Inmate sues the Correctional Service of Canada

This article summarizes a lawsuit commenced recently in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by an HIV-positive inmate in the federal penitentiary system against the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). This action is an important part of the ongoing struggle to hold government and public officials accountable for failing to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in prisons. The suit contends that CSC must be held liable for the seroconversion of an inmate while in CSC's care and custody, and that it must also be held liable for the alleged negligent provision of medical care to HIV-positive inmates.     

Experience with urine drug testing by the Correctional Service of Canada

The Correctional Service of Canada implemented a urine drug-screening program over 10 years ago. The objective of this report is to describe the program and drug test results in this program for 1999. Offenders in Canadian federal correctional institutions and those living in the community on conditional release were subject to urine drug testing. Urine specimens were collected at correctional facilities and shipped by courier to MAXXAM Analytics Inc. laboratory. All urine specimens were analyzed for amphetamines, cannabinoids, cocaine metabolite (benzoylecgonine), opiates, phencyclidine, benzodiazepines, methyl phenidate, meperidine, pentazocine and fluoxetine by immunoassay screening (homogeneous EIA and ELISA assays) followed by GC-MS confirmation. Ethyl alcohol was analyzed when specifically requested. Alternative screening and confirmation methods with lower cut-off values were used, whenever urine specimens were dilute (creatinine <20mg/dl and specific gravity 相似文献   

从政治哲学到矫正哲学——改革开放30年来监狱学研究回望

以1978年底党的十一届三中全会召开为标志，波澜壮阔的改革开放已历经30年的发展之路。这30年成为中国历史上发展最快、人们得到实惠最多的30年。     

论我国刑事责任的承担方式

刑事责任问题是刑法理论中比较重要的问题.正确认识刑事责任的承担方式是刑法发展的要求,同时也是 刑事责任理论应用于实战的前提条件。本文探讨了我国刑事责任的承担方式,并提出刑事制裁概念。     

Changing How the System Responds to Status Offenders: Connecticut's Families with Service Needs Initiative

Concerned by the number of status offenders in secure detention and the processing of noncriminal behavior through the juvenile and family courts, Connecticut began efforts to reform their approach to troubled and troublesome youth in 2005 (Weithorn, 2005). Between 2005 and 2007, Connecticut enacted a series of legislative changes to both improve services for troubled youth and Families with Service Needs (FWSN), and achieve systematic reforms for processing status offenses. At a systems level, the reforms sought to divert non‐criminal behaviors from formal court processing and prevent secure confinement for status offenders who violated court orders related to their behavior. Connecticut's attempt at second‐order, or system change, is the focus of this outcome evaluation.     

Paradigm shift: motivations for qualified legal professionals to undertake academic study

This paper considers the factors that motivate qualified legal professionals to undertake a further legal academic programme of study. The paper analyses the findings of a recent study concerning a post-graduate research degree collaboration between Northumbria University (NU) and the Law Society of Ireland (LSI) whereby NU’s longstanding LLM Advanced Legal Practice (LLM ALP) has been offered in Ireland through the LSI (LLM ALP (Ire)). The initial offering of the LLM ALP (Ire) has attracted a significant amount of interest from the profession, prompting the authors to consider (i) the factors that motivate ‘time-poor’ professionals to pursue the academic study of law at the post-professional level and (ii) the potential that such a course of study might have to inform and enrich the students’ practice of law. The LLM ALP (Ire) has attracted a significant amount of more established practitioners, whereas those who generally enrol on the LLM ALP in England are at the early stages of their careers, either enrolled on the Legal Practice Course (LPC) or having only recently qualified. Hence this research is focused on a particular student profile of post-professionals with established careers in legal practice.     

《京都议定书》框架下促进我国企业履行环境责任的思考

<京都议定书>是各成员国为应对全球变暖达成温室气体减排承诺的环境协议,我国作为发展中国家在<京都议定书>谈判的第三阶段将面临减排的压力,温室气体减排主要取决于相关行业的发展和企业环境责任的承担情况.企业的环境责任作为企业承担社会责任的组成部分,在理论上刚刚兴起.培育企业环境责任意识,完善企业环境责任理论,探索企业环境责任承担相应机制以实现企业的经济效益增长与社会环境效益的双赢.     

国外政府农村公共服务供给的实践及其启示

本文首先介绍了发达国家如美、日、韩和发展中国家如印度等四国政府在农村公共服务供给方面的实践经验,进而总结出公共服务供给要与本国的基本国情相适应,充分发挥政府的主导作用,明晰各级政府的职责,重视基础教育、医疗卫生和社会保障服务,充分发挥社会组织和协会的作用,重视农业科技以及科技成果的转化等对我国的六点启示,以期对我国政府在农村公共服务供给方面的改革有一定的启迪和借鉴意义.     

关注监狱警察心理健康

心理学研究表明,监狱警察仅在任职头3年内耳闻目睹的丑恶面,比普通人一生中见到和感受到的还要多几倍,“高负荷、高强度、高风险”以及个体认知、社会支持和生物免疫三大中介系统的薄弱无力,使监狱警察成为一个最易出现心理问题的群体。一、心理健康问题敲响警钟有关监狱警察心     

International Prosecution and National Bureaucracy: The Contest to Define International Practices Within the Danish Prosecution Service

This article explores how international ideals and practices of law enforcement come into conflict with national bureaucracies. Drawing on original interviews, the investigation demonstrates how the competition to define the role of international prosecution impacted career strategies as well as the actual administration of criminal law within the Danish Prosecution Service (DPS). The analysis shows that this competition is embodied in two competing groups of prosecutors situated in a wider national bureaucracy—itself subject to transformations that affect the very stakes of the contest to define the international. While the institutionalists build careers closely attuned to the systemic and increasingly lean‐management‐inspired requirements of the DPS, the dissident and consequently unsettled position of the activists leads them to craft alternative career strategies closely related to the emergence of new international fields of criminal law.     

Paying Workers or Paying Lawyers: Employee Termination Practices in the United States and Canada

This article explores one multinational corporation's employee termination practices in the United States and Canada. There are fairly insignificant differences in employees' legal protections in the two countries and the company claims a uniform corporate employee termination process cross‐nationally. However, there are major structural and procedural differences in the employee termination process. The differences, including the way attorneys are utilized, the use of quasi‐legal personnel to comply with regulatory requirements, and the substance of the severance package are explored. In the United States money is directed toward legal professionals –paying lawyers while in Canada expenses associated with employee termination go to severance packages –paying workers.     

利用高校综合优势开展司法鉴定工作

作为司法改革的一个重要组成部分,如何完善司法鉴定制度已成当务之急,而司法鉴定制度的改革,则必然涉及鉴定机构。本文将围绕司法鉴定的性质、价值取向、原则要求等方面阐明依托综合性或专业性高等院校设立司法鉴定机构、开展司法鉴定工作的优势,以为司法鉴定制度改革抛砖引玉。     

关于劳动教养向违法行为矫治制度过渡的实践与思考

劳动教养作为具有中国特色的一项法律制度,已经走过了近50年的风雨历程,成功地教育挽救了大批违法和轻微犯罪人员,为维护国家政治稳定和社会安定发挥了重要作用。但是随着我国法制的日趋完备和依法治国,建设社会主义法治国家进程的整体推进,劳动教养制度深层次的矛盾和问题已日渐凸显,严重束缚了劳动教养制度的规范化发展。作为劳教工作的实践者,面对新形势、新任务,理应站在建设社会主义法治国家的高度,按照中央司法体制改革和司法部关于劳教办特色,推进管理工作改革的总体部署,坚持与时俱进的精神,探索符合劳教自身发展规律,完善和创新执…     

Correctional employees' reactions to job characteristics: A data based argument for job enlargement

Job enlargement, an industrial organization innovation that allows workers (within limits) greater responsibility for their jobs is explored and discussed in relation to correctional personnel. Based on responses to tests administered to 104 correctional personnel in a Midwestern state, it was found that industrial findings generalize to corrections.Job enlargement is recommended to improved the personnel and managerial aspects of the correctional institution, to bring the institution into conformity with environmental reality, and to overcome the therapy-custody dichotomy.     

对创新教育矫治模式提高教育挽救质量的几点思考

“首要标准”是一个划时代的实践命题,确定了新形势下劳教机关的职责和任务,明确了劳教机关工作价值追求的实现程度、衡量标准。作为承担着对严重违法和轻微犯罪人员实施强制性教育矫正职能的劳教所,如何提高教育挽救质量,落实“首要标准”要求,这已是广大民警特别是领导干部必须正视并回答的课题。对此,笔者立足劳教工作的实践,仅就劳教人员教育挽救内容、方式方法阐释一下粗浅的见解。