虚假广告罪与诈骗罪之竞合问题浅探——以电视直销现象为切入

虚假广告罪和诈骗罪在行为方式上都有欺骗行为,只是欺骗的程度不同。当虚假广告罪中的欺骗或者说是宣传的虚假程度达到诈骗罪的欺诈程度时,便产生了虚假广告罪和诈骗罪的想象竞合。在这种情形下应当遵循想象竞合犯的处理原则,从一重罪处罚,认定为诈骗罪。     

侵犯商业秘密罪若干问题研究

1997年修订的《中华人民共和国刑法》专门增设了侵犯商业秘密罪,将商业秘密纳入到刑事法保护范畴。该罪在适用过程中遇到了很多问题和争议,也不符合TRIPS协议中有关规则。本文立足于我国现行刑法的规定,对商业秘密的概念、犯罪客体以及司法认定等相关问题予以探讨,以期为司法实践提供一些有益参考。     

保险诈骗罪特殊主体立法模式的缺陷及重构

保险犯罪日趋频繁和复杂,保险诈骗完全可能由投保人、被保险人和受益人以外的人或单位实施,现行刑法关于保险诈骗罪主体的规定范围过于狭窄,在理论和实践上均会产生一系列弊端。应摒弃特殊主体的立法模式,确立一般主体的立法模式。     

组织残疾人、儿童乞讨罪若干问题探讨

组织残疾人、儿童乞讨罪的客体是残疾人、儿童的人身权利和社会管理秩序;客观方面包括“暴力、胁迫”行为和组织行为,组织行为的对象和“暴力、胁迫”的对象具有同一性。采用暴力、胁迫方式进行组织的,以及在形成组织控制状态后的过程中对不愿乞讨的残疾人、儿童实施暴力、胁迫的,均构成犯罪,且无需把被组织者限定为3人以上。犯罪主体原则上应包括残疾人、儿童的父母或其他监护人在内。     

无意识犯罪动机的本质分析

无意识理论从不同角度分析无意识的来源,个体无意识、集体无意识与社会无意识区别性地体现于无意识犯罪动机的各个方面,同时,三者又相互结合、相互渗透,与意识到的犯罪动机共同形成系统的犯罪动机状态。以犯罪动机结构为基本模型,可以系统分析无意识犯罪动机在青少年犯罪、过失犯罪、情绪型犯罪、变态型犯罪、群体犯罪与游戏型犯罪等类型犯罪行为动机中的表征,它们与意识状态的犯罪动机共同构成犯罪行为的动机力量。无意识犯罪动机对于在刑事司法实践的应用中深度地揭露犯罪,对于罪犯的心理动力矫正、犯罪性人格与行为改造,均具有独特而重要的价值。     

贪污罪理论研究六十年

建国60年来,刑法学界关于贪污罪的研究成果颇为丰硕。从研究历程上看,贪污罪的研究可以划分为三个阶段,即从建国初期到1979年刑法典的颁布,从1979年刑法典的颁布到1997年刑法典的系统修订,自1997年刑法典系统修订并颁布实施至今。贪污罪理论研究的内容主要涉及以下几个方面：贪污罪的概念界定,贪污罪的构成要件,贪污罪的共犯形态,贪污罪的停止形态,贪污罪的定罪量刑,贪污罪的立法完善等。贪污罪的理论研究对依法惩治贪污犯罪、促进贪污罪的立法完善具有极其重要的意义。     

Measuring the impact of law enforcement on organized crime

This article explores the possibility of measuring the impact of law enforcement on organized crime in a reliable and accountable manner, both in general terms and with a practical focus on the Canadian context. In considering measures to combat organized crime, a focus on process measurement has obscured the more substantial question of progress as regards the dependent variable itself: the bottom line of reducing the impact of organized criminal behaviour. While outcome measures are more challenging to identify than process measures, this fact alone does not minimize the need to demonstrate the connection between organized crime enforcement and its presumed outcomes to a greater degree of certainty. To date, this has not been realized to any significant degree, as revealed by a review of existing international approaches to measuring the impact of enforcement activity. The article argues that a multidisciplinary focus on community level indicators of crime, if initially less accessible than process measures of impact on organized crime groups, offers promise as a measurement of absolute and relative impact of state investment in enforcement.

Interviewing serious offenders: Ms. Egghead meets Mr. Gumshoe

Organised crime, due to its intricate nature, is a very challenging as well as less accessible research field. Although difficult to conduct a methodical research on this topic, organised crime, nevertheless, offers a unique opportunity to utilise an interdisciplinary research methodology. This paper describes (multiple) triangulation as an appropriate method for researching the role of culture in the advancement of ethnic Albanian organised crime groups in Europe. Triangulation, for the purpose of the described project, has been used to obtain confirmation of findings through convergence of different perspectives. Interviewing offenders is one of the research methods more thoroughly explained in this paper. The paper too explores some advantages of snowball technique used for interviewing less accessible research subjects. It also discusses various dilemmas, security-related or not, researchers are faced with when intending to interview serious offenders.

The ‘Perils’ of an Identity Politics Approach to the Legal Recognition of Harm

In the past, and it still remains the case, people with learning difficulties who are victims of violence have been cast as being in need of protection rather than rights and justice. Such an approach belies an institutionalised perspective of harm that does not readily engage with criminal justice structures or solutions. At the same time, Sect. 146 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 gives the court the power to pass enhanced sentences where it can be proven that a crime was motivated by hostility towards someone because s/he is disabled. However, this provision may simply remain a symbolic pledge to equality that fails to tackle the complex and deep rooted causes of violence and oppression in modern society. The consequences of automatically turning to hate crime ‘solutions’ have yet to be explored. This article will draw from the ideas of a number of thinkers in the context of diverse activism to construct a bridge between current debates about how to theorise and tackle violence and oppression in the modern world and the campaigns fought by people with learning difficulties and their supporters. The hope is that this exercise will not only help people with learning difficulties to access the current debate but will further develop current thinking about how to understand and tackle violence in the modern world.

Organized Crime in Asia: A Review of Problems and Progress

This paper provides a preliminary overview of research on organized crime in Asia drawing on selected papers from a symposium held at the National University of Singapore in June 2007. We draw on these contributions to emphasize the enterprise nature of organized crime and the common problems encountered by law enforcement in controlling and preventing the many harms inflicted by serious criminal activity. Recent attempts to address the changing character and forms of transnational organized crime, especially through the strengthening of mutual legal assistance by regional bodies such as ASEAN, are noted. These measures have yet to develop into the cross-border institutional frameworks now found in Europe, and the level of effective co-operation can only continue to improve. Countering organized crime in Asia also faces additional difficulties arising from the cultural diversity, relative weakness of law enforcement in some states and the lack of common strategies in respect to illicit markets.