From Suicide and Strain to Mass Murder

Mass media explanations and criminological profiles of mass shootings focus on the perpetrator’s individual psychological traits in their search for motive and meaning behind such horrific events. We consider the broader social context to better understand mass shootings. We focus on three recent high profile mass shootings in the United States – Aurora, CO, Newtown, CT, and Santa Barbara, CA as examples of people responding to various experienced strains with violence, and conclude with some ideas to help prevent such occurrences from happening again.     

论古代小说中的自杀方式

古代小说中描写了各种各样的自杀方式，这些自杀方式具有很大的随意性，与自杀者的地位和性格有一定关系，也有助于认识古人面对死亡时的态度。     

Downtown malls and the city agenda

He is the author or editor of eight books and more than 50 articles on housing and city development. He has served as Chairman of the Faculty at M.I.T. and as director of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies. His most recent book, written with Lynne Sagalyn, is Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities,from which this article is extracted.     

京沪青年女性在民国时期的自杀问题

本文将集中讨论两大问题:其一涉及到法国社会学大师埃米尔·迪尔凯姆的自杀学说。笔者认为,迪尔凯姆的自杀学说在论及性别问题时带有浓厚的男权主义偏见,他的分析偏移了他所大力提倡的社会事实研究法;其二民国时期京沪两地的青年女性自杀格局。根据笔者的分析,京沪女性的自杀问题在当时非常严重,两性自杀死亡率相近;两地不同年龄段的女性的自杀已遂和未遂事件中女青年所占的比例最高;诱因多是家庭矛盾或情感纠纷。本文意在厘清古典社会学自杀理论的局限,也在将中国近现代的自杀问题纳入到社会性别分析框架中探讨。     

新形势下大学生自杀行为现状分析与研究

分析发现,新形势下大学生自杀行为并没有得到有效遏制,这不仅是由于大学生自身矛盾影响的结果,也与各个社会职能部门的外部影响有着一定的关系,所以,通过提高大学生综合素质能力,家庭与高校的积极引导,社会职能的充分利用将是解决这一问题的新契机。     

大学生自杀现象的心理分析及干预

大学生自杀问题成为严重的社会问题之一.造成这种现象的原因很多,有客观因素如学习压力、情感挫折、人际关系问题和就业压力等方面,也有主观原因,包括大学生本身的生理因素、存在的认知偏差、不良的性格因素以及耐挫能力低等因素.在探讨这些原因的基础上,提出了相应的干预措施,改善大学生的心理环境,加强大学生心理健康教育,建立完善的心理危机干预机制等都有助于减少大学生自杀现象的出现.     

Rights and the Political Process: Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Aftermath of Washington v. Glucksberg

Although scholars have been concerned over the last severaldecades with assessing the relative consequences of relyingon the political and judicial processes for resolving rightsclaims, most of these studies have analyzed cases in which rightshave been secured through the judicial process. This paper takesa different approach and analyzes the consequences of Washingtonv. Glucksberg (1997), in which the U.S. Supreme Court deferredthe issue of physician-assisted suicide to the states 'politicalprocesses, at least for the present time. This study seeks todetermine, through an analysis of state developments in thetwo-year period following the Glucksberg decision, the extentto which the various hypothesized advantages of resolving rightsclaims through the political process have been realized. Itis reasonable to conclude that Glucksberg has generally hadthe effect of enhancing democratic deliberation, securing representationof relevant interests, and providing opportunities for policyexperimentation in various states.