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Moral order is disturbed by criminal events, however traditionally, issues around morality have been neglected by criminologists. Using the moral perspective Boutellier bridges the gap between people's emotional opinions on crime, and criminologists rationalised answers to questions of crime and security.

Enseigner les sciences sociales, toutes ensemble et chacune à sa place, voilà une idée dont Espaces Temps explicite la cohérence, la modernité et l'efficacité pédagogique. une idée qui fait son chemin.

The effects on scientific development of treating social science as a commodity are analyzed. The commodification of science is traced to the industrial revolution, where increased competition induced corporate & state investment in research & development. Eventually, capital is seen as having departmentalized scientific investigation & monopolized certain aspects & findings. A divorce of science from social need results from such treatment. A brief discussion of postcolonial Africa shows the effects of teaching social science courses grounded in imperialistic ideology. An increase in the scope & depth of social science criticism would shed further light on the conditions under which research is produced. 3 Illustrations. R. McCarthy.

When criminologists consider war, it is most often as a form of governmental white-collar crime. This article expands upon the criminology of war by focusing on how culture and public opinion contribute to the opportunities for war seized upon by policymakers. (Culture and public opinion can also serve as a control on war, but that is not my focus here.) The successful elite promotion of war in the public mind is indirectly criminogenic, or at least crime-enabling. This article offers an initial theoretical framework for examining indirect contributors to aggressive war, particularly culture and ideology, that exist long before military action. A sociocultural approach to the criminology of war reveals that elite criminal military action depends on the partial ideological 'enlistment' of the public. Just as we will never understand street crime without paying attention to the culture and society in which it is committed, we must consider the structural and cultural processes that form the background to war. This argument focuses on the United States, but applies broadly to all contemporary nation-states. Adapted from the source document.

In this paper the set of concepts considered to be basic to the fields of Economics, Organization Theory, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology is completed. The set of 55 basic concepts in the first two papers on basic concepts was mainly determined by considering concepts in relation to social atoms. The concepts that play a role in n-networks form the majority of the concepts added in this paper.

Law is offered as an undergraduate social science discipline at Carleton University. Students may take programmes leading to both Major and Honours B.A. degrees in law or may also undertake the study of law in a combined Major or Honours programme in conjunction with another discipline. Successful completion of any programme does not qualify the graduate for admission to any bar admission programme nor is any credit given towards a law degree for courses taken at Carleton.' The purpose of the programme is to promote an awareness of the place of rules respecting human conduct in political, social and economic environment and to provide insights of other disciplines relevant to particular legal problems. The purpose of this paper is to discuss certain aspects of Carleton's law programme. These include the impact of being part of the Faculty of Social Sciences, the development of the programme, and the format of a recent survey of the Department's graduates.

Systematic research reviews have become essential in all empirical sciences. However, the validity of research syntheses is threatened if the preparation, submission or publication of research findings depends on the statistical significance of these findings. The present study investigates publication bias in three top-tier journals in the German social sciences, utilizing the caliper test. For the period between 2001 and 2010, we have collected 156 articles that appeared in the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KZfSS), the Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ZfS) and the Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS). In all three journals, we found empirical evidence for the existence of a publication bias at the 10% level. We also investigated possible causes linked to this bias, including single versus multiple authorship as well as academic degree. We find only weak support for the relationships between individual author characteristics and publication bias.

Should social robots become part of our society? Embedded in an exciting crime story, the science comic by Oliver Korn and Jonas Grund conveys the current state and outlook of science on social robots. The story takes place in the near future: In an international project, scientists are researching the requirements for social robots for the health sector. Shortly before the prototype of a nursing robot is used in a field study, it disappears without a trace. In her first major case, the young inspector Kira embarks on a journey into the world of science. In the process, she learns a lot about social robots, AI and the world of international scientific cooperation. Again and again, critical voices are heard: anti-robot activists protest against automation and a dwindling of humanity and empathy. Even in the Commissioner's family, the possible care of elderly people by robots is controversially discussed. The overarching goal is to build knowledge across all age groups so that the advantages and disadvantages of these new technologies can be discussed controversially but knowledgeably. "Social Robots - a Science Comic" is a contribution to an informed discussion in the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, ethics and politics and is thus also suitable as a teaching and learning tool. The comic was conceived and designed for young people and adults. In particular, however, for those who have hardly come into contact with social robots and artificial intelligence so far. Another target group are people working in the health care sector, because the care and nursing of elderly people are considered to be one of the most important areas of application for social robots in the future. DINA4 portrait format, hardcover thread stitching, published in German and English. Self-published by the Affective & Cognitive Institute (ACI), Offenburg University.