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The occurrence of crime is caused by several factors, namely criminal biology, criminal psychology, and criminal sociology. Even though there are many factors related to an offender committing an act of sexual abuse based on that basis, I took a research entitled: "Criminological review of the causes of people committing an act of sexual immorality (Study of the Demak State Decision No.115.Pid.Sus / PN / Dmk August 10, 2016) ". Formulated as follows what factors cause people to commit criminal acts of sexual abuse? And what about the criminology review of the perpetrators of obscene criminal acts in the Demak District Court for the study of obscene decisions based on the decision of the Demak District Court No.115.Pid.Sus / 2016 / PN / Dmk 10 August 2016 ?. A type of sociological juridical study, the specifications of this study are analytical descriptive. Descriptive qualitative analysis data with the aim of describing the exact characteristics, state of symptoms of a particular individual or group can be concluded later stages. Based on the research results obtained: the conclusion of biological factors, psychological factors, sociocultural factors. Criminal psychology factors on the condition of the perpetrators can be seen from the way they do, sociocultural factors seen from the economic conditions, changes in the social status of rural communities to the city. Crimes related to criminal psychology, criminal biology, sociocultural: 46 year old convict R as a criminal biologist who committed crimes such as sexual abuse, convicted R male sex. Biologically criminal acts of sexual abuse committed by men rather than women, convict R has a normal mental state that psychologically has the ability to be responsible for the crimes committed.   Keywords: Criminology, Causes of Crimes, Crimes for obscenity.  

Lecturer certification is a process and forms of recognition of a faculty member associated with qualification, competenceand contribution that deserve to be called a professional lecturer. This study aims to empirically examine the effect ofcertification on faculty members in the perspective of performance measurement systems to psychological empowermentand mental model building and subsequent impact on the performance of the lecturer. The research model was built on thebasis of goal setting theory. We collected data using a mail survey on lecturers who have been certified in the province ofSouth Sulawesi, Indonesia. The selection of respondents was based on the consideration that the respondent hasexperienced the whole certification process and have benefited directly and carry out the legal consequences of thecertification. Data analysis was conducted using structural equation modeling. The results showed that the measurementsystem on lecturers certification have both positive and significant relationship to the dimensions of psychologicalempowerment and the mental models. Further more, mental models have positive and significant influence on theperformance of the lecturer. Similarly, the dimensions of psychological empowerment were positively related to managerialperformance, but only the dimension of meaning tha thave a significant effect. The research findings reveal importance ofbehavioral aspects in deciding lecturer certification systems during the certification process and the implementation.Further more, this paper contributes to the literature on lecturer certification, performance measurement systems, andmental models.Keywords: lecturer certification, performance measurement systems, mental model, and psychological empowerment,lecturers’ performance

The objective of this paper is to discourse critical paradigm to respond economic globalization, especially in higher education liberalization.  Higher Education liberalization is employed by World Trade Organization (WTO), firstly  is introduced concept of higher education corporatization. Corporatization is one of implementation strategy of New Public Management (NPM) in public sector.  This paper based on results of case study in one of Perguruan Tinggi Negeri Badan Layanan Umum (PTN BLU). PTN BLU is an example of NMP implementation. NPM is campaigned by International Institution such as World Bank (WB) and Internationally Monetary Fund (IMF). WB, IMF, and WTO use accounting as  a surveillance system. In  Habermas’s Critical Theory perspective,  higher education corporatization is lifeworld moneterization, with accounting as steering media. The effects of that are social pathologies, they are loss of meaning, anomie, and psychopathology. Loss of  meaning in higher education as a knowledge development institution, that dedicate to humanism has transform a corporate, that produce knowledge based economy (KBE) according to market demand.  Losses of academician identities, psychological disease are other examples of social pathologies. Keywords: Habermas, corporatization,  lifeworld, BLU, social pathology

Online trust is one of the main determinants of the success of e-retailers and much research has dealt with website features triggeringconsumer trust to them. Another stream of research focuses on thepsychological antecedents to online trust; i.e., what ‘‘happens’’ in theconsumer’s mind before or while a person decides to trust an e-retailer?So far, each effort has focused on only a few selected aspects of this trustformation process. Only few studies have attempted to identify majorpersonality based psychological antecedents of trust. This work identifiedthe relative importance of the personality based psychological antecedentsof trust in technology adoption and e-retailing. The model incorporatesthe personality traits (Extraversion, and Openness to experience), the mostwidely accepted framework for personality research in psychology, as wellas determinants of trust in our model.