RESTORING FAITH IN GLOBALIZATION

<正>Can China push against the tide of anti-globalization?2016 was a bad year for globalization.No one can doubt that much now.The decision in the UK to exit the European Union—the outcome of a referendum vote on June 23—was the first major shock.The fact that former British Prime Minister David Cameron,the chief architect of the event,resigned immediately after the vote and     

MESSAGES FROM BOAO

正President Xi’s speech portrays an aspiring nation deserving of respect President Xi Jinping’s address at the annual Boao Forum for Asia(BFA)on Hainan Island occurred within a particular domestic and international context.The domestic one is that 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the reform and opening-up era from the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central     

AN ERA OF IMPLEMENTATION

<正>The Communist Party of China leads the nation’s development with a people-centered approach The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China(CPC)has concluded in Beijing and the new CPC leadership was elected.What are the core objectives that the Party with its new leadership after     

Sexual fantasy in paedophile offenders: Can any model explain satisfactorily new findings from a study of Internet and contact sexual offenders?

Purpose. There is widespread acceptance that sexual fantasy plays a role in sexual offences but little clarity as the nature of this relationship. This paper seeks to understand better the role of fantasy in offending behaviour through the study of sexual fantasy in Internet child pornography offenders when compared with contact offenders. Differences in the patterns of sexual fantasy associated with the different offender types are explored in order to understand how fantasy content is associated with contact offences with children and desisting from such direct acting out. Methods. Participants were all convicted of child sexual offences and recruited with the help of the probation and prison services. Out of these, 16 were Internet‐only offenders, 25 were contact offenders with no history of Internet offending and 10 were offenders with a mixed contact and Internet offending history. A variety of self‐completion questionnaires including fantasy were completed on an individual basis together with a detailed interview. Results. The most common sexual fantasies were typical adult‐male heterosexual fantasies though a variety of child‐oriented and other fantasies were also common. Contact offenders reported fewer girl‐oriented sexual fantasies although the groups did not differ in terms of terms of boy‐oriented fantasies. There was evidence that confrontational fantasies were commoner among contact offenders than Internet offenders. There are relationships between early sexual experiences and fantasy but peer sexual contacts seemed to be important rather than sexual abuse. Conclusion. Generally, the contact offenders seem to have less sexual fantasy pertinent to their offending than did Internet offenders. Fantasy deficit may be involved in contact offending against children.     

Developing Conceptualisations of Europeanisation: A Study of Financial Services

In its most explicit form Europeanisation is conceptualised as the process of downloading European Union (EU) directives, regulations and institutional structures to the domestic level. However, this conceptualisation of Europeanisation has been extended in the literature in terms of up-loading to the EU shared beliefs, informal and formal rules, discourse, identities and vertical and horizontal policy transfer. This article undertakes a study of banking, investment and insurance directives to analyse the impact of Europeanisation on the UK financial services sector.     

Public versus private ownership: The federal lands case

“Privatization” of public lands has been urged on the grounds that it will provide a more efficient allocation of the nation's resources. However, there are some public policy objectives which private ownership and free markets are not equipped to achieve. Historically, these objectives have motivated legislation authorizing retention of some land in public ownership. Indeed, land in both forms of ownership is required to achieve a full range of both public and private goods and services. However, since inefficiencies in the allocation of resources will occur under either form of ownership, careful monitoring of economic activities in both sectors is more likely to achieve improvements than arguing for exclusive reliance on only one system of property rights.     

A Taxing Dilemma

Multinational corporations come under scrutiny for alleged tax dodging The issue of taxation seems to be a dry,technical subject.But it is one that people can get extremely emotional about,as some major corporations in Europe and North America have discovered recently.Since the global financial crisis broke out in 2008,the issue of taxes that corporations pay has become a sensitive one.In Europe and