»The Wrongfulness of Crimes. On Rights and Rights Violations in Criminal Law«: The thesis challenges a common view in criminal law theory, which understands criminal wrongdoing as offences against ...the state. Instead, the author proposes a paradigm shift arguing that crimes are conceivable as intersubjective right violations and simultaneously as violations of the legal community. Thus, the book provides the foundation for a better understanding of the role of victims in criminal law and an innovative critical standard for evaluating criminal law and criminal procedure.
»The Wrongfulness of Crimes. On Rights and Rights Violations in Criminal Law«: The thesis challenges a common view in criminal law theory, which understands criminal wrongdoing as offences against ...the state. Instead, the author proposes a paradigm shift arguing that crimes are conceivable as intersubjective right violations and simultaneously as violations of the legal community. Thus, the book provides the foundation for a better understanding of the role of victims in criminal law and an innovative critical standard for evaluating criminal law and criminal procedure.
The psychological and psychiatric literature has seldom appreciated the clinical fact that fears of ghosts and kindred supernatural worries may be a cause of intense discomfort, poor sleep, and ...socio-occupational impairment. In the present article, this claim is illustrated by the clinical features of six patients who developed intense anxiety when they had to sleep alone at night. The fears were first noticed in childhood and persisted into adolescence and adulthood. At these times, they were overwhelmed by images of ghosts and haunted houses often experiencing a vivid impression that an immaterial being not perceivable by the ordinary senses was hovering around. Comorbidity with other phobias was the rule. Owing to shame and self-consciousness, the fears were seldom if ever discussed with healthcare professionals. The overall clinical and psychopathological picture was consistent with a diagnosis of a specific phobia. In a few cases, response to pharmacological treatment and cognitive-behavioral intervention has alleviated the symptoms. "Phobia of the supernatural" may be more common than usually thought. It must actively be sought for in patients complaining of poor sleep and daytime somnolence, and in patients with other types of phobia. The differential diagnosis of phobia of the supernatural includes nocturnal panic attacks, psychosis, other types of phobia that tend to occur during the night, dissociative states of sleep, dementia, and a few rare presentations of epilepsy. Systematic studies must be carried out to settle the neurobiological correlates of phobia of the supernatural as well as the possible benefit of different modalities of pharmacological and psychological treatment.
This book focusses on Russia’s cultural statecraft in dealing with a number of institutional cultural domains such as education, museums and monuments, high arts and sport. It analyses to what extent ...Russia’s cultural activities abroad have been used for foreign policy purposes, and perceived as having a political dimension. Building on the concept of cultural statecraft, the authors present a broad and nuanced view of how Russia sees the role of culture in its external relations, how this shapes the image of Russia, and the ways in which this cultural statecraft is received by foreign audiences. The expert team of contributors consider: what choices are made in fostering this agenda; how Russian state authorities see the purpose and limits of various cultural instruments; to what extent can the authorities shape these instruments; what domains have received more attention and become more politicised and what fields have remained more autonomous. The methodological research design of the book as a whole is a comparative case study comparing the nature of Russian cultural statecraft across time, target countries and diverse cultural domains. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Russian foreign policy and external relations and those working on the role of culture in world politics.
Die zunehmende Diversität von Studierenden und ihren Bildungsbiographien nimmt Hochschulen in die Verantwortung, flexibel und individuell auf Lernbedarfe und -gewohnheiten zu reagieren. An der ...Universität Bielefeld wurde daher zum WS 2018/2019 die Vorlesung „Einführung in die quantitativen Forschungsmethoden“ erstmalig als „Inverted Classroom“-Vorlesung durchgeführt. In einer qualitativen Befragung (teilstandardisiertes Interview) wurden sechs Studierende dazu befragt, wie sie mit den digital aufbereiteten Materialien gearbeitet haben. (DIPF/Orig.)
The rising diversity of students and their backgrounds is increasing the need for universities to offer flexible and individualized learning arrangements and to respect diverse learning habits. Therefore, at Bielefeld University the lecture “Introduction to quantitative research methods” was organized in an inverted classroom format. Using a qualitative empirical research approach, six students were interviewed regarding how they worked with the IC material. (DIPF/Orig.)
The authors' main purpose in this article is to examine whether peer presence, measured by overall class attendance rate, has any significant effect on college students' academic performance. They ...use a rich dataset from an intermediate microeconomics course from the fall of 2008 to the spring of 2013 at a public university in Taiwan. The estimation results reveal a significant and negative effect of peer attendance on individual students' examination performance. This result suggests that potential distraction from peers dominates the beneficial effect of peer attendance. In addition, the subsample estimation shows that the presence of peers produces a negative effect on better-motivated students' examination performance. Hence, the beneficial effects of a typical mandatory attendance policy considered in prior literature must be reassessed.
Comparisons show online courses to be inferior to blended learning courses. Studies of the absence of students from classes as well as time budget analysis of the workload of Bachelor students ...provide evidence for a positive effect of the face-to-face component of blended learning environments on learning success. Attendance or presence seems to be even more important for the learning success than self-study, which in today’s bachelor curricula with their conservative structure and classical teaching methods reduces learning to cramming. This essay presents some evidence for a special role of attendance for learning success and explains the positive effect of face-to-face (f2f) situations through motivation and communication theory, and an analysis of recorded lectures.
This book is first of its kind to deal with the interwar Jewish emigration from Germany in a comparative framework and follows the entire migration process from the point of view of the emigrants. It ...combines the usage of social and economic measures with the individual stories of the immigrants, thereby revealing the complex connection between the socio-economic profile varieties and the decisions regarding emigration - if, when and where to. The encounter between the various immigrant-refugee groups and the different host societies in different times produced diverse stories of presence, function, absorption and self-awareness in the three major overseas destinations - Palestine, the USA, and Great Britain -- despite the ostensibly common German-Jewish heritage. Thus German-Jewish immigrants created a new and nuanced fabric of the German-Jewish Diaspora in its main three centers, and shaped distinct identifications and legacies in Israel, Britain, and the United States.
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