A mixed DNA profile controversy revisited

Semaan et al. (J Forensic Res, 2020, 11, 453) discuss a mock case “where eight different individuals [P₁ through P₈] could not be excluded in a mixed DNA analysis. Even though … expert DNA mixture analysis software was used.” Two of these are the true donors. The LRs reported are incorrect due to the incorrect entry of propositions into LRmix Studio. This forced the software to account for most of the alleles as drop-in, resulting in LRs 60–70 orders of magnitude larger than expected. P₁, P₂, P₄, P₅, and P₈ can be manually excluded using peak heights. This has relevance when using LRmix which does not use peak heights. We extend the work using the same two reference genotypes who were the true contributors as Semaan et al. (J Forensic Res, 2020, 11, 453). We simulate three two-donor mixtures with peak heights using these two genotypes and analyze using STRmix?. For the simulated 1:1 mixture, one of the non-donors’ LRs supported him being a contributor when no conditioning was used. When considered in combination with any other potential donors (i.e., with conditioning), this non-donor was correctly eliminated. For the 3:1 mixture, all results correctly supported that the non-donors were not contributors. The low-template 4:1 mixture LRs with no conditioning showed support for all eight profiles as donors. However, the results from pair-wise conditioning showed that only the two ground truth donors had LRs supporting that they were contributors to the mixture. We recommend the use of peak heights and conditioning profiles, as this allows better sensitivity and specificity even when the persons share many alleles.     

中国古代先问亲邻制度考析

田宅交易先问亲邻的制度在法律中出现始于后周时期，在宋元时期达到极盛。明清时期，国家律典对此不再作强制性规定，但在民间习惯中，先问亲邻的做法仍广泛存在。这一制度能最大限度地将土地保留在本宗族的内部，减小交易风险，并协调家族成员关系。它与现代民法中的优先购买权和相邻权等制度有密切的关系。     

宪法与刑事诉讼法关系模式的发展趋势--紧密型关系模式的普遍化

由于宪政的深入发展、刑事诉讼中权力与权利关系冲突的日益加剧、人本主义的滥觞、法律形态的程序化等方面的原因,宪法与刑事诉讼法关系变得更加紧密,世界范围内正逐渐形成紧密型关系模式的普遍化趋势.     

亲密关系暴力:男性与女性谁更具攻击性--国外相关研究评述

国外研究者对亲密关系暴力中男女的攻击性差异持两种不同的观点并由此产生了持续的争论。以女权主义研究者为代表的观点认为男性比女性更具攻击性;以家庭冲突研究者为代表的观点认为女性的攻击性与男性一样甚至比男性的更强。本文分析了争论产生的原因:样本类型和对攻击概念的界定不同,测量工具的局限性以及两性对暴力攻击存在的知觉差异和报告差异。相信对这些问题的探讨有助于我国对两性与暴力问题的研究。     

论警检关系的基本特征与发展趋势

尽管世界上几个主要国家的警检关系存在三大模式的分野,但各国警察机关和检察机关之间既存在形式上的分工关系,又具有实质上的合作关系,只不过三大模式的侧重点有所不同而已。大致说来,英美模式的侧重点在审判程序,而大陆模式、中俄模式的侧重点在审前程序。但从一些国家近年来的司法改革看,三大模式在相互吸收的基础上,警检关系开始出现紧密化的发展趋势。     

列宁保持与群众血肉联系的思想及在中国的借鉴和发展

列宁在领导俄共（布）执政的过程中，充分认识到保持与群众血肉联系的重要，他认为执政党保持与人民群众的血肉联系，是由党的性质任务决定的；是巩固新生政权的需要；是顺利建设社会主义的需要。并且他就如何保持与群众的血肉联系提出一系列思想，他强调要从群众需求的角度出发制定方针政策；执政党要真正深入群众，关心群众生活；给人民广泛的知情权，并充分发挥群众的监督作用。他的这方面思想在中国得以继承和发展。     

Stealing into the wild: conservation science,plant breeding and the makings of new seed enclosures

Faced with pressing climatic changes, scientific and industrial interests are vying to develop crops that can survive drought, floods and shifting pest regimes. Increasingly, they look for solutions in an unlikely place: the gene pools of wild plants. Crop wild relatives (CWR) – species closely related to crops, including their ancestors – offer breeders the allure of retracing the domestication bottleneck, infusing genomes of modern crops with ‘lost’ genetic variety. Yet wild relatives also confront threats from climate change, urbanization and expansion of industrial agri-food. Thus, CWR, seen as both salvational and threatened, have become an international conservation and food-security priority. It is my contention that, in their common project to harness wild-relative potential, conservation and breeding science are co-evolving to extend seed commodity relations into new spheres. I examine enclosures along two fronts: first within ‘systematic CWR conservation’, where ‘in situ’ approaches, typically regarded as empowering and sustainable alternatives to ‘ex situ’, instead may support a complementary system of value extraction; second, in breeding and biotechnology research, which produces new value for CWR while profoundly shaping upstream conservation priorities. An important finding is that although today’s ‘ex situ-centric’ complementarity favors dispossession, an ‘in situ-centric’ approach could foster democratic renewal of biocultural diversity.     

论失踪损害赔偿之诉的法律适用——以马航客机失踪事件切入

自然人的失踪通常都会给其近亲属造成严重的精神损害和一定的财产损害,依据我国法律现有规定及其解释,在失踪是因可归责于他人的事由所致时,失踪者近亲属应独立享有对相关责任人的损害赔偿请求权。肯定此类损害赔偿请求权,不仅符合分配正义原则,而且能更好地实现权益保护与行为自由的平衡。在单纯的失踪损害赔偿之诉中,失踪者近亲属可以请求赔偿精神损害、寻亲费用和扶养费损失等,在失踪者已被宣告死亡时,还可请求死亡赔偿金。     

行政法上的利害关系人新探

从大陆法系国家公权利和反射性利益相区分的角度看,与行政主体相对的私人可以分成行政相对人、利害关系人和一般公众,他们是行政法"人像"的具体展开。从本质上看,利害关系人是由反射性利益人转化而来的一类公权利人,这类行政法上私人的确立必将改变行政过程中的利益结构,推动行政过程的民主化,促使行政法重心的转移。     

浅谈"四条禁令"的贯彻实施

"四条禁令"的内容并不是什么创新的内容,但它以"禁令"的形式出台,在广大政法干警中引起不小的冲击波,因为它和干警的一日生活忠息相关,如不加强宣传警示,极易触犯禁区. 所以,"四条禁令"就是狠抓看似小事的干警一日生活,加强政法干警的素质养成,从而树立廉洁奉公、勤政为民的良好形象,以此为各项工作的开展打好基础,提高整个政法队伍的战斗力.