Assessment and Treatment

Assessment of all who are referred to court jurisdiction, and treatment for all who are identified to be seriously involved with substance abuse, are essential components for courts when addressing the substance abuse issue. Each court must have access to a complete range of services for effective screening, identification, assessment, evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation. Such services may be developed within the court operation or in cooperation with related agencies or through contracted service providers. Many jurisdictions will use a combination of these basic approaches for provision of services. However they are organized, the key is that they must be in place and consistently used.     

Inmate Attitudes Toward Treatment: Mental Health Service Utilization and Treatment Effects

This study examined inmate attitudes toward treatment, mental health treatment utilization, and treatment effects that maximize treatment effectiveness. Participants consisted of 278 incarcerated male adult offenders from the Kansas Department of Corrections. Multiple linear regression analysis indicated that inmate attitudes toward treatment were predictive of the number of mental health treatment sessions (dosage) inmates received. Hierarchical linear regression analyses indicated positive help-seeking attitudes were associated with institutional behavior (decreased number and severity of disciplinary infractions) and scores on a measure assessing risk for future criminal behavior; however, the amount of mental health treatment an inmate received (treatment dosage) was associated with problematic institutional behavior (i.e., increased severity and number of disciplinary infractions). These results indicated that treatment dosage and behavioral outcomes were impacted by inmate attitudes toward treatment. As a result, correctional psychologists may be better able to predict which inmates will receive the most benefit from services. Implications of these findings for practitioners and policy makers are discussed.     

WTO与国民待遇

本文阐述了WTO与国民待遇的关系 ,并着重论述应尽快依法保护民营企业发展 ,增强我国经济竞争力 ,以迎接入世后的外贸挑战。     

论合理的差别待遇--宪法平等权的一个课题

法律面前人人平等,并非禁止一切的差别待遇,合理的差别待遇是符合宪法平等权的.通过对西方法治国家对差别待遇司法审查的经验的借鉴,可以归纳出合理的差别待遇的标准:在涉及社会经济权利的差别待遇案件中,只要手段与目的合理相关即可--合理基础标准;差别待遇严重干扰公民的宪法政治权利的行使时,则要求手段是必需的,目的是紧迫的--严格审查标准;当差别待遇涉及性别和身份等分类时,除涉及政治权利外,则要求手段与目的之间具有实质的关联性--中等程度审查标准.     

Equal Application or Unequal Treatment

Abstract

Florida's community control program (CC) developed as a punitive alternative to prison. Characterized by intensive supervision and home confinement, the language and the guidelines assume gender equality, however, the model ignores the family responsibilities of controllees. Because women are more likely than men to be primary caregivers for their families, the issue has gender implications at the policy level. This study examines the background of CC legislation in relation to gender, and presents a case example of how the language of community control is applied at the local level. From interviews and observations, the authors show how officers and female controllees in a county program describe the tensions between caregiving and policy restrictions in their daily lives. They argue that caregiver status should be addressed at the policy level, and advocate the formation of “social families” as a way to help controllees meet CC requirements while caring for families.     

防御性医疗的法律思考

近年来,医疗纠纷诉讼呈现快速增多趋势,医患矛盾不断加深,加上一般医务人员对有关法律知识比较欠缺,于是在临床实践中,越来越多的医护人员热衷于采取防御性医疗.而盲目采取防御性医疗也会造成对患者的侵权.本文从阐述防御性医疗的基本概念、特征、以及其所可能产生的不良后果入手,探讨了该类医疗行为的产生原因以及预防对策.最后结合医疗纠纷技术鉴定中对此类医疗行为的评价谈了自己的观点.     

Treatment refusal among forensic inpatients

Although the United States Supreme Court has not offered a definite opinion, some states have established the qualified right of involuntarily committed patients to refuse treatment. Controversy continues between psychiatry and law over what procedural protections should be provided to patients when therapists seek to override nonemergency refusal of treatment. The authors review Oregon's administrative approach and its application to the treatment refusal of 33 state hospital forensic patients. Patient characteristics, refusal patterns, and implications of treatment refusal are also described.     

超国民待遇研究

<正> 所谓超国民待遇,也称优惠待遇,作为国际投资法上的概念,具有特定的法律意义,即指一国对外国的自然人、法人或其他经济组织给予优于本国的自然人、法人或其他经济组织的待遇。其表现形式是投资鼓励措施及其效果的存在。从广义上讲,投资鼓励措施是政府通过影响投资的相对成本或盈利潜能或通过变换投资风险来影响投资规模、区位或行业的措施。中国已经加入WTO,长期以来为吸引外资而采取的超国民待遇措施是否     

Treatment of sex offenders with Depo-Provera

Medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) is capable of reducing male testosterone blood levels with a corresponding reduction in sexual interest and activity. An attempt to evaluate its effectiveness with court committed sexual offenders was made with eight subjects each serving as his own control by alternating Depo-Provera injections for 16 weeks with saline injections for a corresponding 16 weeks. This paper reports the results of this study and the conclusions that appear to be appropriate.     

罪犯的宗教信仰处遇论略

宗教信仰权利是现代法治国家必须保障的公民权 ,而罪犯的宗教信仰权利保障有无最易凸现出社会的法治或人治的特征 ,罪犯处遇制度移植引进宗教教诲成为依法治监的时代要求。