to control villages. This increase is seen both in nonmonitored areas adjacent to treatment villages and in nonmonitored areas adjacent to neighboring villages not included in the study. We tentatively conclude that at least part of the increase in forest loss in nonmonitored areas is due to displacement of forest use by members of treatment villages due to fear of sanctions. Interventions to reduce deforestation should take this potentially substantial effect into consideration.

Real-time prescription monitoring: helping people at risk of harm.

SUMMARYMisuse of opioid analgesics and other psychoactive medicines is a serious and increasing problem in Australia. Measures are being taken to try and prevent this progressing to a public health crisis like the opioid overdose epidemic seen in the USAOne measure is real-time prescription monitoring. This provides real-time information about the patient’s supply of psychoactive medicines which have a high risk of being misusedHaving identified a patient at risk, many factors may delay appropriate management or result in the patient being discharged from care. These factors include subconscious negative stereotyping, a focus on preventing ‘doctor shoppers’ diverting psychoactive medicines, and a fear of sanction by regulatorsThe Medical Board of Australia provides guidance about good practice. Patients should be treated with respect, free from bias and discrimination, and without prejudicing care because of the belief that their behaviour has contributed to their problems

Evaluating bundles of interventions to prevent peat-fires in Indonesia

The carbon-dense peatlands of Indonesia are a landscape of global importance undergoing rapid land-use change. Here, peat drained for agricultural expansion increases the risk of large-scale uncontrolled fires. Several solutions to this complex environmental, humanitarian and economic crisis have been proposed, such as forest protection measures and agricultural support. However, numerous programmes have largely failed. Bundles of interventions are proposed as promising strategies in integrated approaches, but what policy interventions to combine and how to align such bundles to local conditions remains unclear. We evaluate the impact of two types of interventions and of their combinations, in reducing fire occurrence through driving behavioural change: incentives (i.e. rewards that are conditional on environmental performance), and deterrents (e.g. sanction, soliciting concerns for health). We look at the impact of these interventions in 10 villages with varying landscape and fire-risk contexts in Sumatra, Indonesia. A private-led implementation of a standardised programme allows us to study outcome variability through a natural experiment design. We conduct a systematic cross-case comparison to identify the most effective combinations of interventions, using two-step qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and geospatial and socio-economic survey data (n = 303). We analysed the combined influence of proximate conditions (interventions, e.g. fear of sanction) and remote ones (context; e.g. extent of peat soil) on fire outcomes. We show how, depending on the level of risk in the pre-existing context, certain bundles of interventions are needed to succeed. We found that, despite the programme being framed as rewards-based, people were not responding to the reward alone. Rather sanctions and soliciting concern appeared central to fire prevention, raising important equity implications. Our results contribute to the emerging global interest in peat fire mitigation, and the rapidly developing literature on PES performance.

Accountants perception of the factors influencing auditors' ethical behaviour in Nigeria

This paper examines the perception of accountants (chartered and non-chartered) of the personal factors influencing auditors' ethical behaviours in Nigeria. Data were obtained from 152 accountants (80 chartered and 72 non-chartered) in Lagos State Nigeria through the use of a well-structured questionnaire. The data collected were analysed using nonparametric tests (Wilcoxon rank-sum test and Mann–Whitney test) to check for differences in the perceptions of chartered and non-chartered accountants of the personal factors influencing auditors' ethical behaviours. The results showed that, except for auditors' age, there is a consensus in the perceptions of both chartered and non-chartered accountants of the personal factors influencing auditors' ethical behaviours. While there were significant divergent views on whether age influences auditors' ethical behaviours, fear of sanction, religion, upbringing, conscience, gender, and personal values were found to be influencers of auditors' ethical behaviours. The study offers value to professional accounting bodies in that it provides empirical explanations to guide the pursuit of sustainable and resilient ethical values among accounting professionals.

Ethical evaluation of medical errors and the patient's safety.

In the offer of health care services, errors may arise that are repeated, so when one has occurred, it is essential to reflect on the elements that could cause it and act on them; however, in general, there is a natural tendency to hide them, mainly due to fear of sanctions or lawsuits. The ethics of clinical safety finds it essential to reveal errors, including almost errors or those without significant consequences, betting on transparent management of them. No error should be filed, since its review in an honest and open manner is not only an ethical obligation, but it can also help to lessen its effects and improve the doctor-patient relationship. Achieving safe medical care requires continuous learning about how the different components of the system interact, this implies putting into practice the behaviors that have shown their effectiveness to reduce the probability of the appearance of faults and errors, increase their detection and reduce their consequences, as well as continuing to investigate the factors that contribute to improving patient safety and the quality of care. In this paper we analyze the incidents related to patient safety, through statistical information from the Comisión Nacional de Arbitraje Médico (CONAMED), referring to complaint files concluded by arbitral award in the 2012-2016 period.