Two-Thirds of Russian Citizens Are Afraid of the Ministry of Fear

According to a public opinion survey of Russians, more than 80 percent of respondents are concerned about abuses committed by law-enforcement personnel, but not all of them lay the blame for this on minister Rashid Nurgaliyev.     

"We Were Given the Order to Arrest Popov…"

Between August 19 and August 21, Moscow was perhaps the only theater of military actions within the country. It was there that the fate of democracy, the fate of perestroika, was decided. If the junta had emerged victorious in Moscow, the other regions of the country would have probably capitulated without a struggle.     

We Are All to Some Extent Vladimir Vol'foviches …

… Yet if Vladimir Vol'fovich did not exist we would have to invent him. Yes, Russia needs him. Moreover, he was created by Russia from the same papilionaceous material from which is cut in its entirety the flitting philosophy of Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov. There is a certain grayness, a certain defenseless cheekiness, and a certain disarming, childlike, innocent candor in Zhirinovsky's very existence:

I had nowhere at all to play—neither in the room nor in the corridor. There was always a queue at the toilet, there was always a stench because it always smelled bad in the toilet, especially as people would enter it one after the other in unending succession. There were no fresheners. If a total of ten or eleven persons go to the toilet in the morning, there is no time for fresheners. And some people smoked there, which was also revolting. … Since childhood, I had always been in these noxious clouds of tobacco smoke. … I was in everyone's way. I was the smallest.     

Juvenile Waiver 2003: Where Are We Now?

Juvenile waiver has received much attention from the public, practitioners, and scholars during the last decade. Prior studies have documented the increased use and effects of waiver. In this study we examine the current state of the law regarding juvenile waiver. We replicate a 1995 study of state waiver statutes and detail the changes in prosecutorial, judicial, and legislative waiver since 1995. While the juvenile crime rate has slowed, legislatures' fascination with waiver has increased. In less than 10 years, the number of states utilizing prosecutorial waiver has increased 25%, 27 states have modified their judicial waiver statutes, and 30 states have modified their legislative waiver statutes.     

Research on Gender and the Law: Where Are We Going,Where Have We Been?

This article provides an overview of issues related to research on gender and the law. Following a discussion of the ways in which gender and the law interact, we assess the extent to which Law and Human Behavior (LHB) has addressed the issue of gender. Specifically, we present the results of our analysis of the role of gender in articles published in LHB from 1990 through 1996. We discuss the relatively few gender-relevant studies that appeared, as well as comment upon the attention given to gender by research with other primary foci. We then discuss various strategies for conducting gender research and their implications for research on gender and the law. We conclude by introducing the articles in this special issue on gender and the law, commenting on how they add to our accumulated knowledge in this area.     

Russian Federation Federal Law "On the General Principles of the Organization of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation"

The 2011 recertification of the Russian police force has been accompanied by numerous violations of legal procedures.     

网上证券交易的风险防范及法律规制

网上证券交易是证券行业以互联网络为媒介给投资者提供的一种全新商业服务。因互联网络发展时间短 ,技术水平也在不断提高中 ,加上相关法律法规的缺失 ,因而网上证券交易在为证券公司带来无限商机的同时 ,也提出了如何确保投资者交易安全问题。通过探讨网上证券交易的风险类别及其防范对策的基础 ,对如何建立和完善网上证券交易法律制度提出了若干设想     

Much Obliged: Volunteering,Normative Activities,and Willingness to Serve on Juries

Although compulsory, many people treat jury duty as voluntary. This article examines the conceptual and empirical links between participating in voluntary activity and stated willingness to serve on a jury. We also consider the role of engaging in other normative behaviors. Analysis of 1,304 US citizens in the Survey of Texas Adults showed an initial relationship between volunteering and willingness to serve, net of personal resources, prior jury service, and prosocial attitudes. However, indicators of normative activities (voting, contacting elected officials, keeping up with medical appointments, and avoiding bars) largely eliminated this relationship. People who volunteered some, but not too much, were more willing; an analysis of domains of volunteering showed that engaging in public service work predicted willingness. Results suggest that the public service and duty‐based nature of jury participation should be emphasized to understand willingness to serve and to consider novel ways to increase summons responses.     

"Where One Sex Discriminates Against the Other,True Freedom Is Impossible"

Ten years have passed since the collapse of the USSR and the formation of its quasi-successor—the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Ten years is quite a significant period for today's rapidly changing international relations. Summing up the preliminary results of the decade enables us to outline the most significant directions in the development of the post-Soviet space; to identify the factors that have the greatest probability of being dynamic, even if differently directed; and to assess the path walked by the commonwealth in the last ten years.     

“We Are the Visible Proof”: Legitimizing Abortion Regret Misinformation through Activists’ Experiential Knowledge

Since 2010, many abortion policies emerging at the state level have been designed around the idea of “abortion regret,” a scientifically discredited assertion that abortion causes long‐term health problems for women. Studies have examined the legal significance of regret claims in case law as well as the role scientific misinformation and uncertainty play in the policy process. However, scholars have given less attention to the intersection between abortion regret experiences and misinformation. We address this gap in the literature by examining how antiabortion activists' experiential knowledge continues to reinforce and legitimize misinformation contained in state policies. We explore the process of substantiating abortion regret misinformation by attaching it to activists' experiential expertise. Based on twenty‐three interviews with antiabortion activists, we argue that misinformation receives validation through the certainty of experiential knowledge, which activists mobilize around and use as a source of evidence in the policy process.     

We Are All Victims: Questionable Content and Collective Victimisation in the Digital Age

Asian Journal of Criminology - Traditionally, the idea of being a victim is associated with a crime, accident, trickery or being duped. With the advent of globalisation and rapid growth in the...