利用影响力受贿罪的理论困境及破解

在我国法律语境下,受贿罪的实质是＂权钱交易＂,即国家工作人员利用其自身的权力和请托人进行财物交换的行为,此处的权力应仅限于国家的公权力,不应扩大到影响力,而且利用公权力的行为人应与公权力的拥有者相统一。利用影响力受贿罪不符合受贿罪的本质特征,与传统的受贿罪理论存在冲突,应借鉴《联合国反腐败公约》之规定,将利用影响力受贿罪定位为利用影响力交易罪。     

行贿意愿差异与大湾区廉政合作治理:基于A市与香港的比较研究

粤港澳大湾区各城市在社会环境上的差异,既是廉政建设区域间合作的挑战,也是机遇。在不同的社会背景下,人们对腐败的认知和接受程度不同,这在很大程度上通过行贿意愿的差异呈现。因此,了解社会环境对行贿意愿的影响,不仅有助于制定行之有效的廉政治理策略,也凸显不同地区之间信息交流和治理合作的重要性。那么,在不同的社会场景下,人们的行贿意愿会有怎样的差异?受到哪些社会环境因素的影响?行贿意愿差异的比较研究对廉政合作治理具有什么理论和政策涵义?新制度主义理论为回答这些问题提供了有益的启发。2019年在香港与大湾区A城市所作的问卷调查为不同地区相异的社会条件下的行贿意愿差异提供了分析依据。研究结果表明,在行贿场景所预示的社会条件发生变化时,市民行贿的意愿也随之变化。这种变化受到制度环境因素和社会环境因素两方面的影响。因此,在香港与大湾区其他城市社会条件不尽相同、而经济和社会交往又不断增加的情况下,如何抑制跨境贿赂是廉政合作治理必须面对的重要问题。     

论利用影响力受贿罪司法认定中的几个问题

利用影响力受贿罪是《中华人民共和国刑法修正案（七）》中的新增罪名,虽然其在犯罪构成上与斡旋受贿行为有相似性,但在具体理解上却有明显的区别。利用影响力受贿罪的犯罪主体不仅包括了近亲属还包括了“其他”密切关系人,在近亲属的理解上应当采取民事关系认定中的广义概念,在其他密切关系人的认定上要结合客观条件具体判断,做到主客观相统一。在判断行为人是否利用影响力时,应按照一般人的标准进行事前判断,在影响力对象的判断上需要结合具体情况具体分析。     

我国公民参与公共决策的问题探究

公民参与公共决策是公民个人或组织通过直接或间接方式影响公共政策制定的行为,其目的是实现公共资源的有效配置,达到公共利益的最大化、合理化。随着市场经济和民主政治的发展,公民主体意识、利益意识和自主意识逐渐形成,公民不再只是被动地接受政府所提供的公共产品和公共服务,还会就公共产品和服务的质量提出自己的意见或建议。公民在公共决策中的主体地位日益凸现。因此,公共决策中的公民参与已成为政府和公民普遍关注的问题。本文探讨了我国公民参与公共决策的必要性,分析了公民参与公共决策所面临的问题与困境,并提出一些建议和措施,旨在为公民参与公共决策提供借鉴。     

Corruption in a non-corrupt country: what does corruption look like in Finland?

ABSTRACT

Finland is usually considered a country where corruption is rare, and this impression is reinforced by the good results that it has achieved in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). The present study describes and assesses Finnish bribery legislation, as well as a number of recent judgments handed down by Finnish courts. The legislation is quite fragmented, consisting of some nine sections in three different chapters of the Criminal Code. The bribery cases heard by the Supreme Court mainly deal with quite small-scale bribery, such as where a public official has accepted restaurant services, trips or other benefits from private companies. However, in the last few years, the courts have also had to consider some larger-scale instances of bribery, where persons working for Finnish companies have been suspected of bribing foreign public officials. The article also takes up match-fixing and election funding and their connections to bribery.     

商业贿赂犯罪构成的若干新问题研究

商业贿赂犯罪是指单位或者个人为了购买或者销售商品,给予对方单位或者个人以财物的行为。但是在目前的刑事立法中,涉及商业贿赂犯罪的罪名过于分散,而且主体和对象界定都存在一系列问题,因此,建议在《刑法》中增设商业受贿罪和商业行贿罪,同时明确侦办权限,以构建科学的商业贿赂犯罪预防与治理机制。     

医疗卫生领域商业贿赂犯罪治理浅析

医疗卫生领域商业贿赂犯罪严重危害卫生事业的健康发展.当前,医疗卫生领域商业贿赂案件呈现新的特点.对已查处的商业贿赂犯罪进行实证分析,探讨案件发生的深层次原因,进而探索完善我国治理医疗卫生领域商业贿赂犯罪的制度.     

Economic efficiency in the provision of legal services: The private practitioner and the law centre

This paper seeks to examine the efficiency of the provision of legal services by alternative institutional modes of supply. Using a sample of unfair dismissal cases handled by a private practitioner and a law centre, an analysis of inputs and outputs was carried out. The objective of this analysis was to try to determine whether any systematic differences in these variables could be detected between the two legal modes. Although our sample size does not permit the drawing of broad generalizations, the results do represent a first step towards a full assessment of legal services supplied. There are important policy implications which could be drawn from this study regarding the mode of provision which the government should favour in maintaining or extending the availability of public funding for legal services.     

论公私合作伙伴关系在我国的实践及其法律框架构建

自1992年在英国正式问世以来,公私合作伙伴关系(PPP)已成为许多国家政府实现经济目标及提升公共服务水平的核心理念和措施之一。尽管PPP在中国实践中遭遇到某些制度性困惑,但其在中国的发展正当其时,前景广阔,是中国公用事业领域改革必选的制度安排之一。PPP法律框架的建立必须遵守透明、公正和长期承诺的原则。     

CITIZEN RATINGS OF THE POLICE: The Difference Contact Makes

Recent surveys repeatedly indicate that the public holds favorable attitudes toward the police. This analysis suggests positive public evaluations of the police may be in part the result of citizen satisfaction with police actions in handling specific incidents. Citizen-police contacts are found to be relatively common, and in the majority of these contacts, citizens are found to rate police actions favorably. Four types of citizen-police contacts are analyzed: contacts resulting from victimizations, assistances provided by the police, stops initiated by police, and citizen calls to the police for information. Contact type alone is found to have relatively little influence on citizen evaluations of the police services provided to their neighborhoods. But citizen satisfaction with police handling of contacts has a stronger impact, which appears to vary with contact type.     

Legal Aid in the Eye of a Storm: Rationing, Contracting, and a New Institutionalism

This article discusses possible rationales underlying a legal aid system through an articulation of theories of distribution in the legal services market, considers the idea of prioritization and planning or, in the political vernacular, rationing of public funding, and addresses the impact of economic and social theories of the professions on legal aid structures. Finally, the emerging concepts of 'new-institutionalism' and 'new public management' are introduced to indicate the organizational and sociological complexity of reforming the legal services market. Each of these threads illustrate competing values and institutional influence on publicly funded legal services. Bureaucratic rules mix with professional and economic incentives to articulate entitlement to public money in a predominantly private forum. Drawing on research in the field of rationing health care, sociological and economic work on legal services, and organizational theories, it will be demonstrated that conceptual, policy, and research tools need to play closer attention to this competition of values.     

“What works” with mentally disordered offenders

Treatment and rehabilitation of mentally disordered offenders has traditionally been a function of high security hospitals, but is increasingly based in community settings. Evidence for the effectiveness of psychological interventions remains scarce, and for secure hospitals, is limited to demonstrations of short-term effects using a conventional range of behavioural and cognitive–behavioural procedures. Some findings support the use of directive community programmes in meeting the needs of public safety and improved reintegration of the individual. Long-term services are required, and more complex psychological contributions are needed to meet the multiple needs of this client group.     

商业贿赂犯罪长效控制机制思考

商业贿赂是中国社会转型时期经济腐败现象最为重要的形式之一。我国为治理商业贿赂而全面启动的专项斗争产生了积极的效果。然而，构建于传统的、以“二元论”企业角色观为基础。以作为受贿主体的国家工作人员为规制重点的商业贿赂犯罪控制模式。并未切中商业贿赂犯罪“上游犯罪”之根本。具有一定的局限性。以“一元论”企业角色观为基础，以企业社会责任为视角，以作为行贿主体的企业及其工作人员为规制重点，提出商业贿赂治理新思路，并以此构建中国反商业贿赂长效机制，可以弥补传统治理商业贿赂思路的局限性。     

中日刑法中的商业贿赂犯罪之比较

中日两国对于打击商业贿赂犯罪都十分重视,但两国刑法对于商业贿赂罪的规定则不尽相同。日本刑法典中仅规定有关公务员的贿赂犯罪,商业贿赂方面的犯罪则规定在《商法》等附属刑法之中。同时,日本刑法对商业贿赂犯罪的成立条件做了比公务员贿赂犯罪更严格的限定。日本刑法的这种规定方式对我国商业贿赂犯罪的立法及解释都具有一定的借鉴价值。     

Regulatory Capitalism and the UK Labour Government's Reregulation of Commissioning in the English National Health Service

Today, policy analysts and regulatory governance scholars are sceptical about the capacity of the regulatory state hypothesis to describe change at the institutional level. For many, the hypothesis is a convenient oversimplification that fails to account for the hybridity of institutional arrangements within individual policy sectors and also for the divergence of reform trajectories across different national and sector‐based policy contexts. This article assesses the influence of the key themes of the regulatory state on the UK Labour government's reregulation of National Health Service (NHS) commissioning organizations. Following the critics, it argues that these themes are only partially evident in the programme. While the government has codified previously informal relationships with policies like Patient Choice and has also subjected commissioning organizations to metaregulatory techniques, its reforms have neither displaced public ownership and the direct supply of commissioning services with markets and new mechanisms for rule making and standard setting, nor have the reforms divided labour within the state by creating an independent agency to regulate NHS commissioning organizations via technocratic means. Under the reforms, NHS commissioning continues to take place within a structure of bureaucratic relationships. However, the article suggests that the hybridity of regulatory techniques at work within the UK Labour government's reregulation of NHS commissioning lends weight to the claim that the current era is one of regulatory capitalism. It concludes with a discussion of the consequences of this finding for the public policy and regulatory governance literatures.     

论高校贿赂犯罪的侦防对策

贿赂犯罪作为一个古老的社会现象,在中国市场经济日益发达的今天似乎愈演愈烈,甚至渗入被视为象牙塔的教育领域,成为现代法治社会的一大毒瘤,严重影响了创建和谐社会的宏伟目标。笔者在分析中国高等教育系统贿赂犯罪的现状与特点基础上,拟就如何采取侦查和预防对策,提出自己的见解,以期有效地控制高校领域的贿赂犯罪.     

Off with their Heads: The Need to Criminalize some forms of Scientific Misconduct

Improvement in policy for the management of scientific misconduct has been slow. While assurance of due process at the ORI level is now in place, similar protections at the institutional level and institutional responsibility for further oversight and a workplace where the responsible conduct of research can be practiced have not yet been addressed. In contrast, policy regarding human subject protection has evolved rapidly to reflect firmer norms, with decisive priority given to subject protection over scientific or social needs. Perhaps because scientific misconduct policy has the potential to harm the careers of individual scientists and harms to individual subjects are thought to be indirect, the scientific community has been successful in blocking every move toward testing more rigorous regulation. The mantras that scientists can discipline their own, and the price of competitive science is some level of scientific misconduct are not persuasive. The standards by which science is judged should not be an exception to those governing others who deal with the public's money and have a duty to the public interest.     

论我国贿赂犯罪的立法对《联合国反腐败公约》的应对--以国际刑法的国内化为视角

在我国缔约的<联合国反腐败公约>中,贿赂犯罪的规定与我国现行刑法的规定是不同的.现行刑法与<联合国反腐败公约>的相关规定的差异主要表现在贿赂的范围、贿赂外国公职人员或者国际公共组织官员犯罪与受贿罪、行贿罪的构成要件三个方面.完善相应的现行刑法的规定,是我国必须履行的国际法义务,也是司法实践的需要.     

Evaluating small town policing: Methodological issues

This research provides helpful information for those who evaluate police performance. While researchers commonly espouse the merit of using more than one form of research police evaluation often involves citizen surveys exclusively. Demographic factors and the “halo effect” can influence police evaluations, particularly in rural communities which are especially vulnerable to political agendas and personal relationships that can skew survey data. Our research finds that while citizens generally evaluate police favorably, a high percentage of “don't know” responses suggest that citizens are not prepared to evaluate all aspects of police services. Furthermore, police evaluator observation reveals that police services were inadequate, both within the organization of the department and the patrol practices. Finally, some questions, not traditionally included in police evaluation surveys reveal high levels of fear among citizens. These inconsistencies question the exclusive use of citizen surveys and may indicate indirect evidence of a “halo effect”. A conscientious effort to combine quantitative and qualitative measures may better capture relevant information concerning the quality of police services. Authors' Note: Loreen Wolfer, Ph.D., and Thomas E. Baker, M.S., M.ED., are Assistant Professors in the Department of Sociology/Criminal Justice, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 18510. This research was supported by a federal grant, number, ORI# FBI ID # PA 040-2500, U.S. Department of Justice (Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services (COPS). Points of view or opinions expressed here do not necessarily represent the official position of U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice or the COPS office     

Attitudes to corruption amongst Russian police officers and trainees

The police are perceived by overseas agencies to play a key role in thedevelopment of democratic states. In the Russian Federation, the promotion of trust between the police and the public has been hampered by the fact that police are perceived by the public, and reported by the media, to be open to using their positions at work to obtain money, goods or services. Survey research about beliefs and values concerning corruption was conductedamongst students and serving officers attending a police institute, whichprovides the most promising Russian police recruits with a four-year higher education leading to the rank of ``officer'. From these ranks will come those police who are likely in future to shape both policy and institutional values. The data provided evidence that ``fast-streamed' police recruits think that corruption is often justifiable and/or morally acceptable underparticular circumstances, or for particular goals.