Thesis (DTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2002 / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate by critical interaction with four key areas of Matthean research that 'restoration from exile' provides a valid and valuable hermeneutical prism for the interpretation of Matthew's gospel. The investigation is undertaken from a Reformed and Evangelical perspective and an inclusive approach is adopted with regard to hermeneutics, viz that interpretation should take note of the historical and literary and theological aspects of Matthew's gospel. The four key areas of investigation were chosen because they involve both particular texts and the gospel as a whole and are, respectively, Matthew's genealogy, Matthew's concept of Salvation History, the Plot of Matthew's gospel and Matthew's Use of the Old Testament. Each of these areas has already received extensive attention in Matthean scholarship, though in each case the question of'restoration from exile' has been almost entirely neglected. In each area, a brief critical survey of current scholarship is provided, both in terms of content and methodology. This survey is then followed by a discussion ofthe relevant texts and topics, demonstrating both the presence and the hermeneutical importance of the 'restoration from exile' theme. In this way, the thesis thus shows that 'restoration from exile' does indeed provide a valid though not exclusive, hermeneutical prism for the interpretation of Matthew's gospel and that such an interpretation casts fresh light on both familiar and more troublesome texts and topics of investigation. The final section of the thesis comprises a brief survey of the theme of 'restoration from exile' within the Hebrew Scriptures and a representative selection of early Jewish texts. On the basis of this survey, the conclusion is reached that despite the very real diversity within early Judaism, it is possible to conclude that perhaps the majority of Jews of the Second Temple Period saw themselves as still 'in exile', at least in theological and spiritual terms. This in turn suggests that Matthew's presentation of Jesus as the one, who by his death and resurrection brings the exile to an end, both for Israel and for the human race at large, is designed to meet a very real spiritual and theological need. Furthermore, the pervasive interest in 'restoration from exile' within representative texts from Second Temple Judaism, and Matthew's clear interest in this same theme, further support claims for the Jewish-Christian setting of Matthew 's gospel and its dual function of legitimization for the Matthean communities and evangelistic appeal to outsiders. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die proefskrif beoog om deur middel van kritiese wisselwerking met vier sleutelgebiede van navorsing met betrekking tot die Matteusevangelie aan te toon dat 'terugkeer uit ballingskap' 'n geldige en waardevolle hermeneutiese prisma bied vir die verklaring van die Matteusevangelie. Die ondersoek word vanuit 'n Gereformeerde en Evangeliese standpunt onderneem. Daar word 'n inklusiewe hermeneutiese benadering gevolg, d. w.s. die historiese, literere en teologiese aspekte van die Matteusevangelie word in ag geneem. Die vier sleutelgebiede van ondersoek is gekies vanwee hulle verb and met spesifieke teksverse en die Matteusevangelie as geheel. Die sleutelgebiede is, onderskeidelik, die geslagsregister in Matteus I: 1-17, Matteus se konsep van heilsgeskiedenis, die plot van die Matteusevangelie en Matteus se gebruik van die Ou Testament. Elkeen van hierdie gebiede is in die verlede al breedvoerig deur geleerdes ondersoek, maar die tema van 'terugkeer uit ballingskap' is in elkeen van hierdie areas feitlik totaal verontagsaam. 'n Verkorte opsomming en bespreking van die hooftrekke van die bydraes van geleerdes word vir elk van die vier gebiede gegee, beide met betrekking tot inhoud en metodiek. Dit word gevolg deur 'n uitleg van sleutelverse en relevante temas om beide die teenwoordigheid en die belang van die 'terugkeer uit ballingskap' tema aan te toon. Op die wyse word daar in die proefskrifbewys dat 'terugkeer uit ballingskap' wei 'n geldige en waardevolle, dog nie die enigste nie, hermeneutiese prisma vir die uitleg van die Matteusevangelie verskaf. Dit is ook duidelik dat so 'n uitleg van Matteus wei nuwe lig op sowel bekende as minder bekende en moeiliker teksverse en temas gooi. Laastens word daar ondersoek gedoen na die belangstelling al dan nie in die tema 'terugkeer uit ballingskap' in die Ou Testament en 'n verteenwoordigende seleksie vroee Joodse geskrifte. Daar word aangetoon dat ondanks die verskeidenheid van wereldsienings onder die verskillende Joodse groepe, daar tog 'n algemene beskouing onder die meeste Jode van daardie periode was dat hulle steeds, ten minste in 'n geestelike en teologiese sin, 'in ballingskap' verkeer. Teen hierdie agtergrond is Matteus se voorstelling van Jesus as die Een wat die ballingskap vir Israel en die mensdom tot 'n einde bring van uiterste belang. So 'n belangstelling in 'terugkeer uit ballingskap' versterk ook verder die siening dat Matteus sy evangelie vir Joodse Christene geskryf het en dat Matteus se geskrif beide 'n legitimerings- en evangeliseringsfunksie vervul.

Darbe analizuojami skirtumai tarp Lietuvos vaiko apsaugos teisės aktų ir Jungtinių Tautų vaiko teisių konvencijos nuostatų bei keliamas klausimas, ar Lietuvos teisinė vaiko apsauga nuo smurto užtikrina Jungtinių Tautų keliamus tikslus dėl fizinių bausmių draudimo. Išnagrinėtos fizinio smurto rūšys bei formos nacionaliniu ir tarptautiniu lygmeniu. Atlikta Jungtinių Tautų vaiko teisių konvencijos, Europos žmogaus teisių konvencijos, Jungtinių Tautų vaiko teisių komiteto rekomendacijų nuostatų analizės. Nustatytas fizinės bausmės ir fizinio smurto teisinis santykis. Magistro darbe taip pat atskleista, ar fizinių bausmių reglamentavimas nepažeidžia privataus šeimos gyvenimo teisės. Pateikiama teisinės vaiko apsaugos problematika Lietuvoje. Aptariamas baudžiamasis ir administracinis teisinis vertinimas. Problemos sprendimui pagrįsti išnagrinėta Lietuvos teismų praktika. Darbo pabaigoje pateikiamos rekomendacijos dėl fizinių bausmių draudimo reglamentavimo Lietuvoje. / Having analysed the differences between the child protection legislation in Lithuania and the United Nations Child Rights Convention, in the paper it has been revealed that Lithuania does not implement the objectives set by the United Nations on banning of corporal punishment. The study has revealed that in the national domestic law Lithuania has not banned corporal punishment by law. The concept of corporal punishment is not defined neither by a framework of child’s rights nor by domestic violence laws in Lithuania. Having examined all issues, it is concluded that the corporal punishment is violation of human dignity and the right to bodily integrity and the inviolability, because it contradicts the provisions of European Convention on Human Rights.

Due to the fact that Scripture is the authoritative Word of God (Belgic Confession. Article 5), the infallible written Word of God. is and stays the basis for Christian ethics. Scripture is not just another single source for Christian ethics among other sources, but it is the decisive source among all other sources. The question then arises - how is it possible in the ever-changing life situation of the modem day context of society? In an ever increasing secularized society places the Christian life and also the Christian ethics under more pressure. The acceptance of the authority of Scripture is therefore indispensable for Christian ethics. Scripture does however not present a text as an absolute answer for every possible or similar ethical problem. The deep-seated principles of Scripture must be exposed. From these principles norms should be derived that is applicable to the modem problem. The problem statement that follows from this culminates as the following: Can a thematic analysis of the Biblical dogma present a fundamental working foundation for Christian ethics in modem day society and serve as a corrective for the problematic approaches of a biblicistic as well as an over critical view of Scripture for the basis of ethics? The central theoretical argument of the study is the following: A thematic analysis of the Biblical dogma can indeed present a fundamental, working foundation for Christian ethics in modem day society and can serve as a corrective for the problematic approaches of a biblicistic as well as an over critical view of Scripture for the basis of ethics. In the second chapter the definitions of what could be defined as Christian ethical perspectives and principles is examined. In other words, the purpose of the chapter is to examine and to give a broad overview of the understanding of ethics, morality, morals etc. The qualified deontological approach is chosen due to the fact that normative approach with its focus on Scripture as authoritative therein plays a big role. The third chapter focuses on which view of Scripture and use of Scripture is normally applied in Reformed ethics in the use or interpretation of Scripture. Special attention is given to the authority of Scripture, view of Scripture and an attempt is made to convey the hermeneutical points of departure (axioms) in order to derive an intra-biblical use of Scripture. The chapter comes to the conclusion that even though the Christian ethicist does have in theory at his disposal a biblical-founded hermeneutical model it does not safeguard him against a faulty use or interpretation of Scripture in practice in the fourth chapter the present-day Scriptural principles that serves as basis and cadre for the interpretation of Scripture in light of the answering of Christian ethical questions is examined. In light of the present-day situation seems that although there is a sound hermeneutical axiom that serves as filters in the interpretation of Scripture in the reformed ethics, in practice either a biblicistic or a Criticism of Scripture approach to Scripture is chosen. The approaches of the fundamentalistic/biblicistic and Criticism of Scripture is examined and m e s to the conclusion that both, in their own way, does bring the authority and the message of Scripture in disrepute. In the event of the fundamentalistic and biblicistic approach the divine inspiration character of Scripture is overemphasized and all Scriptural Utterances is treated on the same level to such an instance that everything is sanctioned. In the event of the Criticism of Scripture the human fallible character is again overemphasized to the extent that the normative authority of Scripture for Christian ethics is not taken into account . The chapter comes to the conclusion mat a "third way” must be examined to circumvent the many pitfalls of either a fundamentalistic/biblicistic of Criticism of Scripture in the interpretation of Scripture in light of a modem day ethical problem. In the fifth chapter an adjudication and evaluation of the quality of the use or Interpretation of Scripture in light of capital punishment within the biblical view of a right to life is given as a representative of modem day ethical problems. In light of the principles given in Chapter 3 and 4 it is shown that Scripture is most often misused despite fair hermeneutical principles Only to reflect the ethicist own preconceived ideas. The last chapter indicates an approach that might possibly serve as an alternative/valid use or interpretation of Scripture in reformed ethics other than a typical biblicistic/fundamentalistic or Criticism of Scripture approach. The chapter draws to the conclusion that the contextual-paradigmatic approach is at this time the only capable approach of acknowledging the proper interpretation of Scripture to shed some light on the ethical problems of modem day society, without stepping into the boundaries of either a biblicistic/fundamentalistic of Criticism of Scripture interpretation of Scripture. The contextual-paradigmatic approach succeeds in preventing the ethicist to misinterpret Biblical texts that seems to be of importance to the debate of capital punishment and to make a scientific contribution lo important debates in South Africa today, especially those related to the interpretation of the Bible and its use in the development of South Africa. In this way an attempt is made to contribute towards and to provide guidelines for a healthy and responsible society and for the functioning of Christians within the current South African state. The message of the Bible must thus be established in a responsible and valid way, and communicated effectively to society. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Ethics))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006

La distinction contemporaine n’a pu empêcher les responsabilités civile et pénale de cheminer vers un rapprochement pratique tant en droit français qu’iranien. Nous avons démontré qu’à la fonction réparatrice de la responsabilité civile peut s’additionner une fonction punitive qui s’incarnerait dans "la peine privée", et à la fonction répressive de la responsabilité pénale une fonction réparatrice appelée "restitution pénale". Grâce au prononcé des dommages et intérêts officiellement indemnitaires, mais objectivement punitifs, les juridictions parviennent à réprimer des comportements qu’elles estiment devoir sanctionner. Ainsi, l’officialisation de la peine privée ne paraît pas seulement possible, elle serait, aussi, extrêmement utile. Parallèlement, la responsabilité pénale, développe une dimension restitutive incontestable, permettant d’assurer notamment la réparation de tous les chefs de dommages soufferts par une victime ou encore supprimer la situation illicite. La restitution est donc utilisée comme un outil de répression. Greffée aux poursuites, elle se transforme en un moyen de désencombrement des juridictions et contractualisation du procès pénal. Intégrée à la peine, elle permet d’individualiser la sanction pénale. Les deux modes de responsabilités doivent se rejoindre dans une perspective de cohérence d’une responsabilité juridique afin que la justice soit rendue avec une dimension sociale. / The contemporary distinction did not prevent the civil and criminal liability to move toward a practical reconciliation in both French and Iranian law. We have show that restorative function of the civil liability can add up to a punitive function that is embodied the “private punishment” and the repressive function of criminal liability create a restorative function called “criminal restitution”. Through the pronouncement of damages officially compensated but objectively punitive, the Courts are able to repress behaviors which they consider to be punishable. Thus, the formalization of punitive damage seems not onlypossible, but also extremely useful. At the same time, criminal liability develops an undeniable restorative dimension, making it possible to ensure the repair of all the heads of damages suffered by a victim or to further discourage the illegal situation. The restitution is thus used as a tool for repression. Graft prosecution, it becomes a way of relieving the courts and contracting of the criminal trial. Incorporated into the sentence, it allows individualizing the criminal sanction. The two modes of liability must come together in a coherent perspective of legal liability so that justice is done with a social dimension.

La présente thèse avait pour but d’étudier les liens qui existaient entre la psychopathie du parent et les pratiques parentales utilisées. L’échantillon était composé de 65 parents francophones, hommes ou femmes, ayant au moins un enfant âgé entre 6 et 10 ans. Les parents ont été rencontrés à leur domicile, à l’école de leur enfant ou dans un organisme communautaire. Le Self Report Psychopathy Scale R12-III (Paulhus, Hemphill & Hare, sous presse) a été traduit en français pour la présente étude afin de mesurer la psychopathie du parent. La version francophone de l’Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (Pauzé & al., 2004) a été utilisée pour mesurer cinq pratiques parentales : les pratiques éducatives positives, le manque de supervision, l’engagement, la discipline incohérente et les punitions corporelles. La version francophone de l’échelle de désirabilité sociale abrégée de Marlowe-Crowe (Crowe-Marlowe, 1960) a été jointe aux deux autres questionnaires (Bergeron, Valla & Breton, 1992). Des régressions simples ont été effectuées entre le score global de psychopathie et chacune des cinq pratiques parentales énumérées ci-dessus. Ensuite, des régressions multiples ont été exécutées afin de vérifier quel était le meilleur facteur de la psychopathie pouvant prédire chaque pratique parentale. Les résultats ont montré que la psychopathie était associée négativement de façon significative aux pratiques éducatives positives et à l’engagement. Un lien significatif positif a été soulevé entre la psychopathie et l’utilisation des punitions corporelles. Les analyses secondaires ont démontré que le facteur interpersonnel de la psychopathie expliquait une proportion significative des pratiques éducatives positives. Le facteur antisocial a prédit, quant à lui, une petite partie significative de l’engagement au-delà de l’explication fournie par la désirabilité sociale. Le style de vie du psychopathe a contribué à une proportion significative de l’explication de la variance des punitions corporelles. Il semblerait pertinent d’intervenir le plus tôt possible auprès du parent et de l’enfant afin d’éviter que les mauvaises pratiques et les traits psychopathes ne se répètent dans les générations futures. Des méthodes d’intervention ont été suggérées. Les forces et les faiblesses de l’étude ont été discutées. / The goal of the present thesis was to evaluate the associations between parental psychopathy and parenting methods. A total of sixty-five French parents, male or female, having at least one child between the ages of 6 and 10 year old, participated in the study. Parents were met at home, at their child’s school or in a community center. Parental psychopathy was measured by the Self Report Psychopathy Scale R12-III (Paulhus, Hemphill & Hare, sous presse) that had been translated into French for the purpose of the study. The French version of Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (Pauzé & al., 2004) was used to assess positive reinforcement, lack of parental monitoring, parental involvement, consistency in applying discipline and corporal punishment. Social desirability was assessed using the French version of the short form of the Marlowe-Crowe (Crowe-Marlowe, 1960) scale (Bergeron, Valla & Breton, 1992). Regressions between psychopathy and parenting practices were used to explore the associations. Multiple regressions were used to examine if one of the four psychopathy factors could predict educational methods. Psychopathy was negatively associated with positive reinforcement and involvement. Psychopathy was related positively with corporal punishment. Of the four factors of psychopathy, the interpersonal dimension accounted for a significant explanation of positive reinforcement. The antisocial factor account for a significant incremental of the involvement variance after social desirability was controlled. Life style seemed to explain a significant account of corporal punishment. The results suggested that it would be important to take action as early as possible towards the parent and the child to prevent the transmission of less effective parenting methods and psychopathic traits in the future generations. Suggestions of interventions were made and the strengths and limitations of the study were discussed.

With the expansion of the use of private prisons and detention centres worldwide and the increasing involvement of private actors in the provision of custodial services, this doctoral thesis considers life inside two private prisons in England. Using theoretically informed ethnography it evaluates the effect of responsibility on men imprisoned in two private prisons in England. Firstly, it briefly reviews the background and development of prison privatisation in England and Wales and considers the role and place of private prisons as part of a wider neo-liberal shift. Secondly, using qualitative data gathered inside two private prisons, it evaluates if these prisons, through their regimes, are trying to create responsible self-governing prisoners. The thesis reviews both, how regimes and practices in place in these two prisons attempt to forge responsible prisoners, and how individual men and groups of prisoners experience, feel about, cope with and assimilate penal messages of self-governance and responsibility. Finally, it questions both the impact of responsible prisoners for prisons and the impact of responsibility on prisoners and argues that, whilst there is a benefit to fostering environments in which prisoners are enabled to become responsible and self-governing, a careful balance must be maintained, as for some men the responsibility itself becomes characteristic of the "pain of imprisonment".

Contrary to our intuitive expectations about a positive group influence on human performance behaviour, there is a vast body of literature proving the opposite. All the research is based on findings of Max Ringelmann who more than 120 years ago proved in the oldest social psychological experiment ever known that people cooperating on a common task tend to exert less effort than what would be their potential. This performance decrement is caused by coordination losses which relate to the very principles of a team work as well as motivation losses. Because of the tendency of people to limit their effort in collective settings the newly discovered phenomenon has been called social loafing. A group influence on individual's performance became also a main subject of this diploma thesis. Compared to a majority of research dealing with the same topic the present one employs a completely new type of interactive task which involves an intensive cooperation of all group members. We have used in our experiment an original simulation where players are in a role of top management in one movie production company and their goal is to make a strategic decision based on the information distributed among all the team members that will bring them the biggest profit. Consequently we have directly analysed behaviour of...

This diploma thesis has following goals: (1) to describe the original form of the point scheme suggested by doc. Jaroslav Skála (2) to describe the contemporary form of point schemes in chosen specialized wards for substance abuse treatment in psychiatric and general hospitals in the Czech Republic (3) to describe differences among contemporary forms of point schemes and the point scheme suggested by Jaroslav Skála (4) to find out, whether there are efforts to work with the forms of point schemes; (5) to describe reasons, why some wards tend to change the point schneme. This thesis is devided into the theoretical and practical part, conclusion and following discussion. Theoretical part deals mostly with the theory of the point scheme - its founder, formation, history and theoretical background. It also deals with its place in behavioral and cognitive-behavioral therapy and contingency management. The practical part describes the original form of the point scheme, it also describes contemporary forms of point schemes and then compares them with the original form following chosen criterions. This part also deals with the problem, why the point scheme is not used in some wards, especially why they retreated from it. The research questions are answered in the conclusion. The discussion contains the...

This work statistically analyses hypotheses about the presence of antisocial punishment in study of economic experiments. Analysed data source is author's own ABM simulation of antisocial punishment environment. Tested hypotheses and ABM simulations are evolutionary oriented. This represents natural selection of evolving agents (and their groups) interacting with one another. Work is divided by two independent parts of presumptions. Crucial hypothesis of the first part is evolutional advantage from retaliatory punishment, the second part tests hypotheses of evolutional benefits resulting from group selection. Findings of the analysis allow us to accept these crucial hypothesis, and it may be concluded, that antisocial punishment can be regard as an evolutionary advantage, which directly advantages individuals, as well as whole groups.

Les mutilations corporelles constituent un ensemble de pratiques qui révèle non seulement la perception qu’une société a de son corps, mais aussi le rapport qu’elle entretient avec celui des autres. Si les sciences sociales modernes ont abandonné cette appellation pour des expressions plus neutres telles que « modifications corporelles », elle se justifie encore pleinement pour l’Antiquité dont nous avons hérité une vision stéréotypée du corps beau assortie d’un rejet de toute forme d’altération. Après une nécessaire définition des cadres du sujet, nous proposerons une étude lexicale du vocabulaire grec de la mutilation corporelle avant de nous pencher sur notre problématique : les sources antiques aussi bien que l’historiographie moderne associent les mutilations corporelles avec le monde « barbare », c’est-à-dire non grec. S’agit-il d’un cliché, remonte-t-il à l’Antiquité ? les Grecs n’ont-il pas témoigné fidèlement de pratiques observées ? Nous approcherons ces questions en distinguant trois axes : la mutilation en tant que châtiment barbare, punir le corps mort dans les cultures non grecques et la mutilation comme l’expression d’une autre vision du corps. Nous tâcherons de distinguer dans les sources grecques ce qui relève d’une part de stéréotypes et d’autre part d’informations ethnographiques. Un telle démarche permet au chercheur d’appréhender les pratiques de mutilations corporelles ayant cours dans l’Antiquité et la perception qu’en avaient les Anciens. / Physical mutilations can be defined as a set of practices which is relevant to the way a society sees its body but also to the connection it has with the body of the Other. Social sciences have abandoned this term for a more neutral designation such as “body modification”, however for the purpose of our study the old name is still adequate for we have inherited from Antiquity a stereotyped way of considering the beauty of the body and of rejecting all kind of alteration. We will start by an essential definition of our subject before offering a complete lexical study of the Greek vocabulary dealing with mutilation. Then, our main problematic will concern the issues which appear characteristic of ancient and modern historiography: are physical mutilations – as a typical “barbarian”, i.e. non Greek, feature – a cliché that goes back to Antiquity? Did the Greeks give any kind of truthful evidence of practices that were effectively observing? We will approach these questions from three angles: mutilation as a barbaric punishment, chastising the dead in non Greek cultures, mutilation as the expression of a different way of seeing the body. We will aim at separating in the ancient Greek sources what can be regarded as stereotypes from true ethnographic information. This might help scholars to understand body modifications that were in use in Antiquity as well as the way the Ancient were viewing them.