出资制度的法哲学思考

出资制度是公司设立中一个极为重要的组成部分,各国立法均给予了高度的关注,纵观公司设立 的法制发展历史,无不内蕴着公司自身的运营效率和相关交易者的安全的基本价值取向,在分析了这两个价值取 向在公司出资立法的体现基础上,指出我国立法的偏颇及新定位,这对于理性地建立中国公司出资制度有着极为 重要的法律意义。     

对诱惑侦查法治化的思考

诱惑侦查在追诉隐蔽性、无被害人犯罪中发挥了重要作用,其合法性为许多国家所认可。我国在司法实践中已自发应用诱惑侦查,但由于缺乏相关法律规定,公民的人权不能得到保障。因此,对于可能损害国家形象和极易侵犯公民人权的诱惑侦查,不应让其继续游离于法律规制之外,而应从适用范围、适用条件、审批程序等方面对其进行规制,以将其纳入法治化轨道。     

讲述契约的另一半故事--《性契约》介绍

20世纪70年代以来,全球政治实践的需要和政治理论的发展使契约论再次成为讨论焦点并延续至今,不同的利益群体都从各自立场对契约论进行发展以得到合法性,契约论的一些成分甚至被原先反对它的马克思主义者和女性主义者所认同、发展和使用。1988年6月,卡罗尔·帕特曼(CarolPate-m     

Surveillance of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies in medicolegal autopsies in Finland--monitoring early changes in HIV-seropositivity among risk groups and average population.

In order to cooperate with voluntary screening programs aimed at the surveillance of the HIV epidemic in Finland, we have studied medicolegal autopsies for HIV antibodies since 1986 using an enzyme immunoassay on postmortem sera. The investigation covered 47.4% and 39.2%, respectively, of all deaths under the age of 65 years in the metropolitan areas of Helsinki and Turku--two cities on the densely populated southern coast of Finland from which most HIV infections have thus far been detected. Nine HIV-positive cases (0.12%) were detected among the 7305 medicolegal autopsies tested in 1986 to 1990. This figure is higher than the prevalence of 0.01 to 0.03% in voluntary screening programs for the general population would suggest. Seven of our cases had previously tested positive, and two were previously unknown cases, indicating that people at high risk are clustered in the medicolegal autopsy series. Of the six cases in an early stage of infection, three committed suicide suggesting the importance of HIV-screening in suicide cases in tracing symptomless HIV carriers. Five of the cases were detected in 1990, a year when the number of new HIV infections had more than doubled compared to the previous two years. This suggests that testing of medicolegal autopsies as surrogate tests for the population gives useful information even in low-prevalence areas like Finland. Such testing has none of the ethical problems of many other back-up surveys, and may be particularly sensitive to early changes in epidemiology.     

Should Abused Women's Reports of Partner Substance Abuse Be Accepted as Valid?

Current research suggests that a husband's substance abuse is correlated with severity of physical abuse and the woman's decision to leave a violent situation. Often, only the battered woman's report of abuse is available. This study compares women's reports of their partners' substance use/abuse with their partners' report using a brief measure of polydrug and alcohol abuse, the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI) and the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS). Data were analyzed for 25 recovery couples and 25 nonrecovery couples. The correlations for all 50 couples between the male's reported use and the female's report of her partner's use on the SASSI and the CTS were significant on all but one of the CTS scales. They ranged on SASSI from .73 to .33 and from .31 to .06 on the CTS. This suggests that the SASSI and possibly the CTS could be used as valuable tools for assessing women's reports of their partner's substance use/abuse.     

Predicting patrol officer performance from a psychological assessment battery: A predictive validity study

The psychological assessment battery is an integral part of the selection process used to select patrol officer applicants. Unlike all other procedures used in the selection process, the psychological assessment has not been adequately validated. The purpose of this study was an attempt to provide validation data for a psychological assessment battery. The battery consisted of the Nelson-Denny, Shipley-Hartford, MMPI, and the Motivational Analysis Test (MAT). Performance measures included various measures of training academy performance and field training performance. A stepwise regression and MANOVA/Discriminant Analysis indicated that the psychological tests did predict performance, although an exact predictive equation could not be developed due to the high intercorrelations between predictor variables. This research was sponsored in part by a grant from the School of Applied Arts and Technology, Southwest Texas State University.