Settling Disputes between Neighbours in the Lifeworld: An Evaluation of Experiments with Community Mediation in the Netherlands

Many neighbourhoods in the Netherlands have reached the stage of colliding subcultures, and interpersonal conflict. The young live next to the old, the rich next to the poor, single people next to families, the white next to the brown and the black, the established next to the outsiders. In some places, this social-cultural abundance leads to fear, uncertainty, and irritation. Not everybody is as understanding and tolerant of diverse lifestyles and thinking patterns as another person is. In places, this diversity leads to new behaviour patterns and institutions. Multi-ethnic community boards are starting to function as mediatory panels for settling disputes between neighbours and neighbourhood residents. In this article we claim that community mediation - a form of alternative dispute resolution designed to resolve interpersonal conflict in the neighbourhood - is both an attempt to rejuvenate the idea of community and a new way to settle differences and interpersonal conflicts between neighbours in the Netherlands. One might even argue that the neighbourhood is a level too high for social intervention and that instead one should focus on a lower level in the lifeworld: the house, the block, or at most, the street.     

Longitudinal Analysis: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Introduction

Longitudinal Analysis: An Introduction to the Special Issue     

不动产登记审查的简化和分化

<正>在登记生效主义模式下,登记具有公信力,不正确登记会导致善意取得之发生,并且导致国家对真正权利人的赔偿责任,这就迫使登记机构不得不对登记的事项,包括登记能力、权利来源、物权变动合意等进行审查,从而确保了正确土地登记簿的产生。理想地说,登记机关在审查时应该充分、及时、深入地了解当事人的权利状态,从而使规范真正地涵摄事实,成为事实的自我影像。但是,在有限理性的约束性条件下,这种理想永远无法实现。我们注定要生活在一个残缺不全的世界,我们运用理性来建构的规范世界永远不会和真实世界完全吻合。尤其是,由于登记的规范效力可以超越事实上的物权效力,不法之徒往往利用这一机制冒领他人权利,将他人的不动产据为己有或者以为抵     

Estimating Size of Drug Users in Macau: an Open Population Capture-Recapture Model with Data Augmentation Using Public Registration Data

Successful drug intervention policies rely on timely assessment of size of drug users and close monitoring of trend regarding drug abuse. Taking advantage of data collected by the Central Registration System for Drug Abusers of Macau (CRSDAM), this study applied open population capture-recapture models with data augmentation techniques to estimate the size of drug users and to identify influential factors on capture and survival probabilities from 2009 to 2014. In particular, the data augmentation technique was used to address missing data issues. The estimated size of drug users has been slowly declining from 2442 (95% Bayesian credible interval [BCI] 2042–2914) in 2009 to 807 (95% BCI 654–1000) in 2014 with a small fluctuation of 2251 (95% BIC 1950–2599) in 2011, and the estimated cumulative size of drug users is 6199 (95% BCI 5651–6873), which is correspondent to a prevalence rate of 1.20% of the current population aged 15 to 54. Although the estimated sizes of total, narcotic, and other drug users were declining, the size of stimulant users might be increasing. People who used narcotics as their first drug and who were reported by governmental agencies were more likely to stay in the registration system, while those who used needle injection were less likely to stay. Governmental agencies, higher education, and using needle injection were negatively associated with the probability of capture over time, while using narcotics as the first drug was positively associated with it.     

浅析提高公安机关战斗力的因素

提高公安机关战斗力,才能有效地打击犯罪和预防犯罪,促进我国体制改革的顺利进行,增加公安机关的人力因素,理顺公安机关的管理体制因素,加强公安机关硬件建设因素和良好群众关系因素,对提高公安机关战斗力都有直接的作用。     

论飞车抢夺犯罪的防治对策

飞车抢夺是指主要借助机动车辆实施抢夺的行为。飞车抢夺犯罪的特征主要有:犯罪地域的集中性;犯罪时间的选择性; 犯罪对象的针对性:犯罪目标的特定性;犯罪结构的集合性;犯罪主体的年轻化。飞车抢夺犯罪的防范措施主要有:建立“打防控”体化 防范网络:完善情报信息网络建设;重点布防确保打击的准确力和精确度,动员社会各方面力量进行社会治安综合治理;提高人们对 飞车抢夺犯罪的认识和防范能力。     

1992年荷兰新民法典概况

一、概说 (一)历史 1838年<荷兰民法典>大体是在改编和扩充的基础上对<法国民法典>的翻译.这部法典服役了大约100年后已显出过时的迹象.一个政府委员会被任命对其进行修补,但进展相当缓慢,这激怒了当时最著名的学者之一--莱顿大学民法学教授梅杰斯(EduardM.Meijers).     

警务实战训练内容体系分析

警务实战训练作为现代公安教育训练工作的重要内容,一直倍受从事公安教育训练工作研究的专家学者们积极关注.本文从探讨警务实战的内涵和特点入手,运用系统论的观点从宏观视角对警务实战训练的内容体系进行分析,并对其具体内容的相互关系及影响进行探讨,以期为警务实战内容的进一步研究提供些许参考.     

完善我国房地产登记制度的实证思考

我国的房地产登记模式,仍应采取权利登记模式,同时可以吸取契约登记制度的一些优点;登记机关的设立一般以市为基础;在立法上,应明确区分土地权利的总登记和初始登记,在实务中,有必要引入房地产登记专业代理人制度,同时确立登记机关和专业代理人相应的赔偿责任和保险制度。     

Use of the Polygraph in Combating Crime

The current legal provisions directing the struggle against organized crime, the low technical level of investigative equipment, the investigators' extremely heavy work load, and the "procedural routines" necessary in gathering evidence obstruct any improvement in the environment that gives rise to crime. This requires the use of nontraditional (most often, nonprocedural) methods of criminal investigation. Thus there is an urgent need to update the guidelines that govern the use of such methods by law-enforcement agencies. In particular, a number of laws have been enacted allowing the admissibility as evidence of the products not only of video recordings and still and motion-picture cameras, but of other technical tools as well.     

Evaluation of Effectiveness of Health Services Training Given with Different Methods in Combating of Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Pilot Study

The study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of health services training provided with different methods in combating of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. The intervention group of the study consisted of 132 healthcare workers (HCW) and 249 HCWs in the control group. According to the result of study, training given to the intervention group was more effective in increasing the knowledge level, compared to the control group. Furthermore, comparison of the HCWs in the intervention group with the control group revealed that the attitudes towards emotional, psychological and sexual violence and justifying myths changed positively. In this scope, it can be said that intervention training was effective in terms of improving knowledge and attitude on IPV. However, it is determined that the training given to both groups was inefficient in terms of turning into behaviour.     

The legalisation of euthanasia in the Netherlands: lessons to be learnt

The euthanasia debate has been re-ignited by the decision of the Dutch Parliament to legalise the practice. This will make the Netherlands the first nation in the world to legalise euthanasia. This paper explains the key aspects of the legislation and considers whether it provides a viable model for reform.     

Implementing randomized experiments in criminal justice settings: An evaluation of multi-systemic therapy in the Netherlands

This paper addresses several issues that we encountered when implementing a randomized experiment to evaluate a promising intervention for serious juvenile delinquents, multi-systemic therapy (MST). The issues overlap with issues others experienced when trying to conduct randomized experiments in clinical practice, but are complicated because MST takes place in a legal context. The complex juvenile justice system makes it difficult to come up with a simple system of randomization. Problems encountered are the complexity of the referral process in this type of intervention, legal issues and the ethical concerns raised by clinicians. Our experiences might be useful to others planning to carry out a randomized efficacy study within the juvenile justice system. Firstly, other researchers might feel supported if they realize that others experience similar problems, and, secondly, we provide some concrete suggestions concerning the following: selecting the procedures and determining the moment of randomization, dealing with and overcoming the resistance of institutions involved, maintaining the cooperation of both the institution and the sample, and keeping turnover of research staff to a minimum.     

Arts Marketing Performance: An Artistic-Mission-Led Approach to Evaluation

Marketing in the arts sector has evolved during the past decades from a functional tool to a business philosophy. At the same time, a relational view of art as experience has emerged in contemporary arts philosophy, highlighting the role of arts consumers in the creation and reception of arts. As a consequence, arts consumers have gained a central position within the artistic mission of arts organizations, posing new challenges to the role of arts marketing both as a practice and as an academic discipline. Against this background, financial figures and audience numbers are insufficient indicators of the contribution that arts marketing makes to the functioning of arts organizations. This article suggests evaluating the performance of arts marketing based on the contribution made to the achievement of the arts organization's artistic mission and proposes a model based on Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard to guide the artistic-mission-led evaluation of arts marketing performance. By paying attention to the new strategic role of arts marketing within the emerging relational view of the arts and by integrating recent literature on performance management in nonprofit organizations, we make a theoretical contribution to the body of knowledge on arts marketing performance evaluation.     

Psychometric Evaluation of the Healing After Gender-Based Violence Scale: An Instrument for Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Assessment of Recovery Progress for Women-Identifying Survivors

Journal of Family Violence - The Healing after Gender-based Violence Scale (GBV-Heal) was developed to measure the holistic recovery processes of woman-identifying survivors of gender-based...     

An Evaluation of Malingering Screens with Competency to Stand Trial Patients: A Known-Groups Comparison

The assessment of malingering is a fundamental component of forensic evaluations that should be considered with each referral. In systematizing the evaluation of malingering, one option is the standardized administration of screens as an initial step. The current study assessed the effectiveness of three common screening measures: the Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST; Miller, 2001), the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS; Widows & Smith, 2004), and the Evaluation of Competency to Stand Trial-Revised Atypical Presentation Scale (ECST-R ATP; Rogers, Tillbrook, & Sewell, 2004). Using the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms (SIRS) as the external criterion, 100 patients involved in competency to stand trial evaluations were categorized as either probable malingerers (n=21) or nonmalingerers (n=79). Each malingering scale produced robust effect sizes in this known-groups comparison. Results are discussed in relation to the comprehensive assessment of malingering within a forensic context.