The Relationship Between Religious and Spiritual Factors and the Perpetration of Intimate Personal Violence

Despite some understanding of general correlates and possible antecedents to intimate partner violence (IPV) within the Christian community, the impact of religious and spiritual factors tends to be confounded by other factors and is often misjudged. Archival data from Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) were used to examine the impact of nine religious and spiritual factors on the probability of IPV perpetration by males, aged 18 to 26, who nominally classified themselves as Catholic, Protestant, or Christian. Logistic regression results indicated that IPV perpetration could not be adequately predicted from the religious and spiritual factors. Given the geographic breadth and the size of the Add Health sample, no finding of a predictive model for Christian male-perpetrated IPV challenges the paradigm that religious and spiritual factors should be overtly addressed in faith-based batterers’ programs targeting young adult males.     

坚持科学发展 促进社会和谐——学习四川省委第九次党代会精神的体会

学习贯彻中共四川省省委第九次党代会提出的"坚持科学发展,构建和谐四川"的会议精神,就要统筹规划,协调发展;要融入群众,主导发展;要做好实事,和谐发展。     

Bringing Wealth to Poetry County

SUIYANG County in north- ern Guizhou is known in the region as an incubator of poets. County records compiled from the early Yuan Dynasty (279-68) until today show that a great many Chinese poets emerged from Suiyang. Since the found- ing of the people…     

加大官员腐败成本的几点思考

腐败成本直接影响到腐败的动机和行为。我国腐败成本较低,深化反腐败斗争必须加大对腐败者的刑事惩罚力度,不断完善公务员管理制度,提高腐败的法律成本、政治成本、经济成本和名誉成本。     

收入风险更替与社会保障的重心转移

社会保障是现代社会分担公民收入风险的保护机制,但是在人类社会发展过程中,由于产业结构的转变导致不同时期的风险侧重点不同,因而社会保障的重心也在发生着历史性和阶段性的转移。这种转移一方面导致了社会保障的制度升级和创新,另一方面也促使社会保障的职能发生改变,从最初的工具性职能、经由权利性职能、最终上升到人力资本建设职能,从而实现了社会保障作为促进人的发展的最高原则。     

民国民法中的佃:传统制度的现代法律实践——以新繁县民国司法档案为佐证

中国传统社会中的"佃"在近代法律转型中纳入到西方民法体系之中,但由于中西法律概念的差异和中国特殊的法律背景,中国传统的"佃"在法律上游离于物权和债权之间,从确认为物权制度中的永佃权到逐渐被适用于债权法中的租赁契约。"佃"所涉及的押租和转租由于已成为地方习惯广泛存在且在一定程度上符合当时的经济环境,故虽为法律所禁止,但在司法实践中则被基层法院所默许。     

Anticorruption agencies: expressive,constructivist and strategic uses

This article explores the reasons for the introduction of anticorruption agencies of a specific type in Eastern Europe. It is argued that one of the important functions of these agencies—which are stronger on information gathering, coordination and strategy rather than on investigation of concrete cases—is to give to the government some leverage over the anticorruption discourse. Presenting the anticorruption commissions and agencies as (discourse-controlling) instruments gives an answer to the troubling question why governing parties are at all interested in the introduction of such bodies. Apart from instrumentalization in political discourse, anticorruption bodies in Eastern Europe have had other effects as well. As shown in the Baltic case, institutional engineering provides for a brief window of opportunity during which political forces committed to integrity could gain the upper hand. The problem in Eastern Europe, however, is not the lack of such windows of opportunities—it is more the lack of really committed political forces capable of continuous and consistent anticorruption effort.