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.     

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.     

物权登记中公证书的地位和效力

《中华人民共和国物权法》(草案)对物权的登记进行了规定。第十条规定:“不动产登记,由不动产所在地的登记机构办理。国家对不动产实行统一登记制度。统一登记的范围、登记机构和登记办法,由法律、行政法规规定。”第十一条规定:“当事人申请登记,应当提供权属证书、合同书、法     

论中俄战略协作伙伴关系

中俄战略协作伙伴关系建立十年来,坚持互信共赢、完全平等、不针对第三方的原则,在各个领域得到全面提升.双方这种关系有着坚实稳定的政治、经济基础和广泛的国际共识,形成了堪称睦邻友好典范和大国关系楷模的特色,有着广阔的发展前景.     

Crux of the Volatility of Russia-U.S. Relationship

The relationship between Russia and U.S.is one of the most eye-catching ones in the current world. During the past 7 or 8 years with Presidents Putin and Bush in office,that relationship has undergone frequent changes,from being close to cold. People wouldask,whyistherelationshipsovolatile?