Beliefs About Wife Beating Among Arab Men from Israel: The Influence of Their Patriarchal Ideology

Despite the recent increase in public and professional interest in the problem of wife beating in Arab society, in Israel, and in the rest of the Arab world, there is a serious lack of empirical research on different dimensions of the problem in those societies. This paper presents the results of a survey conducted among a systematic random sample of 362 Arab husbands from Israel, in an attempt to examine the contribution of patriarchal ideology toward explaining their beliefs about wife beating. Although about 58% of the participants indicated that there is no excuse for a man to beat his wife, 15–62% still justified wife beating on certain occasions (e.g., adultery, failure to obey husbands, disrespect for parents and relatives). In addition, although the participants tended to perceive abusive and violent husbands as responsible for their behavior, 52% still expressed understanding of that behavior and, on some occasions, 23–43% even blamed the wife for violence against her. Regression and multiple regression analyses revealed that over and above the participants' age and level of education, their masculine sex-role stereotypes, negative and traditional attitudes toward women, nonegalitarian marital role expectations, and familial patriarchal beliefs were the most significant predictors of beliefs about wife beating. Implications of the results and limitations of the study are also discussed.     

试论经侦协作机制

经济犯罪侦查协作制度是打击经济犯罪的社会需要与经济犯罪侦查管辖制度之间矛盾的产物 ,当前我国的经侦协作已经取得了一些成绩 ,但也存在一些问题。本文探讨了如何从经侦协作制度、机制、内容上对现有经侦协作机制实行优化。     

In Pursuit of the Public Interest

What does the injunction “serve the public interest” really mean for public managers, and why is it important? By way of an answer, this analysis systematizes different perspectives on the public interest and offers a multifaceted formulation of the public manager’s duty. It is a process involving the exploration of two concerns—democracy and mutuality—in the current time frame and two others—sustainability and legacy—in the future time frame.     

努力提高党构建社会主义和谐社会的能力

不断提高构建社会主义和谐社会的能力是当前和今后一个时期加强党的执政能力建设的主要任务之一。在我国当前经济和社会发展面临诸多新情况新问题下,迫切要求我们党努力提高构建和谐社会的能力,在激发社会创造活力、管理社会事务、协调利益关系、处理人民内部矛盾、开展群众工作、维护社会稳定等方面不断创新,努力形成全体人民各尽所能、各得其所而又和谐相处的社会发展局面。     

试论西安城市文化特点及其建设

城市文化决定着一个城市市民的行为方式与城市特色。西安城市文化有汉唐文化的显著特点。文化特点是西安发展得天独厚的一大优势,是西安发展的一块基石。     

Family Violence, Anger Expression Styles, and Adolescent Dating Violence

How partner violence is transferred across generations is relatively unexplored. This paper proposes that anger expression style (constructive, destructive direct, destructive indirect) mediates the relationship between exposure to family violence and dating violence perpetration by adolescents. Data are from 1,965 completed self-administered questionnaires given to eighth- and ninth-grade students in a primarily rural county in North Carolina in 1994. Results varied by gender and type of exposure to family violence. For females, destructive direct and destructive indirect anger expression styles mediated the relationship between experiencing family violence and dating violence perpetration. For males, this relationship was mediated primarily by destructive direct anger expression style. The association between witnessing family violence and dating violence perpetration for females was mediated by destructive direct anger expression style only. Witnessing family violence was not associated with dating violence perpetration for males, and therefore could not be mediated. This study suggests that adolescents exposed to family violence learn anger expression styles that put them at risk of being perpetrators of dating violence. Further research is needed to identify other mediators that explain how partner violence is transferred across generations.     

On Giving Legal Form Its Due. A Study in Legal Theory

Abstract.  The four theses of this paper are: (1) that an appropriate organizational form is used to design, define, and organize a functional unit of a legal system, (2) that the functional units of a legal system, contrary to the emphasis in Hart and Kelsen, consist of far more than rules, and include institutions, interpretive and other methodologies, sanctions and remedies, and more, (3) that frontal and systematic study of the forms of these units is a major avenue for advancing understanding of them as duly organized wholes, and, (4) that such study reveals that much credit is due these forms, along with complementary material or other components of the units, for values realized through law.     

我国的资本控制：现实挑战与未来发展

目前我国资本外逃的严重性要求我国仍需保持较严格的资本控制。这一现象可运用蒙代尔-弗莱明模型所引申的“不可能三角”理论来解释。资本和金融账户项目开放是中国经济改革的一个目标,但在开放前仍需满足许多条件和进行政策制度的转变。