Seeing the improvement of the criminal trial structure from China’s criminal courtroom arrangements (tribunal design)

The setting of criminal court has become an important representation of the criminal trial structure due to its visual and vivid reflection of the legal position and relations among the three parties of litigation, i.e. the prosecuting party, the advocating party and the judge. As a result of the influence of ancient “inquest” centered trial mode, lack of the defendant’s right to silence and incomplete revolution of the criminal trial mode, the existing criminal court setting features an umbrella shaped structure. To reform the criminal trial structure in China, we should eliminate the air of “inquest” from the existing court interrogation mode, strengthen the hearing of evidence and set up a equiangular triangle shaped trial structure of neutral trial, equality between the prosecuting and advocating parties and litigant oriented. __________ Translated from the Jurist Review, 2005, (2) (in Chinese)     

"云冈学"的创建势在必行

由于云冈石窟缺乏文献和我们对它的创建者鲜卑民族所知较少的缘故 ,石窟的研究遇到了较多困难 ,需要创建一个新型的学科“云冈学”来打破这种僵局。目前 ,建立“云冈学”的基本条件已经具备。     

传媒研究的四重语境:一个本土化的视角

传媒研究中的功能主义范式不能对社会中动态的、冲突的部分给以把握,也不能对处于转型期的中国社会中的传媒的相关问题作出解释。应将传媒处身的“语境”视为一种问题视野,在其中对传媒现实给以观察与解释,并从中国的社会发展所处阶段、政治经济现实和传媒生存状况等多个维度出发,重视当前传媒研究的四重语境,即前现代的社会阶段、后现代的话语氛围与消费主义思潮、传媒的受控与工具性质、传媒的商业化倾向。     

关于社会工作专业教育中课程设置模式的思考

社会工作专业教育的课程设置应以技术性课程设置为逻辑框架，在具体的课程设置环节上增加实用性模式和批判性模式的基本要素，形成融各种模式之长的社会工作教育反思性课程设置模式。作者在文中还通过对某高校社会工作专业课程设置案例的分析，对反思性课程设置模式提出实施的可能方向。     

关于行政补偿相关问题的思考

行政补偿制是现代法治国家极其重要的一项法律制度,对于规范政府权力和保障公民权利意义重大。目前我国关于行政补偿的规定过于分散,缺乏一部统一的行政补偿基本法。因此,科学界定行政补偿的概念、探讨行政补偿制度产生的理论基础和作用、分析我国现行行政补偿制度的缺陷,是构建我国行政补偿制度首先应当思考的问题。     

微观社会环境与吸毒

吸毒产生的客观原因由宏观社会环境和微观社会环境所构成。而微观社会环境则从一定程度上决定着个体吸毒具体行为的发生。家庭、学校及社区等微观社会环境对个体吸毒行为的产生 :一是有诱感作用 ;二是有染习作用 ;三是有驱动作用。在制定吸毒的有关社会预防对策时 ,除了具有宏观社会环境的预防措施外 ,还应该包括家庭、学校及社区等微观社会环境的预防方法     

现代犯罪观:自然权利背后的优势补偿

社会化和犯罪化是抑制乃至剥夺个人自然权利的过程,要使惩罚犯罪具有合理性,必须使个人的自然权利兑换成社会权利;只有社会权利能够给个人带来较自然权利更多的利益,改变个人的生存结构,令其从自然状态过渡到社会框架下才具有合理性。在惩罚犯罪时,必须考虑犯罪乃个人自然权利体现的基本事实;而量定责任时,也需考虑自然权利兑换社会权利不能的情形,适度对自然权利所代表的竞争优势给予补偿。     

How mass media attract political elites’ attention

Political agenda‐setting research has shown that policy makers are responsive vis‐à‐vis media priorities. However, the mechanisms behind this effect have remained understudied so far. In particular, agenda‐setting scholars have difficulties determining to what extent politicians react to media coverage purely because of the information it contains (information effect), and to what extent the effect is driven not by what the media say but by the fact that certain information is in the media (media channel effect), which is valued for its own sake – for instance, because media coverage is considered to be a reflection of public opinion. By means of a survey‐embedded experiment with Belgian, Canadian and Israeli political elites (N = 410), this study tests whether the mere fact that an issue is covered by the news media causes politicians to pay attention to this issue. It shows that a piece of information gets more attention from politicians when it comes via the media rather than an identical piece of information coming via a personal e‐mail. This effect occurs largely across the board: it is not dependent on individual politician characteristics.     

Creating Settings for Youth Empowerment and Leadership: An Ecological Perspective

Youth development programs are increasingly focusing on youth empowerment and leadership, a shift which often requires adult staff to adopt new roles and practices. This article explores staff practice in the context of a multisite initiative designed to engage marginalized youth in social change through youth-led grants. Interviews with youth workers and managers revealed practices at multiple ecological levels. Individual-level practices supported youths’ capacities to participate. Group-level practices fostered social interactions and activities that actualized the youth-led approach. Setting-level practices created structures that supported and protected group activities while organization-level practices promoted a favorable environment for youth leadership. Analyzed from an ecological and activity settings perspective, these results contribute to understanding the multifaceted and complex nature of youth work in power-sharing practice models. Practice implications include identifying training needs to help practitioners navigate across multiple ecological levels and suggesting reflection questions for practitioners.     

网络新闻的走势——寻求网民心理需求和议程设置的完美契合

结合传播学理论中的议程设置对新闻网站的网络新闻进行分析(以两会期间人民网新闻排行为观察视点),可以发现新闻网站在进行议程设置时和网民心理需求之间的一些规律,网民心理需求和议程设置契合地越完美,网络新闻的前景也就越光明。网络的参与性和交互性与网民的显著性、接近性、趣味性等心理可以结合起来,这样网络新闻会日臻完美,从而更加吸引网民的眼球。