关于对外省籍罪犯实施社区矫正的调研报告

2003年7月，社区矫正试点工作正式启动，至2009年在全国全面试行。社区矫正工作取得了良好的法律效果和社会效果，积累了大量的成功经验。然而，在试行工作中，也存在着一些困难和问题，其中对外省籍罪犯如何适用并执行社区矫正的问题逐渐显现。     

SHOULD JUDGES CLOSE THE GATE ON PAS AND PA?

Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation are evolving clinical concepts. They are controversial. Their limits, the limits of the legal system, and recent developments in the use and admissibility of expert evidence call into question the appropriateness of their use within the trial process.     

Linking context and strategy in donor support for decentralisation: a diagnostic framework

International donors, long‐standing supporters of decentralisation reforms in developing countries, often face the challenge of aligning programme assistance to the great variety of country governance settings in which many operate. This article presents a framework for assessing the implications of governance and institutional context for a range of programming challenges, with particular reference to the challenge of decentralised programming. The framework has three conceptual steps. Country governance and institutional change environments are first described in terms of how enabling governance capacities are for decentralised programming, and how rapid and predictable the rate of institutional change is. Second, these environmental considerations are associated with overall assistance modalities of donors, in areas such as the type of partners sought and interventions selected. Third, a range of options concerning the aims, scope and extent of decentralising programming are reviewed and linked to the diagnostic framework above. The framework is broadly derived from organisational contingency theory, which it is argued has been relatively neglected in the study of development administration due to a preponderance of analysis based on single‐case studies. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Progress in American Policing? Reviewing the National Reviews

This essay uses three publications—the 1967 President's Crime Commission report on police , The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society; the National Research Council's review of research on policing , Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing: The Evidence; and David Weisburd and Anthony A. Braga's edited collection , Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives —as reference points for reflecting on the extent to which the American police institution has moved toward a progressive and professional ideal over the past forty years. I argue that unless the scope and complexity of the policing function is more fully taken into account, and unless the causes of crime and disorder and the police role in controlling and preventing them are reconsidered, the ideals of police reform will remain elusive.     

关于北京市民间公益性法制宣传与法律服务机构的调研报告

法制宣传和法律服务是依法治国的重要组成部分，在维护社会稳定和构建和谐社会中发挥着重要作用。随着市场经济的不断发展，我国社会结构发生了深刻变化，各种民间组织大量涌现，民间公益性法制宣传与法律服务机构应运而生并呈现出较快的发展势头。为进一步掌握我市民间公益性法制宣传与法律服务机构现状和发展前景，近期我们委托零点调查公司通过走访、电话访问及二手资料检索等形式，对全市民间公益性法制宣传与法律服务机构的现状及运转情况进行了初步调研。现将情况报告如下：     

Epistemic contestation and interagency conflict: The challenge of regulating investment funds

Scholarship on regulating global finance emphasizes the importance of national and bureaucratic interests, but less attention has been devoted to epistemic sources of regulatory conflict. We address this by analyzing the failure of regulators to agree tougher rules for large investment funds after the 2008 crisis. The article suggests this outcome was the result of epistemic contestation between prudential regulators and securities regulators, rooted in divergent interpretive “frames.” We show that US and EU prudential regulators pushed for entity-based regulation of investment funds by escalating the issue to global standard-setting bodies. But this was successfully resisted by securities regulators that exercised epistemic authority through recursive practices—appeals to expertise, jurisdictional claims, and alliance building—to defend their transaction-based approach. The article demonstrates how an interpretivist perspective can provide new insights into inter-agency conflict and regulatory disputes in other policy fields.