诉讼价值对证明标准构建的影响

诉讼价值不光包含着人类价值选择的过程,而且制约着证明标准的构建。通过从公正和效率两大价值入手,探究诉讼价值与证明标准之间的关系。     

从外部遏制力量缺陷看警察刑讯逼供的生成

作者从法律规范、检察院、法院、犯罪嫌疑人、辩护律师、社会舆论等方面探究了刑讯逼供外部遏制力量的缺陷,进而以刑事诉讼构造、刑事诉讼目的、国民性格等角度深入挖掘了形成这些缺陷的根源。     

《刑事诉讼法》语言不规范问题探析

本文结合若干具体条文从语法、逻辑、词汇三个方面详细探讨了现行《刑事诉讼法》中存在的语言不规范问题,并指出了优化立法语言的重要意义。     

结合Sheppard v.Maxwe11案谈我国媒体与司法和谐关系的构建

本文通过对Sheppard v．Maxwell案具体案情利审理的分析，介绍了美国解决媒体与司法冲突的理念和对策，并从立法机关、新闻媒体、司法机关三方面对我国媒体与司法和谐关系的构建提出了具体的建议。     

目前毒品犯罪案件侦查工作所面临的新挑战

云南禁毒工作面临境外新型毒品生产和对我国渗透逐年加剧,外来人员来滇贩毒活动猖獗,新型毒品消费市场扩大的严峻形势.目前毒品犯罪案件侦查工作面临的新挑战有:缉毒情报工作面临信息化时代犯罪活动的挑战,传统侦查手段面临犯罪手段快速发展带来的挑战,现行的法律法规面临新问题的挑战,侦查队伍的素质面临日益复杂的犯罪活动的挑战,现行侦查工作机制面临犯罪活动一体化的挑战.     

STR data for the 13 CODIS loci in Singapore Malays

Allele frequencies for the 13 CODIS (Combined DNA Index System, USA) STR loci included in the AmpFISTR Profiler Plus and AmpFISTR Cofiler kits (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, USA) were determined in a sample of 197 unrelated Malays in Singapore.     

‘Were women present at the demographic transition?’ A question revisited

In this contribution I argue that the future of historical demography has much to gain from the incorporation of women and gender into research on the (first) fertility decline in the Western world. Gender, as an explanatory concept, can help construct more complex models for fertility decline in which economic, social and cultural explanations can be connected and which are more sensitive to diversity, to historical context, and to contingency. By perceiving men and women as gendered identities who may have different interests in reproductive outcomes, we will not only restore the necessary agency to historical actors, but we will also see more clearly how many important questions on the fertility decline still remain unanswered.     

Discrimination of Soils at Regional and Local Levels Using Bacterial and Fungal T‐RFLP Profiling*

Abstract: DNA profiling of microbial communities has been proposed as a tool for forensic comparison of soils, but its potential to discriminate between soils from similar land use and/or geographic location has been largely unexplored. We tested the ability of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T‐RFLP) to discriminate between soils from 10 sites within the Greater Wellington region, New Zealand, based on their bacterial and fungal DNA profiles. Significant differences in bacterial and fungal communities between soils collected from all but one pair of sites were demonstrated. In some instances, specific terminal restriction fragments were associated with particular sites. Patch discrimination was evident within several sites, which could prove useful for site‐specific matching (e.g., matching shoe/car tire print to an object). These results support the need for further understanding of the spatial distribution of soil microbial communities before DNA profiling of soil microbial communities can be applied to the forensic context.     

The Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy

State repression is a prominent feature of nondemocracies, but its effectiveness in quieting dissent and fostering regime survival remains unclear. We exploit the location of military bases before the coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile in 1973, which is uncorrelated to precoup electoral outcomes, and show that counties near these bases experienced more killings and forced disappearances at the hands of the government during the dictatorship. Our main result is that residents of counties close to military bases both registered to vote and voted “No” to Pinochet's continuation in power at higher rates in the crucial 1988 plebiscite that bolstered the democratic transition. Potential mechanisms include informational frictions on the intensity of repression in counties far from bases and shifts in preferences caused by increased proximity to the events. Election outcomes after democratization show no lasting change in political preferences.