It Is Inexpedient to Repeat Recertification!

Head of the Personnel Directorate of the MVD for the Republic of Mordova Igor' Zubarov discusses the results of recertification and proposals for future police reforms.     

What Is Corporate Crime? It Is Not Illegal Corporate Behavior

Corporate misconduct is of increasing concern to society - and researchers. Despite this increased research focus, little is known about the factors that lead to such wrongdoing, the consequences of such behavior, and consequently of meaningful remedies and deterrence measures. A large factor in this information problem is the ambiguity surrounding the definition and use of the terms "corporate crime" and "illegal corporate behavior." Researchers use them interchangeably despite the fact they are two different phenomena. This article reviews some of the definitions and uses of these terms, and points out the confusion which results. It then discusses major differences between illegal corporate behavior and corporate crime, and the positive implications of treating them separately.     

司法鉴定管理立法势在必行

司法鉴定管理问题,已成为当前鉴定界倍受关注的热点。本刊自今年第1期发表全国人大内司委负责同志答记者问——落实“三个代表”重要思想把司法鉴定管理纳入法制化轨道一文之后,收到了不少探讨司法鉴定管理问题的来稿,我们遴选了部分专家的文章,特辟“专家论坛”栏目,以笔谈形式,研究司法鉴定管理中的实际状况和理论问题,旨在促进司法鉴定的立法建设,推进司法鉴定管理体制的改革与完善。     

It Is Important to Understand Our Strengths and Weaknesses

[From the editors of Zhurnalist:] The magical metamorphoses of our journalism could happen only in fairy tales. First, it transformed itself from a handmaiden of the Party into a "fourth estate," literally overnight, then reduced itself to a conveyer belt. Clearly there has been much change in us. So what are these changes, what caused them, and what might their consequences be for us and for society?     

Extremism Has Become More Expensive: Deputies Have Made Punishment for Crimes Committed on the Basis of Nationality Harsher

The Verkhovna Rada today successfully executed a multiple-move combination to replace the obstinate Constitutional Court justices with more compliant and tractable people to rule on the fate of the constitution.     

眼见未必为实——网络证据保全公征的深层问题

一、一件网络侵权案件引起的思考案件回放:今年1月某日,某大型网站的法律顾问向笔者咨询,如何推翻一份被恶意利用的保全证据公证书。笔者仔细了解了案件缘由:某律师事务所受某影视公司委托向该网站提出侵权诉讼,侵权事实是该网站非法提供盗版电影下载,主要证据是某公证处出具的保全证据公证书。该公证书详细记载了公证员在该公司内监督其工作人员保全证据的过程,并附有网页打印件,下载的影片被刻录为光碟保存。该法律顾问没有否认影片可以下载,但指出该网站提供的仅仅是链接方式,网站服务器中并无影片内容,影片内容由其他网站提供。而本案的…     

If Violence Is Domestic, Does It Really Count?

Estimates of the prevalence of marital violence have been found to vary dramatically from survey to survey. This paper addresses one potential explanation for this difference which involves the focus and format of different surveys. We examine the extent to which survey respondents are willing to report marital violence in a context which focuses on criminal behaviors as opposed to a family violence context. In a very basic way, this answers a question as to whether individuals are willing to define acts of marital violence as criminal. Methodologically, it is a measurement issue which seriously affects the ability to compare findings across samples. National Youth Survey data are used to compare rates of generalized spousal assault and victimization reported in a crime context with rates of marital assault and victimization reported in a family violence context. Results indicate that 40 to 83% of all marital assaults and victimizations reported in the marital violence section are not reported in a format which focuses on criminal assault and victimization.     

论我国刑法中的危害行为:实然与应然

危害行为是我国传统刑法理论中一个重要的概念,由于我国耦合平面式的犯罪构成体系导致危害行为在犯罪构成体系中的定位和定性存在明显矛盾。本文在分析这些实然状况的基础上,提出将危害行为提到犯罪构成体系之前,改造为我国刑法中的一般行为概念。     

国家赔偿能否继续与错案追究挂钩

国家赔偿能否继续与错案追究挂钩,这对于现行《国家赔偿法》的顺利实施有着重要意义。有权威学者认为旧《国家赔偿法》之所以实施得不够理想,一个主要原因就在于国家赔偿与错案追究挂起了钩。但是,自侵权两分法的角度考察这个问题,则会发现权威学者的这个观点并不完全正确。在国家赔偿和错案追究的关系问题上,正确的做法是：有关公职人员无过错的,不应挂钩;有过错的,必须挂钩。     

在中国建立不动产登记一元制可行吗?

一、问题之提出 中国物权法研究课题组的《中国物权法草案建议稿》[1]第6条的内容是:依法律行为设立、变更和废止不动产物权,不经登记者无效.依法律行为设立、移转、变更和废止船舶、飞行器和汽车的物权,未经登记的,不得对抗第三人.依法律行为设立、移转、变更和废止其他动产物权,经交付生效.     

It Is Not Paranoia if People Really Are Out to Get You

Abstract

The incidence of hate crime victimization in the states has received scant attention by researchers. Nor is it always clear who feels most vulnerable to hate crime victimization and why. In this research we included hate crime victimization questions in two years (2000, 2001) of a statewide survey. Idaho is a state with a predominately White population. It has been bedeviled with an Aryan Nation's compound and its attendant racist propaganda. We found that many citizens had been the victim of hate crimes in the last year and over the course of their lifetime. Minority group members were disproportionately represented as victims of hate crime and were almost three times as likely to feel vulnerable to it, as White respondents.     

Marital Rape: Is the Crime Taken Seriously Without Co-occurring Physical Abuse?

This vignette study was conducted to determine how observers' beliefs about marital rape are altered by the knowledge of a prior history of husband-to- wife physical violence. Participants (n = 50 college students) read three different marital rape situations; in one situation the husband had been physically violent in the past; in another he had not. In the third situation, participants were not given any information about the physical abuse history between the spouses. As expected, participants blamed the victim most for the marital rape and minimized the seriousness of the rape when they had been told that there was not a prior history of husband-to-wife physical abuse. These findings suggest that observers use a physical violence history to establish the coercion needed to determine that marital rape had occurred. The legal implications of these findings are discussed.     

Technological Protections in Copyright Law: Is More Legal Protection Needed?

Providing legal protection against the 'hacking' of technological locks used to protect copyrighted works recently has been the subject of an international treaty (the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty), a European Community Directive (the Information Society Directive) and major copyright legislation in the USA (the Digital Millennium Copyright Act). By making hacking illegal, these legal protections fortify the technological protections employed by copyright owners to reduce infringement of their works. While copyright owners may use technological protections to compensate for the increased infringement potential in a digital world, technological protections can also be used to obtain far greater protection than the law would otherwise grant the copyright owner. In this article, Professor Loren argues that attention needs to be shifted from providing legal protection for technological protections, to providing legal protections against the overzealous use of these technological protections by content providers. She argues that laws should be enacted, and perhaps even treaties should be signed, that would prohibit the use of technological protections to impermissibly invade certain use rights recognized by a country's copyright laws.