REEVALUATING WHERE WE STAND: A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF AMERICA'S FAMILY JUSTICE SYSTEMS

The call for court reform remains critical in the face of the growing complexity of burgeoning family law cases nationwide. Many states have restructured their court systems using the unified family court model, resolving legal, personal, emotional, and social disputes with the aim of improving the well‐being of families and children. Other states utilize the traditional approach, resulting in cases being handled in a fragmented, time‐consuming and expensive manner. In this article, Professor Barbara A. Babb presents the results of her nationwide survey regarding how each state handles family law matters. The survey is a follow‐up to her comprehensive 1998 survey and her 2002 survey update. The results of the recent analysis reveal that a total of thirty‐eight states now have either statewide family courts, family courts in selected areas of the state, or pilot or planned family courts, representing seventy‐five percent of states. The number of states without a specialized or separate system to handle family law matters has decreased from seventeen states in 1998 to thirteen in 2006. These changes are significant when one considers the complexities involved in court reform. The need for court reform remains an urgent one, as family law cases occupy a significant percentage of court dockets across the country. Families and children deserve a court system where justice is effective and efficient and where their legal, personal, emotional, and social needs are resolved in a therapeutic and holistic manner.     

Decision‐making during international crises: A reexamination

The purpose of this research note is to reexamine the methods and codings of crisis decision‐making processes performed by Herek, Janis, and Huth in 1987, and thereby to discuss the role of the case survey method as a means to build theory in the study of foreign policy. The research reported here uses a somewhat different measure of decision‐making process quality and a slightly expanded list of data sources than were used by Herek and his colleagues. It reevaluates a subset of the cases explored in the previous study. This research note largely confirms the analysis of crisis decision‐making processes presented in the previous study, though it notes and discusses some discrepancies. Furthermore, this reexamination seeks to contribute to our understanding of crisis decision‐making processes by using a different conceptualization of decision‐making process quality and thus a different coding procedure.     

山西省柳林县城区交通的调研报告

随着我国经济的快速发展和城镇化进程的加快,很多县市都出现了城镇人口日渐增长,机动车保有量逐年增加,而城区道路发展缓慢,人、车、路的矛盾日益突出的问题。微观治理对策主要是:减少交叉路口,提高通行速度和能力;科学规划,增加或者减少红绿灯交通信号控制;将部分支路由双向通行调整为单向通行,或者禁止左转。     

犯罪心理测试后即转入讯问的意义及策略方法

犯罪心理测试工作不能只满足于出具测试结果,测试人员必须结合测试过程和测试结果与侦查人员共同研究测后讯问、测后调查的方向、内容、方法等问题,最大程度地发挥测试的作用,找到把测试结果转化成合法证据的途径。因此,研究测后讯问的意义,测试转入讯问的突破口以及测后讯问的方法技巧等策略问题是当前犯罪心理测试工作需要探索的重要课题。     

浅议统计在企业经营管理中的应用

本文通过对企业经济统计现状的存在问题的分析和企业统计在实际中的应用举例 ,提出了统计改革的必要性 ,然后 ,从三个不同的方面 ,特别是从人的主观能动性方面阐述了怎样才使统计在企业经营管理中得到充分和有效地应用。     

聋哑人犯罪预防

作者通过对一段时间内办理的聋哑人犯罪案件进行理性思考,从中发现聋哑人犯罪的特点、聋哑人犯罪的新趋势,对如何打击和预防聋哑人犯罪提出了自己的观点。     

关注城市外来劳务工的问题--来自深圳外来劳务工发展状况的调查报告

外来劳务工是深圳市城市建设的主体,但是由于政策上的歧视和法律保护机制不完善等因素,他们面临着工作时间长、心理压力大、收入低、工作不稳定等问题,建议政府和社会积极关注这一群体,加强劳动力市场宏观调控和管理,创造良好的劳动就业环境,从政策、法律和经济等多方面扶助他们,努力解决他们工作和生活中的实际问题。     

财产刑执行情况的调查报告

各地法院财产刑的执行中存在财产刑判处和执行的随意性较大,财产刑执结率低、执行手段单一且缺乏规范性和统一性等问题,而导致这些问题的原因主要在于财产刑执行缺乏明确的法律规定,判罚标准不尽合理以及公安司法机关配合不力。对此,调查报告有针对性地提出设置财产刑诉辩程序以及完善财产刑执行的立法机制等对策,并提出了财产刑执行在现有体制下的工作思路。调查报告还对未成年被告人适用财产刑的问题给予了关注,考虑到未成年被告人作为犯罪主体的特殊性,建议对其有限制地适用财产刑。     

Calling Attention to the Importance of Assisting Male Survivors of Sexual Victimization

ABSTRACT

Most of the research focusing on sexual victimization on college campuses has focused on females as victims. This attention is warranted given that studies have consistently found that females are at more risk of experiencing victimization compared to males. However, a drawback of this emphasis is that laypersons may incorrectly believe that men cannot be victims too. This belief is directly challenged by various findings that indicate college men are also sexually assaulted. In order to draw attention to this under researched topic, we used data from a recent climate survey conducted at a mid-sized rural institution of higher education. The results of this study indicated that males, in addition to females, experienced various types of sexual victimization in this setting.     

Explaining Explanations: How Legislators Explain their Policy Positions and How Citizens React

Legislators claim that how they explain their votes matters as much as or more than the roll calls themselves. However, few studies have systematically examined legislators’ explanations and citizen attitudes in response to these explanations. We theorize that legislators strategically tailor explanations to constituents in order to compensate for policy choices that are incongruent with constituent preferences, and to reinforce policy choices that are congruent. We conduct a within‐subjects field experiment using U.S. senators as subjects to test this hypothesis. We then conduct a between‐subjects survey experiment of ordinary people to see how they react to the explanatory strategies used by senators in the field experiment. We find that most senators tailor their explanations to their audiences, and that these tailored explanations are effective at currying support—especially among people who disagree with the legislators’ roll‐call positions.