The paper deals with the common assumption that our crisis-stricken age is essentialy »ruleless«, focusing mainly on the relationship between literature and Law. Relying mainly on Kant's notion of »enlarged thinking«, i.e. empathy or the capacity to think in the place of someone else, the paper presents literature as one of the main mechanisms of empathy. On the other hand, the paper tries, in the vein of Hannah Arendt, to identify the impossibility of empathic experience as the basic form of evil in political and juridical forms of social coexistence.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1588046In the post-modern context, the pressure of obligations exterted by normative systems appeara to have increasingly weak effects. On one hand - particularly at the level of core value orientations - such systems are challenged by rebelling crowds while, on the other hand (which, in fact, is deeply conformist), they are undermind by the "I-would-prefer-something-else mentality", i.e. by the impatient consumer's wish list, which is aggesively exacerbated by the advertising industry. Although the structural crisis in the capitalist economy has exposed the grotesque absurdity of the dominant ideals, the intelligentia are still babbling about solving the situation the "good old way": more work, more competition, more private ownership, etc. And, above this, they have unfurled the tattered umbrella of "human rights" - a doctrine which is certainly radical at its very core (because it calls into question the existing regime of ownership rights) and which the ideological apparatus of the bourgeois state has modified to the extent that it has become acceptable even for the establishment and its guardian angels.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 3529672The book is a result of an international research, conducted by representatives of four states (Germany, Austria, Croatia and Slovenia), funded by the EU, Austrian Bar of Criminal Defence Layers and Austrian Ministry of Justice. The research focused on the implementation of an effective right to a defence lawyer in pre-trial procedure. During the research, the participants prepared analysis of the legal framework in each participating state (the author's contribution is the chapter "Legal report: Slovenia"), followed by an empirical anaysis that included on-line questionnaires and individual interviews with representitives of criminal justice systems. The final result includes an empirical analysis of Slovenia legal framework of the right to a defence lawyer (the author's contribution is the chapter "Qualitative report: Slovenia") that identified the factors influencing the suspect's decision whether to invoke the right or not. The findings were used for the purpose of formulating a position on the need to introduce so-called "pre-trial emergency defence" mechanisms.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1548110The volume deals with the problem of violence in school and family. The articles collected in this volume present the results of a research in the conditions of violence as well as in the means of its early detection and prevention. The respective authors try to place the violence caused and suffered by youth in a broader social context, stressing the importance of the family on one side and the juridical and institutional forms of dealing with violence on the other. The volume serves as an effective platform for training professionals in educations, pedagogics and social care, expounding on the means of abuse detection and prevention.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 262388736The first part of the article is dedicated to psychological analysis of principles which govern a symbiosis, i.e. psychological conditions existing between a mother (or a father) and a child as being necessary for child's survival and best possible development. In what follows, the author writes about various deviations from "normal" symbiosis while connecting such pathologies with a possible emergence of destructive behaviours which are based on them. The key contribution of the paper lays in connecting the conclusions on psycho(pathology) of symbiosis with the infanticide as a criminal offence while special attention is paid to a critical analysis of respective Slovenian positive criminal legal provisions. In the context of described analysis, the author has serious doubts about the adequacy of introducing the effects of childbirth into the legal definition of a criminal offence. Moreover, he points out certain aspects of the unequal treatment of a mother as an offender, i.e. as an accomplice in this criminal offence, as well as the problematic exclusion of a father and other eventual parental figures as possible infanticide offenders. In concluding part, the author presents some suggestions for possible more adequate regulation of infanticide de lege ferenda.
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