Identification of serial homicide victims in the "Green River Murder" investigation

The Green River Murder Investigation in King County, Washington, is currently the longest and most active serial murder investigation in U.S. history. To date, little information has been reported on methods used in identification of serial murder victims. In this paper, various methods used in victim identification are reviewed and difficulties encountered during the course of the investigation are described. The experience of the authors is presented in order to acquaint other agencies with problems of victim identification associated with these serial murder victims and to provide key methods that may be useful in other such investigations.     

论地方立法的"绿色评估"

地方立法"绿色评估"是将可持续发展理论纳入立法程序,从经济、社会、环境三个层面设置具体可行的指标体系,对各个领域的立法是否符合可持续发展的需求进行审查、评估,最终得以保障地方立法实现可持续发展战略的各项需求,使促进可持续发展在立法中充分予以体现。通过对地方立法"绿色评估"的产生根源、主要框架、内容及未来的发展方向的分析,在立法程序中注入可持续发展理念,最终实现发展与生态环境保护的双赢。     

Use of facial approximation techniques in identification of Green River serial murder victims

Since 1982, the remains of 41 victims of the Green River Serial Murderer have been recovered. The majority were discovered as skeletal remains, and 24 facial approximations have been used in attempts to develop leads for identification of nine of these victims. Nine different artists were used. Interpretations of the same victim varied greatly. For those victims subsequently identified, resemblance of the facial approximation to the deceased showed considerable variation, but in some cases was quite accurate. This experience created a unique opportunity to compare different methods of facial approximation techniques and artists, and to comment on their efficacy in aiding identification.     

实时RT-PCR检测大鼠死后管家基因mRNA的时序性降解

目的研究实时荧光定量RT—PCR方法检测死亡大鼠管家基因mRNA时序性降解的可行性,为死亡时间（Dostmortem interval,PMI）推断寻找新的研究手段。方法应用SYBR Green Ⅰ实时荧光定量RT—PCR技术．检测死后不同时间大鼠脑和脾中管家基因GAPDHmRNA及β—actinmRNA的水平,结果用循环阈值（简称Ct值）表示,分析死后经过时间与Ct值的线性关系,并建立死亡时间推断回归方程。结果GAPDH mRNA和β—actinmRNA的Ct值均与PMI之间存在显著的相关性。结论SYBR GreenⅠ实时荧光定量RT—PCR在定量分析mRNA降解的研究中是一个较理想的技术手段。选用管家基因作为PMI推断的研究对象,可在法医检案中消除其他基因因为个体差异带来的误差,更具实用性。Ct值作为动态监测机体死后不同时间点的客观指标．与死后不同时间点的线性关系良好,推断死后经过时间尤其是晚期死亡时间较为理想。     

Part on Green and Low-Carbon Development of China's Environmental Code System Response and Institution Implementation in Sustainable Development

The sustainable development integrity, national development goals, and legislative status quo have determined that the Green and Low-Carbon Development Part must be designed and incorporated into the China's Environmental Code (Code). The theoretical evolution in the action field, system composition, value function, and operation mechanism of the Environmental Law, as well as the practice development of the Environmental Protection Law legislation, enforcement, and judicial practices have laid a solid theoretical and practical foundation for the incorporation of green and lowcarbon development into the Code. The institutional layout of green and low-carbon development should respect and highlight its own traits. Furthermore, it is important to stress communication and coordination with other parts of the Code, follow the laws of energy development and utilization, and satisfy the inherent requirements of raw material reduction, reuse, and recycle. The layout method should abide by the general principle of general first, specific second; domestic first, international second; defined first, undefined second with decomposition goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality as an exception. The layout effect of the flexibility first, rigidity second is pursued. The chapters of General Provisions, Cleaner Production Green Circulation, Green Consumption, Support and Supervision, and International Cooperation, and Climate Change Response, are specifically designed. Efforts are made to improve new systems, such as strategies and standards for green and low-carbon development, green logistics, energy performance contracting, green finance, carbon emissions trading, and energy early warning.     

大图们江区域各国法律的冲突与协调

大图们江地区各国国情差别较大,法律传统与法律背景不一,各国的法律观念存在很大的分歧,其法律体系也存在明显的差别。在区域合作中,政治上的分歧,观念上的相左,权利上的纠纷,是合作松散无法紧密的根本,而这些因素又具有深刻的历史文化根源,很难被“经济上的获利”消解。同时,这些因素又往往体现在法律当中,寻找解决的途径也只能依靠法律的思维。通过对大图们江地区各国法律及其背后的文化解析,认清各国的法律冲突,进而运用国际私法的理论,寻找解决冲突的途径,是促进大图们江区域合作的现实选择。     

身份犯及其相关概念辨析

身份犯是指刑法规定的以行为人所具有的特定身份作为犯罪构成要件或量刑情节的犯罪。身份犯不同于亲手犯和不作为犯,身份犯是以犯罪主体是否具有特定身份为标准对犯罪进行分类的结果,亲手犯是根据实行行为是否可以和主体相分离而对犯罪所作的一种分类,不作为犯则是以实行行为的表现形式为标准划分的一类犯罪,三者既有区别,又有联系。     

Book Reviews

W.Burhenne, International Environmental Law: Multilateral Treaties
Peter Wetterstein, Harm to the Environment: The Right to Compensation and the Assessment of Damages
Jonas Ebbesson, Review of Compatability of International and National Environmental Law
Simon C. S. Tay and Daniel C. Esty, Asian Dragons and Green Trade: Environment, Economics and International Law
Jan M. van Dunne, Non-Point Source River Pollution – The Case of the River Meuse: Technical, Legal, Economics and International Law
Bridget M. Hutter, Compliance: Regulation and Environment
Amanda Wolf, Quotas in International Environmental Agreements
Michel Prieur, Le droit à l'information en matière d'environment dans les pays de l'Union Européenne
Michael Fry (ed.), A Manual of Nature Conservation Law and A Manual of Environmental Protection Law     

与食品安全相关的绿色壁垒法律问题研究

国际贸易和食品安全是相互影响和相互制约的关系,绿色壁垒形成的根本原因在于一些国家为了保护本国经济利益,限制外国产品进入本国市场,确保本国产品在国内市场的占有份额。它具有形式上的合法性、实施上的歧视性等特征。WTO对＂绿色壁垒＂问题进行了相关法律规制,但是也存在很多问题;针对绿色壁垒对我国食品进出口的影响,我国应当从善用WTO规则、完善国内法律法规、大力发展绿色产品出口以及加强自主产权转基因食品的研究等方面予以积极应对。     

试析南京国民政府在苏北的“导淮”

黄河夺淮改变了苏北水系及地理面貌,淮河、沂沭河衍变为灾河,苏北由此成为“十年九灾”之地,民国时期南京国民政府地苏北淮河及支流实施较为科学的治导,使淮河得到了初步治理,一度减轻了淮河灾害,但日本侵化战争的发生、南京国民政府政策上的偏差及诸社会因素决定了淮河千年灾害在当时不可能被根治。     

港、澳、珠三角地区的区际法律冲突及其协调

港、澳、珠江三角洲地区之间的区际法律冲突,是指19世纪40年代以后,在我国因为三地之间各自法律规定的不同,从而产生法律适用上的冲突。这种区际法律冲突具有与目前国际社会的国际法律冲突,和其他国家的区际法律冲突,以及我国国内的其他法律冲突,都不尽相同的特点。“一国两制”原则和有利于社会政治经济发展原则是协调港、澳、珠江三角洲地区区际法律冲突时必须遵循的基本原则。而由各法域协商制定统一的区际冲突法典来进行协调,应该是目前我国协调解决港、澳、珠三角地区区际法律冲突的较切实可行、同时也是行之有效的途径。     

Legal and Extralegal Barriers to Delinquency

Recent research on deterrence has begun to couch discussions of legal sanctions in the context of broader perspectives that take account of other factors that may inhibit law violation. Such an approach can answer significant questions about the importance of legal sanctions relative to other variables. In this research, a three-variable inhibitory model suggested by Grasmick and Green (1980) was tested using panel data from a large sample of adolescents. Internalized normative constraint was found to be the strongest predictor of subsequent delinquency. However, perceptions of the risk of both formal and informal sanctions add significantly to the model's explanatory power. Interaction effects were noted that suggest sanction threats may have a compensatory effect where internal constraints are weak.     

Infanticide, physicians, and the law: the "Baby Doe" amendments to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act

Infanticide, like most other species of homicide, is probably coeval with the human race itself. In modern Western civilization, what were formerly the most powerful incentives to infanticide have virtually disappeared. As with other social problems that affluence has seemed to solve, however, infanticide has reappeared in a new form that seems to have been made possible by affluence itself. This "new infanticide" occurs in a place whose very existence is the result of a tremendously wealthy society's devotion to its most vulnerable and least "useful" members. The modern neonatal intensive care unit, which treats, and often saves, extremely ill newborn children, who during most of history would surely have died, has proven to be a setting where many of the age-old incentives for infanticide have begun to operate again. The "new infanticide" consists of withholding food or needed medical treatment from selected infants who suffer from one or more serious, though treatable, medical problems. The national government has now enacted legislation designed to curtail the practice of infanticide by the medical profession. This paper traces the genesis of that legislation, explores the problem to which it is addressed, and evaluates its prospects for success.     

中国传统契约中的“契约自由”与“主体平等”——以清水江文书为视角

中国法律传统虽以"公法"为主要特征,强调以身份关系为纽带的"公权力",但在"私法"领域,却并非不重视以自由和平等为基础的"私权利"。在中国传统契约与清水江文书中,均普遍存有关于"契约自由"与"主体平等"这样一种"契约型社会"的私法观念。在契约自由方面,主要通过"二主和同"、"两和立契"等契约语言来体现契约是双方协商一致,达成合意的结果;在主体平等方面,则通过"两共平章"、"平中立约"等用语来表明立约双方具有平等的人格与主体地位。而这样一种注重合意、平等立约的私法观念,以及尊重契约、敬畏契约,通过契约保护自身合法权利的精神,是当今我国法治化建设过程中重要的本土资源与宝贵财富。在提倡尊重契约精神、保护私权利等法治观念的今天,亦能够为我国法治的现代化进程提供历史的和本土的基因。     

试析当代西方绿色政治理论的形成与影响

当代西方社会政治运动中出现了一种新兴思想流派——绿色政治理论。它随着环保运动的深入发展和绿党在西方政坛的崛起，对西方社会产生了越来越广泛的影响。它是在科学技术高度发展、地球生态环境急剧恶化、资本主义社会危机日益严重和世界和平运动深入开展的形势下产生的。这一理论对人类传统的价值理念、西方社会政治生活和政坛产生了巨大的冲击，对我国社会主义现代化建设也具有重要的借鉴意义     

从“庭审必备”转向“庭审后备”——民事预判决制度之提出

我国民事诉讼法理论与实定法上存在着"庭审必备"的误解,即认为只有开庭审理才是法院审理,只有开庭后作出的判决才堪称正当。"庭审必备"的刚性规则是源于庭审范畴的不当扩张,这既淡化了庭审对抗辩论的实质功能,也使大部分的开庭空有形式。我国的判决程序应从以庭审为必要,转变为必要时庭审,对于简单案件采取预判决的机制:法官直接根据起诉与答辩作出预判决,如果当事人对预判决的实体结果没有实质异议,则预判决发生效力;如果法院认为当事人的异议使案件有庭审的必要,则进一步组织开庭审理。为保障当事人不受诉讼突袭,预判决之前双方当事人有发表意见的机会,但要求一次、及时提出;当事人有通过提出异议而请求庭审的权利,但不诚信的异议将受到惩罚。     

公共政策制定的理论研究中的“村民”与“农民”概念辨析

构建和谐社会,落实科学发展观,离不开对“三农”问题的研究。长期以来,在关于“三农”问题与村民自治的公共政策制定和理论研究中,由于对“农民”与“村民”概念的片面理解和不规范使用,产生了严重的负面影响,对其规范使用已是势在必行。农民与村民本是两个外延不同,内涵既有同质性,但又有异质性的概念,二者不可相互替代。对其规范使用,有利于在公共政策制定和“三农”问题的理论研究上发挥正确导向和规范作用。     

城市化“村改居”中农村集体资产改制的困境与出路——结合广东珠三角的实践

农村集体资产改制是城市化“村改居”进程中的难题与“瓶颈”，是“村改居”转制工作的重点。本文结合广东珠三角相关实践剖析其中的突出问题，并提出相应的对策。     

The difference between drug money and a "lifetime's savings"

In many countries, monies suspected of being associated with drug trafficking can be seized by the authorities. One of the ways of investigating this association is through the analysis of seized banknotes for traces of controlled drugs. We report three studies which may assist the expert in assessing whether banknotes contaminated with diamorphine are part of the general population of notes in circulation or whether they show unusual contamination patterns which require explanation. Study 1 is based on three plausible contamination scenarios as they may occur during the various stages of an illicit drug transaction and seizure. It shows that notes which have been in direct contact with visible traces of diamorphine show significantly higher contamination to those in more indirect contact with the drug. Study 2 investigates the transfer of diamorphine from one highly contaminated note to other notes in a bundle over a period of 10 weeks with and without agitation. It was found that the total amount of drug transferred was smaller than 6% and no more than 4 out of a bundle of 10 previously clean notes became lightly contaminated. Based on extensive background data, study 3 proposes a probabilistic model to assess whether an observed proportion of diamorphine bearing banknotes is likely to have been contaminated by chance. The model predicts that there is only a 0.3% chance that a bundle of 100 notes from the general banknote population contains more than six contaminated specimens. Jointly, the three studies give useful indications for the spread of contamination throughout a sample and the amounts of heroin which may be expected given plausible contamination scenarios.     

超越“传统与现代”：法律多线现代化

相关研究或明或暗地将“传统与现代”作为民间法与国家法的重要区别。然而,民间法与国家法都是各自以一种进化的方式发展起来的,都有自己的历史和现实,并都在内外因素作用下不断变迁以适应现代社会,都有自己的经验、理性和正义观,都满足一定的社会需要,都有传统性和自己的现代性,都有自身的现代化进程。而且,国家法与民间法从来都是相互影响并由此在一定程度上相互转化和承认,“你中有我,”“我中有你,”交错混杂。将国家法和民间法作现代与传统的区分缺乏事实和理论依据。在法律多元的社会中,法律现代化是民间法与国家法各自在内外因素作用下的多线现代化。我们应当引导民间法的现代化,确保民间法现代化与国家法现代化的协调,确保正义的弘扬和社会的和谐。