D6S2418在中国（汉族）、泰国和德国人群中的遗传多态性

目的获得D6S2418基因座的群体遗传学数据,分析其基因频率在不同群体间的分布情况是否存在差异,并分析其在法医学中的应用价值。方法采用PCR、非变性聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳(PAGE)及银染技术分析中国成都地区汉族、泰国曼谷地区泰国人群以及德国Maint地区德国人群中D6S2418基因座的遗传多态性,获得三个群体D6S2418基因座的群体遗传学数据。结果从300份分别采自成都地区汉族、泰国曼谷地区泰国人群以及德国Maint地区德国人群三个群体的无血缘关系个体的静脉血,共发现9个等位基因,观测到31种基因型。观测杂和度为64%～81%,个人识别机率为84.2%～93.5%,经统计学检验,基因型的频率分布符合Hardy-Weinberg平衡定律。等位基因频率的分布在三个群体间有显著差异。结论D6S2418基因座的个人识别能力高,在法医学个人识别和亲子鉴定应用中有较高价值。     

General systems theory and criminal justice

Criminal justice agencies are organized sequentially — “output” from one agency is “input” to the next — but most scholars argue that criminal justice is not a system in a theoretical sense. In this article, it is argued that general systems theory (GST) reveals important insights into criminal justice structures and functions. Specifically, it is argued that the criminal justice system processes “cases” rather than people, and that the common goal of criminal justice processing is to “close cases so that they stay closed.” It also is argued that processing capacity progressively declines, in that at each system point the subsequent agency cannot input as many cases as the previous agency can output. Each agency therefore experiences “backward pressure” to close cases in order to reduce input to the next agency. Overall, this article highlights that criminal justice agents and agencies are best understood as operating in the context of the larger whole, thus it is concluded that criminal justice is a system in the sense of general systems theory.     

Learning from the Danish case: A comment on Palle Svensson's critique of the Franklin thesis

Abstract. Palle Svensson in this issue of EJPR has objected to the characterisation of Danish voters made by Franklin and others who, in various publications, expounded the thesis that on issues of low salience, referendum votes tend to follow party lines. Svensson finds evidence that the Maastricht Treaty was not an issue of low salience to Danish voters in the ratification referendums conducted there, and gives other details of the evolution of public opinion regarding Europe that clarify the circumstances in which our thesis should apply. In the light of his arguments, this Comment presents a more nuanced version of the thesis that learns from the Danish case, and should be of greater utility than our earlier version in helping to interpret the role of government standing in referendum outcomes.     

The U.S.-Korea conflict over rice liberalization: A Korean perspective

This article argues that Korea should not completely liberalize its rice market. The argument begins from the issue of food-security policy to the contradiction between self-sufficiency and the comparative advantage of the importance of agricultural protection, in light of advanced industrialized nations’ heavy subsidies of their agricultural commodities, including rice, and implicit and explicit trade barriers on Korean exports. The argument emphasizes the importance of self-sufficiency policy for rice in Korea, thus recommending not complete but partial liberalization of the agricultural market, as a condition for Korea’s own self-interest. The argument also emphasizes the importance of a diversified foreign and economic policy for Korea, and thus of forming future security relations with other nations besides the United States.