Den aktuella studien undersöker stöld som begås av anställda utifrån en kriminologisk teori som integrerar individuella och kontextuella faktorer – Situationella handlingsteorin. Syftet med studien är att testa huruvida denna teori utgör en lämplig förklaringsmodell för stöld som begås av anställda inom den svenska café- och restaurangbranschen samt detalj- och partihandeln. Studien ämnar även undersöka om individers stöldbenägenhet skiljer sig åt på respektive utanför arbetsplatsen. Studien grundar sig på primärdata inhämtad med hjälp av en webbenkät, distribuerad på det sociala nätverket Facebook. Materialet analyserades statistiskt och de huvudsakliga resultaten visar att individens benägenhet, i form av moral och självkontroll, samt motivation i form av frestelser, kan bekräftas som viktiga prediktorer för stöld som begås av anställda. Med grund i de samlade resultaten dras slutsatsen att Situationella handlingsteorin kan anses vara en lämplig förklaringsmodell för stöld på arbetsplatsen. / The present study examines theft committed by employees from a criminological theory, which integrates individual and contextual factors – Situational Action Theory. The purpose of this study is to test whether this theory is an appropriate model of explanation for theft committed by employees of the Swedish café and restaurant industry as well as retail and wholesale trade. The study also intends to examine whether individuals differ in their propensity to steal in, compared to outside of, their workplace. The study is based on primary data acquired with an online questionnaire, distributed on the social network Facebook. The material was analyzed statistically and the main results showed that individual's propensity, in the form of morality and self-control, and motivation in the form of temptations, can be confirmed as important predictors of theft committed by employees. With the foundation of the overall results the conclusion is that the Situational Action Theory could be considered a suitable model of explanation for theft in the workplace.

The focus of this research was to identify the moral reasoning and moral judgment of elementary school principals who serve in high-poverty schools. The study was undertaken at the request of the client public school district who was attempting to identify characteristics of current elementary principals serving in high-poverty schools. Two research questions guided this study concerning the moral operational level of the principals. The theoretical framework of the study was based on the work of Lawrence Kohlberg and his stages of moral development. Participating principals were administered the Defining Issues Test-2 (DIT-2), a pencil-paper questionnaire that presented five moral dilemmas and a series of statements asking for the participant to rank solutions to the dilemmas. The results indicated that the majority of participants operated from lower levels of moral development, reasoning, and judgment. Participants’ scores were matched with their schools’ performance grades. There was not an indication that high moral scores and high school performance were linked. This study confirmed the results of an early study conducted by Vitton and Wasonga (2009) and encourages a deeper examination of the results of accountability and principal decision making.

This dissertation attempts to answer two questions. First, what is the social function of the letter of James? Second, how does James design the structure of the text to align with its communicative goal? This study presumes the letter of James as a member of ancient wisdom literature. Contrary to common (mis)understandings, ancient wisdom literature shows a general tendency in its composition. A legitimate sage collects and evokes old sayings and proverbs. Then, the wisdom is reinterpreted and contemporized for the current situation. Through this process, the sage helps his readers develop a sense of right and wrong, develop moral reasoning skills, and cultivate virtues. I will argue that this pattern, moral formation, is present in the unfolding of James’s letter to his diasporic readers. Regarding the structure of the letter of James, after Dibelius, many attempts have been made to present the letter as a cohesive text with a literary structure, which is unified by a single global theme. In this framework, most of what have been proposed as a structure of the letter is more or less topic (or theme)-based. Unfortunately, however, neither a rigorous definition of topic nor a method for determining it has been clearly stated. The limits of the topic-based approach become problematic when applied to the structure of James whereby diverse topics are scattered here and there throughout the text. Attempts to draw intricate lines between these units through topical or thematic similarities make the structure of James very complicated (e.g., inclusio or chiasm). This study attempts to break this methodological impasse by employing Ruqaiya Hasan’s genre theory developed in a systemic functional framework. James’s letter is delimited in terms of function, not topic or theme. In search for the function of each segment, I explore textual (semantic chain and cohesive harmony), ideational (transitivity, verbal aspect, and voice), and interpersonal meanings (grammatical person and speech functions).

According to Wikstörm’s (2012) Situational Action Theory (SAT), engaging incriminogenic behaviour is influenced by a person’s crime propensity, such as self-control and morality. Moral rules applied to a setting, and their degree ofenforcement, are stated as crucial since individuals are in constant interaction withtheir surroundings. Criminogenic exposure, such as having criminal friends and thetime spent with friends, is according to SAT (ibid.) influential on criminogenicbehaviour. The purpose of this study was, through hypothesis testing, to investigatethe applicability of SAT based on different environmental contexts. Aggressivecriminogenic behaviour was measured through bullying. Offline- andcyberbullying corresponded to aggressive criminogenic behaviour in differentenvironmental contexts. This study found that morality, self-control, andcriminogenic exposure, were significant in relation to offline bullying. Self-controland having criminal friends were significant in relation to cyberbullying. Genderwas used as a confounding variable and showed that girls are more prone tocyberbullying than boys, and that boys were more prone to offline bullying thangirls. Testing SAT applicability by comparing online and offline criminogenicbehaviour is understudied, further research on other online criminogenic behavioursis therefore encouraged, as well as the relationship between gender and anonymityas well as their influence in SAT.

[pt] Na obra A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree, Wil Waluchow apresenta uma concepção alternativa para cartas de direito e para revisão judicial em sede de controle de constitucionalidade. O autor visa demonstrar as vantagens e a legitimidade democrática na adoção de cartas constitucionais escritas e de juízes como agentes capazes de encontrar o que chama de moralidade constitucional da comunidade. Para isso, Waluchow propõe a concepção de que as cartas mesclem pontos fixos e flexíveis, de modo a ser capaz de conferir a segurança jurídica necessária sobre determinados direitos aos indivíduos, mas promovendo certa flexibilidade sobre como e em que casos os direitos devem ser reconhecidos e ponderados. A análise de Waluchow se volta para direitos que, via de regra, são prescritos em linguagem aberta, que demandam a mensuração de sua incidência por meio de escolha oficial informada face aos casos concretos. Tal característica ocorre em razão da relevante influência da moral sobre os supracitados direitos, pois sua interpretação se modifica e evolui ao passo que o mesmo ocorre na moralidade social. Para construir sua fundamentação, Waluchow se propõe a apresentar e responder às objeções que, segundo ele, possuem maior força argumentativa, sendo seu maior expoente Jeremy Waldron. Nesse sentido, o presente trabalho se volta a apresentar o modelo proposto por Waluchow a ser adotado nas democracias constitucionais e em seguida expor a análise de outros autores sobre sua obra. A partir disso, avalia-se criticamente a viabilidade prática de sua proposta, os pontos a serem mantidos e os que devem ser reformados ou melhor fundamentados pelo autor em sua contribuição ao debate jurídico-interpretativo da norma constitucional. / [en] In his work A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree, Wil Waluchow presents an alternative conception for charters of law and for judicial review in the context of constitutional review. The author aims to demonstrate the advantages and democratic legitimacy of adopting written constitutional letters and judges as capable agents to find what he calls the community s constitutional morality. For this, Waluchow proposes the concept that the charters merge fixed and flexible points, in order to be able to provide the necessary legal certainty on certain rights to individuals while promoting certain flexibility on how and in which cases rights should be recognized and weighted. Waluchow s analysis turns to rights that, as a rule, are prescribed in open language that demands the measurement of their incidence, through informed official choice in the face of concrete cases. This feature is due to the relevant influence of morals on the aforementioned rights, as their interpretation changes and evolves while the same occurs in social morality. To build his foundation, Waluchow proposes to present and answer the objections that, according to him, have greater argumentative force, with its greatest exponent being Jeremy Waldron. In this sense, the present work turns to present the model proposed by Waluchow to be adopted in constitutional democracies and then exposes the analysis of other authors about his work. From this, the practical feasibility of its proposal is critically evaluated, the points to be maintained, and those that must be reformed or better substantiated by the author in his contribution to the legal debate to interpret the constitutional rule.

El propósito de esta tesina consiste en realizar un análisis literario y filosófico de la novela La familia de Pascual Duarte, escrita por Camilo José Cela. En esta investigación se busca explorar los principios éticos y morales presentes en la ética nicomáquea de Aristóteles, destacando conceptos fundamentales como la felicidad, la virtud, la justicia y la prudencia. Posteriormente, se analizará la conexión entre estos principios filosóficos y las acciones y decisiones del protagonista de la novela, Pascual Duarte. / The purpose of this essay is to conduct a literary and philosophical analysis of the novel La familia de Pascual Duarte, written by Camilo José Cela. This research aims to explore the ethical and moral principles found in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, emphasizing fundamental concepts such as happiness, virtue, justice and prudence. Subsequently, the connection between these philosophical principles and the actions and decisions of the novel's protagonist, Pascual Duarte, will be analysed.

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