There is a great social debate regarding possible legal privileges favouring some ethnic groups over othersin a particular society. This fact may negatively influence citizens’ perceptions about fairness and legitimacyof the mainstream legal system and, thus, compliance with established social norms. The main purpose ofthe present study was to analyse the perception of the mainstream legal system in citizens belonging todifferent ethnic groups. In particular, this work had two objectives. First, the purpose was to explore interethnicperceptions of legal authorities and the justice system by examining the following variables:procedural justice, distributive justice, legitimacy of the legal system, contact with police, and reasons forobeying the law. A second objective was to test the predictive power of perceived procedural justice,distributive justice, and contact with police in the subsequent perception of legitimacy across the differentethnic groups. The sample was composed of 351 participants, who were split into two groups: White-Europeans (76.4%) and ethnic minorities (23.6%). Results revealed ethnic group differences in all studyvariables, showing ethnic minorities a more general negative attitude towards the legal system in terms ofprocedural justice, distributive justice and legitimacy conceded to the legal system, in comparison with themajority group. Moreover, legitimacy conceded to legal authorities was predicted by procedural justice, butnot by distributive justice neither contact with police, in both groups. Practical and policy implications arediscussed based on the importance of citizens’ perceptions about the legal authorities in order to legitimatethe mainstream legal system

The OTIL is a new information literacy (IL) test, designed to be flexible and adjustable for use across a variety of contexts where IL is important. This paper discusses the development and face validation of OTIL and a Higher Education (HE) add-on that can be used to make the test HE specific. OTIL was developed in line with the new CILIP (2018) definition. It is comprised of a core set of general IL questions which can be combined with context-specific add-on question sets. Categories of IL form a template that can be used for additional question creation. Additionally, we have developed add-on questions for HE which do not contain in-built specificities to domain, region or institution in order to permit for IL research across different universities. The OTIL is designed for longitudinal research, with three The Development and Face Validity Testing of OTIL 2

This archival study investigated the use of risk factors proposed by certain theories of developmental pathways of antisocial behaviour, namely those of Moffitt (1993) and Loeber (1985) , in predicting program drop-out at a treatment facility for youths exhibiting serious behavioural difficulties (Robert/Smart Centre). The study evaluated 113 youths admitted to the RSC on their infractions during treatment and seven risk factors proposed by the two developmental theories. Analyses indicated that youth who failed to complete the RSC prescribed intervention programs exhibited a wider variety of infractions during treatment. Both variety of infractions and program drop-out were significantly predicted by the developmental risk factors. Specifically, infractions, early overt behaviour, current covert behaviour, and cognitive/learning difficulties were the best predictors of program drop-out. Mediation analyses revealed a direct relationship only between program drop-out and current covert behaviour. Interestingly, mediation analyses revealed that variety of infractions suppressed the relationship between program drop-out and cognitive/learning difficulties. The implications of these findings for theory and practice are discussed.

Although relationship satisfaction has been widely explored, there is a gap in the literature on how factors such as the legal recognition of relationships, relationship orientation and gender affect intentions to engage in infidelity. This study aimed to explore the effect of the legal recognition of relationships, relationship orientation and gender on intentions to engage in infidelity, while controlling for relationship satisfaction. Three hundred forty-seven participants were recruited. The participants were aged between 22 to 79 years (M=41.48, SD=10.16) and in a relationship between 5 and 59 years (M=15.21; SD=9.41). The countries where the participants were raised were split into three categories: no, partial and full legal recognition. The Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale Short form, The Relationship Assessment Scale, The Intentions Towards Infidelity Scale were utilised. ANCOVA indicated that legal recognition is an important factor in intentions to engage in infidelity, furthermore females in heterosexual relationships from countries with full recognition had lower intentions to engage in infidelity. This study aimed to give direction for future research by highlighting the similarity of homosexual and heterosexual relationships when legitimised and focused more on gender differences.