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Despite the tendency of some modern scholars to mark Augustine as the father of religious coercion, the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) cites him as a principal source for freedom of conscience. This essay presents evidence from Augustine&rsqu...

Background/Objectives: Perceived coercion has been associated with significant negative outcomes, including service avoidance and psychological distress. Despite growing interest, no recent comprehensive review has mapped the full range of factors in...

Aims: The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of the perceived coercion of people with mental illness living in a community on their therapeutic satisfaction and life satisfaction, mediated by therapeutic relationships. Methods: We evaluat...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic brought renewed attention to electronic voting—this time as a potential option to contain the spread during elections. One of the long unresolved topics with remote voting is the risk of voter’s coerc...

Coercion of service users/patients when receiving care and treatment has been a serious dilemma for mental health services since at least the 18th century, and the debate about how best to minimise or even eradicate compulsion remains intense. Coerci...

Attitudes of mental health professionals towards the use of coercion are highly relevant concerning its use coercion in mental healthcare, as mental health professionals have to weigh ethical arguments and decide within a legal frame in which situati...

Cyber coercion, where legitimate users are forced to perform actions under duress, poses a serious insider threat to modern organizations, especially to critical infrastructure. Traditional security controls and monitoring tools struggle to distingui...

Despite growing concerns over coercion in contraceptive care, few studies have described its frequency and manifestations. Further, there is no established quantitative method of measuring this construct. We begin to fill this gap by detailing nuance...

This study examines how mandatory digital service environments, in which human-assisted alternatives are systematically withdrawn, shape older consumers’ avoidance of self-service technologies (SSTs). We conceptualize perceived coercion as cons...

Background/Objectives: Coercive measures remain a common practice in mental health, despite ethical concerns, potential risks, and uncertain efficacy. Mental healthcare workers’ (MHCWs) attitudes toward coercion can influence their use. However...

In Paul Dukas’s opera, Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, when the captive wives are allowed to leave their confinement, they refuse to do so and remain with their aggressor. This narrative raises a central question: why do some women remain in violent con...

Background: Being subjected to or witnessing coercive measures in mental health services can have a negative impact on service users, carers and professionals, as they most often are experienced as dehumanising and traumatic. Coercion should be avoid...

This paper proposes NetVote, an internet voting protocol where usability and ease in deployment are a priority. We introduce the notion of strict coercion resistance, to distinguish between vote-buying and coercion resistance. We propose a protocol w...

Exploring the coordinated development of the tourism economy and ecological environment in China’s border areas is of great significance for promoting high-quality tourism development and ecological barrier construction in these regions. This s...

Background/Objectives: Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonists (LHRHa) are widely used to induce ovarian suppression in premenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. Although effective, abrupt medical menopause may negative...

Recent empirical data suggests that the majority of adolescents and emerging adults utilize digital technology to engage with texting and social media on a daily basis, with many using these mediums to engage in sexting (sending sexual texts, picture...

Electronic voting systems inherently encompass a structural tension among ballot secrecy, verifiability, and coercion resistance. Voters must be able to verify whether their votes have been included; however, if such verification information can serv...

Campus sexual assault is a pervasive issue impacting the well-being, quality of life, and education of all students. There have been many recent efforts to prevent and address campus sexual assault, most notably the adoption of affirmative consent st...

Coercion in psychiatry is associated mainly with involuntary admissions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations between hospital admissions of patients suffering from affective and schizophrenic disorders and seasonality. A sys...

Every year more temporary migrant workers come to Canada to fill labour shortages in the agricultural sector. While research has examined the ways that these workers are made vulnerable and exploitable due to their temporary statuses, less has focuse...

Several scholars have criticized the efforts to explain Indian mantras as spells, but much is left to clarification. Why do submission-versus-coercion characterizations keep reoccurring, albeit disputed? Why does the difference between this-worldly a...

Background: Current policies to reduce the use of involuntary admissions are largely oriented towards specialist mental health care and have had limited success. We co-created, with stakeholders in five Norwegian municipalities, the ‘Reducing C...

This article examines state-level COVID-19 policy and social reproductive care in the United States through theoretical, policy-genealogical, and empirical lenses. It reworks the early “COVID moment,” from March to November 2020, as a pol...

The efficacy of immunotherapy in colorectal cancer (CRC) has long been considered to be closely associated with microsatellite instability (MSI) status. Patients with microsatellite stable (MSS) tumors typically exhibit poor responses to PD-1/PD-L1 i...

Based on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), several UN bodies, among them the High Commissioner for Human Rights, have argued for a complete ban of all coercive interventions in mental health care. The authors concep...

This study aimed to analyze gender, anxiety, and psychological inflexibility differences of high school students’ behaviors in a simulated situation of peer coercion into academic cheating. Method: A total of 1147 volunteer adolescents participated,...

In August 2019, a manuscript was published in this journal that aimed at imagining a mental health care system that renounces the judicial control to better focus on the will and preferences of those who require support. Alternative scenarios for dea...

With the development and application of the Internet of Things (IoT), the volume of data generated daily by IoT devices is growing exponentially. These IoT devices, such as smart wearable devices, produce data containing sensitive personal informatio...

This study analyses the relation between student misbehaviour and teacher coercion from a teacher perspective by taking further contextual variables into account. Our participants were 480 male/female secondary education and 351 primary education tea...

Social experiences can shape adult behavior and cognition. Here, we use El Abra swordtails (Xiphophorus nigrensis) to assess how life-long experience with different male mating tactics shapes coercion evasion ability and female spatial cognition...

The new Dutch Care and Coercion Act aims to better regulate the use of psychotropic drugs for challenging behaviour in people with an intellectual disability. This study explores experiences of intellectual disability physicians (IDPs) in prescribing...

Background/Objectives: The use of coercive measures in psychiatry is an ethically controversial issue. Staff attitude towards coercive measures could explain the different application frequencies of coercive measures across psychiatric services. Meth...

Exposure to pornographic material has been linked to sexual aggression perpetration and victimization in a large body of research. Based on social learning theory and ₃A theory of script learning, this study contributes to this research by testing th...

Pressure to send sexually explicit messages, or ‘sexting coercion’ is associated with adverse mental health outcomes and sexual risk behaviors. This study explores Differentiation of Self (DoS) as a potential protective factor to reduce s...

Coercion theory posits that a vicious cycle of negative reinforcement traps both parents and children, shaping young children to become stably aggressive in conflicts with their parents. Research on intimate partner violence has found some evidence s...

Energy can become an instrument of geopolitical coercion when asymmetric dependencies, infrastructure vulnerabilities, and limited resilience allow energy resources, supplies, prices, technologies, or infrastructure to be strategically exploited. Thi...

The aim of this study was to analyze the attitudes of professionals in Mental Health Services throughout Spain who are directly or indirectly involved in the use of mechanical restraint and the barriers perceived to reduce its use. The study involved...

Background: The number of meteoropaths, or people negatively affected by weather conditions, is rising dramatically. Meteoropathy is developing rapidly due to ever poorer adaptations of people to changes in weather conditions. Strong weather stimuli...

Background: Children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders frequently experience hospital treatment as coercive. In particular, for patients with severe anorexia nervosa (AN), clinical and ethical challenges often arise if they do not voluntaril...

Despite many calls to reduce or eliminate the use of mechanical restraint, it is still widely used in many countries. Studies using patient interviews have a very clear message: Patients experience mechanical restraint as the most humiliating interve...

Aims: The presented article summarizes the topics and recommendations of a large-scale mixed-methods study on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Justice. The mandate was to eval uate the implementation of involuntary admission (Fürsorgerische Unte...

Coercive measures in healthcare are frequently used worldwide, and are especially visible and discussed in psychiatry. Ethical, moral and legal questions have become increasingly frequent over past decades, as medical practice has evolved towards mo...

Background/Objectives: Community psychiatric care aims to support recovery, autonomy, and lower reliance on inpatient services, but co-occurring substance use may reduce these gains. This study examined associations between psychiatric care pathway,...

Power entails the ability to act and overcome the obstacles erected by those who are subject to it. It also entails the capacity to make one’s crimes acceptable, while formulating criminal imputations against others. The crimes of the powerful, in th...

This paper investigates how Mandarin-speaking children acquire event culmination in causative change-of-state verbs, focusing on the contrast between resultative verb compounds (RVCs; e.g., shā-sǐ ‘kill-dead’), which entail culm...

The foundation of new centers for civic education has sparked a new round of debate over the political independence of the public university. Do legal mandates by state legislatures undermine academic freedom? The underlying debate concerns alternati...

This study aimed to explore the problem of inmate sexual victimization in a Greek male prison. A total of 400 individuals were approached in the largest Greek male prison and 50 individuals participated. The questionnaire examined sociodemographic, o...

We aimed at developing and validating a scale on the beliefs and attitudes of mental health professionals towards services users’ rights in order to provide a valid evaluation instrument for training activities with heterogeneous mental health...

In Western countries the general rule is that caregivers do everything possible to prevent suicide. The aim of this essay is to critically reflect on that position along three questions: is there an unconditional obligation to live, how far does the...

The need to better monitor coercion practices in psychiatric hospitals has been recognised. We aim to describe how physical restraint events occur in psychiatric hospitals and identify factors associated with physical-restraint use. A cohort register...