信用卡诈骗罪若干问题研究

我国刑法学界对信用卡诈骗罪已进行了较为深入的研讨,但就该罪的基本理论问题而言,也仍存在不少分歧。就该罪概念的界定、犯罪客体和犯罪对象、犯罪客观方面、犯罪主体等方面存在着争议问题。     

贷款诈骗罪构成要件疑难问题研究

贷款诈骗罪构成要件的疑难问题集中地体现于二点:单位骗贷问题与非法占有目的。在疏理了对单位骗贷问题的无罪论、等同论和变通论等观点之后,重点阐释了变通论的不足与等同论的合理根据。对非法占有目的问题,应在应然上坚持客观主义立场的不要说,同时应注意认定此目的时的复杂情形。同时,对本罪客观方面的疑难之处,本文也予以简要分析。     

诉讼欺诈行为研究——以刑法为视角的分析

诉讼欺诈是一种独特的危害社会的行为。我国刑法理论和司法实践对诉讼欺诈行为的定性分歧较大。事实上,诉讼欺诈完全符合诈骗罪的本质特征,因而应按诈骗罪定罪量刑。诉讼欺诈行为侵犯双重具体的社会关系,但其直接客体是单一客体。诈骗罪中的被骗人与被害人不必是同一人,但被骗人与财产处分者必须是同一人;在被骗人与被害人不一致的情况下,应当以被骗人为基准来判断处分意思和处分行为。     

欺诈:一种竞争法的理论诠释——兼论《消费者权益保护法》第49条的适用与完善

欺诈在合同法中是一种意思瑕疵 ,在信息社会里 ,欺诈作为误导公众的行为 ,是一种典型的不正当竞争行为。《消费者权益保护法》不能简单地视为合同法的特别法 ,欺诈的研究不应拘泥于意思表示的狭隘范围 ,反欺诈的消费者权益保护应纳入反不正当竞争法的范畴来考察。从竞争法的角度来看 ,欺诈不要求行为人具有主观故意 ,一种行为只要在客观上有误导消费者的效果 ,就足以构成欺诈。欺诈的救济措施 ,在主体设计、补救措施和赔偿责任上均有区别于传统合同欺诈的制度设计。     

论信用证诈骗案件侦查

信用证诈骗案件是近年来多发的一类经济犯罪案件,其常见犯罪手法有使用伪造、变造的信用证或付随单据、文件,使用作废的信用证,骗取信用证,利用信用证"软条款"进行诈骗等。对于该类案件的侦查,应当有针对性地采取侦查措施,主要有分析信用证运作流程,寻找侦查突破口;收集查证相关单据凭证,为认定犯罪提供关键证据;采取有效措施,防止犯罪嫌疑人外逃;树立深挖犯罪思想,努力追缴赃款赃物;加强合作,建立查办信用证犯罪的协作机制等。     

Mexicans react to electoral fraud and political corruption: an assessment of public opinion and voting behavior

Despite various electoral reforms enacted in Mexico between 1988 and 1994, large numbers of Mexicans doubted the honesty of elections and the general integrity of their country's policy making process. Such doubts did not automatically lead, however, to support for opposition parties that called for greater democratization. Rather, voter preferences were largely dependent on judgments about the opposition's viability and competence. Widespread suspicions about fraud and corruption in Mexico did affect electoral outcomes by making it less likely that potential opposition supporters turned out to vote. Data are drawn from seven national public opinion surveys conducted in Mexico in 1986, 1988, 1991, 1994 (3 polls), and 1995.     

Consent,Fraud and Family Law

In two recent cases the Supreme Court unanimously clarified that one party's fraudulent non-disclosure of material facts 'unravels' any agreement made in their absence. Because the parties' agreement is a sine qua non of a consent order, the order may be set aside, despite the desirability in family law of clean break and certainty. Victims of fraud in matrimonial proceedings should not be left in a worse position than victims in other civil proceedings. However, while consistency across different areas of civil law was important here, are there any circumstances in which inconsistency may be justified?     

Ethno-racial identity (politics) by law: “Fraud” and “choice”

Following an introduction to the changes in how ethno-racial identity is conceptualized in the social sciences and humanities by the destabilization of categorical frameworks, the author looks at how law reacts to these discussions and paradigm shifts, and argues that legal and administrative approaches face severe linguistic and conceptual limitations by operating within a “choice” and “fraud” binary. The article then questions if the free choice of identity exists as a principle of international minority protection law, a legal field that arguably represents a global political and ethical consensus. The author makes two claims. First, according to the basic tenet of legal logic, a proper right to free choice of identity allowing people to opt out of racial, ethnic, or national (minority) communities would necessitate the freedom to opt in to the majority or to any chosen group. The second claim, however, is that international law would not actually construct an approach to opting in. Thus, the right to free choice of identity is not an autonomous, sui generis right under international law.     

Administrative Innovations and Accountability Failures: The Termination of the Spanish Telecommunications Agency

We discuss how far accountability practices may be relevant to the success of independent regulators in countries without a tradition of administrative autonomy. We develop a conceptualisation of agency accountability failures and develop an analytical framework to examine the life and termination of the Spanish regulatory agency for telecommunications, CMT (Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones - Telecommunications Market Commission). We argue that the CMT’s termination was related, among other reasons, to accountability failures in its institutional design. The paper relies on a variety of sources, including legislation, literature, media coverage, and semistructured interviews with agency officials and several stakeholders.