LISTEN TO ME! EMPOWERING YOUTH AND COURTS THROUGH INCREASED YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN DEPENDENCY HEARINGS

Currently, there are more than half a million youth in foster care. Often, these youth are unaware of when, or if, legal hearings about their lives are taking place. This Note advocates for states to pass laws ensuring that youth receive notice of their hearings and for courts to conduct review hearings when youth are not present. Through the course of this Note, the benefits of youth participation are outlined, as are the reasons most often given for denying youth the opportunity to meaningfully participate. The Note concludes with suggestions to help courts more effectively engage youth and the benefits of doing so.     

The Cohort-Size Sample-Size Conundrum: An Empirical Analysis and Assessment Using Homicide Arrest Data from 1960 to 1999

A number of studies use the Age-Period-Cohort Characteristic (APCC) model to address the impact of cohort related factors on the age distribution of homicide offending. Several of these studies treat birth cohorts as spanning several years, an operationalization that most closely matches tenets of cohort theory, yet sharply reduces the number of observations available for analysis. Other studies define birth cohorts as those born within a single year, an operationalization that is theoretically problematic, but provides many more observations for analysis. We address the sample size problem by applying a time-series-cross-section model (panel model) with age-period-specific homicide arrest data from the United States for each year from 1960 to 1999, while operationalizing cohorts as five-year birth cohorts. Our panel model produces results that are very similar to those obtained from traditional multiyear APCC models. Substantively, the results provide a replication of work showing the importance of relative cohort size and cohort variations in family structure for explaining variations in age-period-specific homicide rates. The additional observations provided by our approach allow us to examine these relationships over time, and we find substantively important changes. The year-by-year estimates of the age distribution of homicide offending help us to examine the model during the epidemic of youth homicide.     

改革开放以来农村青年研究的回顾与思考

综观改革开放以来的农村青年研究可以发现,研究者们已经对农村青年的相关问题进行了大量的探讨,提出了许多符合客观现实而严谨有据的结论,以及切实可行的对策建议。这为分析和把握农村青年的生存发展状况和现实问题奠定了良好的基础,对以后农村青年研究以及青年研究都将起到十分积极和重要的作用。当然,农村青年研究在理论和方法等方面还有值得讨论之处,研究领域还可以进一步拓展,研究者和研究机构之间的合作还可以进一步加强。     

论青少年犯罪的客观因素及预防

青少年违法犯罪问题,是当今社会一个十分重大的问题。青少年犯罪的主要原因是客观因素的影响,主要包括家庭教育、学校教育、社会环境几个方面。分析青少年犯罪的客观原因,探讨预防的对策,对维护社会稳定和国家长治久安,对推进社会主义和谐社会建设,都具有重要意义。     

价值观念的缺损与修补--剖析环境犯罪的伦理视角

环境犯罪这一特殊性犯罪现象其成因复杂.人的价值观念、环境意识、环境道德责任及其环境法制观念的缺损是导致环境犯罪的重要原因,而价值观念的调整则是预防环境犯罪的重要机制.     

"3加1行动":青少年生命教育多元整合教育(服务)模式构想——学校社会工作视角

在青少年生命教育被全社会积极关注、努力探索与联合推进的背景下,“3加1行动”模式构想为实际工作者提供了可操作性的依据。该模式以生态系统理论和社会支持网络理论为理论支持,体现了尊重生命、全人发展、社会关怀的价值理念。     

从道德的功利性看"道德冷漠"的矫治

“道德冷漠”已成为当前道德生活中的一大顽症,生活大舞台上,一幕幕见危不救的道德悲剧屡见不鲜,究其原因,对道德功利性——这一道德本质属性的忽视是最根本的原因所在。因此,要矫治“道德冷漠”,就必须正视道德的功利性,肯定个人对正当私利的追求,将道德由“天国”降到“人间”,由“贵族”变为“平民”。道德赏罚正是立足于道德功利性的一味矫治道德冷漠的良方。     

全国团校系统后勤社会化改革势在必行

全国团校系统的后勤社会化与其他高校相比有同有异。团校系统应建立在服务和服从于后勤改革的目标和宗旨上,采取托管、联合等多种形式,加快后勤系统与团校行政管理体系的规范剥离,解决好后勤行业特性与教育特性等多种关系,真正建立起团校后勤系统的服务实体,这将是新型的团校后勤保障体系的主要组成形式。     

现代儒商的价值承当

市场经济呼唤市场行为主体的人文道德关怀 ,呼唤一种现代意义上的儒商精神。然而 ,现代儒商应有怎样的价值承当 ?学术界对此却存在一定程度的模糊认识。在传统儒商和新教伦理中 ,经济和道德的关系是一种外在结合的关系 ,这种外在结合性既不利于经济的发展也不利于道德的发展。现代儒商的价值承当应该而且必然是一种经济和道德内在结合的价值承当。在这种价值承当中 ,经济与道德是一种互为目的与手段的关系     

关于太原"城中村"青年生活方式的初步研究

目前太原“城中村”的基本情况是城乡混治、结构性失业、建房出租活跃 ,“城中村”青年群体的物质文明与精神文明存在巨大反差。转化青年思想观念 ,引导青年奋发向上 ,对于农民变市民、农村变社区 ,提升太原城市居民素质及推动太原经济发展具有深远意义。