Can the best interests of young people be met in residential care? An Ireland case study

The search for factors essential to the achievement of congruence in residential youth care services in Ireland led to the discovery of five critical success factors, each of which affects all three organizational levels of such services. These critical factors included: needs-led, not regulation-driven, care; senior managers with workforce responsibility require domain expertise; shared vision and purpose across three organizational levels; practice-led planning and service development; and bureaucratic policies and practices that are congruent with corporate parenting obligations to provide developmental care that serves each child's best interests.     

浅谈家庭暴力的救济

家庭暴力是指行为人以殴打、捆绑、残害、强行限制人身自由或其他手段,给其家庭成员的身体、精神等方面造成一定伤害后果的行为,持续性经常性家庭暴力构成虐待。我国立法上对家庭暴力的概念进行了确立,并对其后果进行了定性。然而在实际操作中对家庭暴力救济的现状不尽人意,应建立一套包括自力救济、社会救济、司法救济在内的完整的救济机制,彻底解决家庭暴力问题。     

低标准住宅改造的政府定位与模式选择

对20世纪70-80年代修建的一大批低标准民用住房的改造是当前城市面临的一大任务。本文以北京市为例,结合低标准住房存在的主要问题,分析了对其进行改造的目标和模式选择,并重点论述了政府在这一过程中的作用定位。本文的结论是,在目前的条件下,住房改造需要政府主导,但同时政府应当避免高度行政化的思维取向,更多地选择有管理的市场化的路径。     

Patient safety and quality improvement. Notice of proposed rulemaking

This document proposes regulations to implement certain aspects of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient Safety Act). The proposed regulations establish a framework by which hospitals, doctors, and other health care providers may voluntarily report information to Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), on a privileged and confidential basis, for analysis of patient safety events. The proposed regulations also outline the requirements that entities must meet to become PSOs and the processes for the Secretary to review and accept certifications and to list PSOs. In addition, the proposed regulation establishes the confidentiality protections for the information that is assembled and developed by providers and PSOs, termed "Patient safety work product" by the Patient Safety Act, and the procedures for the imposition of civil money penalties for the knowing or reckless impermissible disclosure of patient safety work product.     

China’s Experience in Legislation on Special Economic Zones

Since adoption of the policy of reform and opening up in 1978, China, in efforts to attract foreign investment and introduce advanced technologies into the country,     

Pro-poor budget analysis of Kenya's free primary education policy

This practical note outlines Concern's approach to pro-poor budget analysis using the case of the Kenya Free Primary Education (FPE) policy. Analysis conducted on the outcomes of the FPE policy for Nairobi's urban slum-based poor suggests that the policy is not being implemented evenly within the city. The reasons stem from poor allocation and planning approaches, to political interference and unwillingness of teachers to work in slum-based schools. These have the unintended effect of increasing inequities for the urban poor, the reverse of the policy intention. The note outlines the pitfalls and practicalities of conducting this type of analysis.     

对中国民法学学术路向的初步思考——过分侧重制度性研究的缺陷及其克服

我国以往的民法学研究,呈现出的特点之一就是过分侧重制度性研究。这一研究模式有其存在的必要性,同时也存在一定的缺陷。未来的制度性研究应当是采用了体系化思考方法的制度性研究,应当是面向其他学科的研究方法和研究成果开放的制度性研究,而非单纯采用法律的逻辑分析方法的制度性研究。     

Understanding dynamic risk factors for violence

ABSTRACT

Recent years have seen a consensus emerge regarding the dynamic risk factors that are associated with future violence. These risk factors are now routinely assessed in structured violence risk assessment instruments. They provide a focus for treatment in structured group programmes. However, relatively little attention has been paid to risk-related theoretical issues, whether these dynamic risk factors are causally related or simply correlates of violent offending, or the extent to which they change as a consequence of treatment. More challenging is the lack of evidence to suggest that changes in these dynamic risk factors actually result in reductions in violent offending. In this paper we consider the meaning of the term dynamic risk, arguing that only those factors that, when changed, reduce the likelihood of violent recidivism, can be considered to be truly dynamic. We conclude that few of the violence risk factors commonly regarded as dynamic fulfil this requirement. There is a need to think more critically about assessment findings and treatment recommendations relating to dynamic risk, and conduct research that establishes, rather than assumes, that certain dynamic risk factors are directly related to violence. Some suggestions for advancing knowledge and practice are provided.     

Predictors of Women’s Same-Sex Partner Violence Perpetration

The present study examined family of origin, individual characteristics, and intimate relationship variables as predictors of women’s reports (N?=?209; M?=?29.5 years) of physical aggression toward their current or most recent same-sex partner in the past year. Participants completed measures that assessed a series of family of origin, individual, and intimate relationship variables. Results of a least-squares regression revealed that identifying as heterosexual (as opposed to lesbian), higher levels of relationship fusion, more experiences of psychological aggression victimization, and having more prior physically aggressive relationships were associated with more frequent perpetration of partner violence. Results of exploratory models testing whether internalized homophobia or dominance/accommodation were indirectly related to physical aggression perpetration revealed that fusion (i.e., enmeshment with one’s partner) mediated the relationship between internalized homophobia and perpetration of partner violence. Similarly, fusion mediated the association between dominance/accommodation and the perpetration of partner violence. Findings underscore the importance that individual and relationship characteristics have in predicting partner violence perpetration in women’s same-sex relationships.     

当前我省医疗纠纷审理情况的调研报告

本文以医疗纠纷这一民生热点问题为切入点,总结了近年来我省医疗纠纷审理的基本情况,重点分析了医疗纠纷审理中常见的三大突出问题,即：法律适用＂二元化＂、医疗事故鉴定和医疗差错鉴定并存、医疗纠纷应否适用《中华人民共和国消费者权益保护法》（以下简称《消法》）。《报告》从平衡医患双方利益的角度出发,提出了相应的对策和建议。