PERCEPTIONS OF BENEFIT FRAUD STAFF IN THE UK: GIVING P.E.A.C.E. A CHANCE?

This article reports a study concerning perceptions of benefit fraud staff and of management concerning their own interviewing techniques and standards, and their views pertaining to a preferred model of interviewing. Interviewing fraud suspects forms an important task performed by Fraud Investigators (FIs) within the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in the UK. Given this significance, it is surprising that there has been little analysis of the skills used to do this task. Current training consists of a course centred on an interviewing framework called the PEACE model, which was originally developed for police use. The research outlined in this paper examined both FIs and their managers’ perceptions and attitudes of the model and of their own practices. It was found that, while there was general support for the model, reservations were voiced over how effective PEACE may actually be in practice. These reservations centred on insufficient time to prepare for investigations along with a perceived inflexibility over the model’s framework. In, addition, it was highlighted that the absence of any national supervisory framework for investigative interviews should give the organization cause for concern in ensuring standards.     

攻坛“外星人”——日本新任首相鸠山由纪夫

2009年9月16日，日本民主党党首鸠山由纪夫就任日本第93届首相并于当晚组阁。出身豪门、素有“外星人”称号的鸠山，作为“自民党统治的终结者”迅速成为内外媒体的关注焦点，而在日本政坛驰骋百年不倒的鸠山家族也再次迎来了他们的光辉时刻。     

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Alexandre A. Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush. Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union: A Revolutionary Strategy for the Colonial World. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1979, Pp. 267.

Natalia Arsiennieva. Mizh bierhami;vybar paiezzii, 1920–1970 (Between the Shores: Selected Poetry, 1920–1970) New York: Byelorussian Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1979. Pp. 350. $15.00

Osyp, Zinkewych, comp. Ukrains'kyipravozakhysnyi rukh: Dokumenty i materiialy kyivs'koi Ukrains'koi Hromads'koi Hrupy Spryiannia vykonanniu Hel'sinks'kykh Uhod. Baltimore, MD: V. Symonenko Smoloskyp Publishers, 1978. Pp. X + 477 $12.75 hardbound; $9.75 paperbound.

Harvey Fireside. Soviet Psychoprisons. Foreword by Zhores Medvedev. New York: Norton, 1979. Pp. 201. $11.95.

Alain Besançon. The Soviet Syndrome. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1978. Pp. 103.

George M. Enteen. The Soviet Scholar‐Bureaucrat: M.N. Pokrovskii and the Society of Marxist Historians. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 236. $15.00.

George Dana Cameron III. The Soviet Lawyer and His System: A Historical and Bibliographical Study (Michigan International Business Studies, No. 14) Ann Arbor, Michigan: Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, The University of Michigan, 1978. Pp. xii, 198. $9.00.

Murray Yanowitch. Social and Economic Inequality in the Soviet Union: Six Studies. White Plains, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1977. Pp. xv, 196.

Alexander Nekrich. Nakazannye narody. New York: Khronika Press, 1978. Pp. 170. $7.00.

Norman M. Naimark. The History of the “Proletariat”: The Emergence of Marxism in the Kingdom of Poland, 1870–1887. Boulder, Colo.: East European Quarterly, 1979. Pp. xvii, 329. $18.00. Distributed by Columbia University Press.

Jan Tomasz Gross. Polish Society Under German Occupation: The Generalgouvernement, 1939–1944. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979. Pp. xviii, 343. $20.00.

János Decsy. Prime Minister Gyula Andrássy's Influence on Habsburg Foreign Policy during the Franco‐German War of 1870–1871. Boulder, Col.: East European Quarterly, 1979. Pp. 177. Distributed by Columbia University Press.

Teresa Rakowska‐Harmstone and Andrew Gyorgy, eds., Communism in Eastern Europe. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1979. Pp. viii, 338. Frantisek Silnitsky, Larisa Silnitsky, Karl Reyman, eds. Communism and Eastern Europe: A Collection of Essays. New York: Karz Publishers, 1979. Pp. xiv, 242. $6.95 paper.     

Dialectics and Transformation: Exploring the International Theory of E. H. Carr

This article examines the appeal of Carr's theory of international relations, which has enjoyed a longevity matched by few other bodies of work in a discipline characterised by faddism. I attribute Carr's success as an international theorist to his subtle use of philosophy, history, and political theory. Carr's holistic and interdisciplinary approach achieves its best expression in his employment of a critical dialectics of international theory in The Twenty Years' Crisis. The article does not confine itself to this element of Carr's writings as I also examine several works, such as The Future of Nations. Independence or Interdependence?, Conditions of Peace, and Nationalism and After,that consider the transformation of the international society. The latter works also employ a dialectic of power and morality in order to envision a world very different from the international system that Carr observed, an international order that approximates the emerging relations among states at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The article concludes with an examination of the role relativism played in Carr's theory scheme and the extent to which his dialectics of utopianism and realism is an important precursor of critical and postmodern theories of international relations.     

专访赞比亚驻华大使努潘多·姆瓦佩

记者：前不久,您刚刚出席了在温州举行的中非中小企业合作论坛,据我们所知这也是您在近三个月内第三次到温州。您对这次论坛总体有什么看法？     

Robert E. Park's congo papers: A gothic perspective on capitalism and imperialism

Revised and expanded version of Re-Reading Robert E. Park: Toward a Gothic Perspective on Capitalism and Imperialism, presented at the 1991 SSSI Stone Symposium, University of California at San Francisco, February 7–9, 1991. The author is indebted to the constructive criticism of Marvin B. Scott and Arthur J. Vidich.