Language disorders in disruptive behavior disordered homicidal youth.

Eight homicidal youths were assessed for language disorders and psychiatric diagnoses using a battery of standardized language tests and the Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents. Both language disorders and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual III-R psychiatric diagnoses were present in all subjects.     

各国保卫外国政要有绝招

随着多边外交不断展开,各国政要的活动也明显增多,他们穿梭于全球各种场合,竞相展现国家影响力及个人魅力.鲜为人知的是,每逢有外国重要人物到访,也是东道国警卫部门最忙的时候,身怀绝技的顶级保镖们,或防守于领导人周围,或布控于周边要地,或身穿警服神情凝重,或平民打扮暗中盯梢,一举一动都透着神秘色彩.     

Where and When to Spank: A Comparison Between U.S. and Japanese College Students

Although physical punishment has been studied for decades, there are gaps in the literature regarding frequently used form, context, and cross cultural differences. A comparison was made using 227 college students in the United States and Japan, who were presented with four scenarios and surveyed regarding attitudes toward physical punishment, perceptions of appropriate discipline methods, and past experience with physical punishment. Japanese and U.S. respondents reported similar personal experience with physical punishment (Japanese 86%, U.S. 91%). However, U.S. respondents reported a higher likelihood of being hit with an object than did Japanese respondents. For U.S. respondents, the bottom and the hand were the top two sites on the body used for physical punishment, whereas the head and the face were the top two places for the Japanese sample. Unlike U.S. respondents, type of child misbehavior was found to have an impact on Japanese respondents’ views on the appropriate discipline method.     

Senator Opposition to Supreme Court Nominations: Reference Dependence on the Departing Justice

Research indicates that senators evaluate U.S. Supreme Court nominations on two ideological dimensions: the distance between themselves and the nominee, and the potential effect confirmation would have on the Court median. My analysis of nominations from 1968 to 2006 provides evidence that senators are also influenced by the ideological contrast between the nominee and the departing justice.     

West African Voices

A new literary programme has been started in the West AfricanService of the B.B.C., and this article is a reprint of oneof the talks. The Ibo speaker was formerly in the Customs, andqualified as a barrister last November: he is also the authorof numerous poems in English, and of a novel, The Prince ofUtete. The other two are schoolmasters working as Assistantsat the School of Oriental and African Studies. For technicalreasons, the orthography is not quite complete.     

欧洲地方联络代表机构的发展及其运作方式

派驻地方性常设联络代表机构是地方政府管理过程当中比较普遍的一种管理模式.各种形式的常设联络代表机构推动了地方政府与国家乃至超国家实体的联络沟通、决策公关、社会交际和信息资源交换等,在更高层级的政治体系当中致力于实现地方的利益和价值诉求.这就为地方政治发展拓展了新的空间,也在一定程度上对传统的"中央-地方"关系作出了新的推演.     

论政党意识形态结构特征及其功能作用

文章首先分析了政党意识形态的定义和特征,指出政党意识形态是为政党及其所代表的阶级进行辩护的思想意识,是政党对周围世界及其自身的认知体系;在此基础上又分析了政党意识形态的结构层次,指出共产党和社会民主党都属于意识形态内容和层次比较丰富和完整的政党;文章最后分析了政党意识形态的六大功能,指出只有保持政党意识形态的与时俱进,才能充分发挥政党意识形态的导向和凝聚功能,否则,僵化、教条和守旧只能阻止社会的发展和进步。     

Differentiating among racial/ethnic groups and its implications for understanding juvenile justice decision making

Both theory and research have been refined to gain a better understanding of when race and ethnicity matter in justice proceedings. In the present research, this line of inquiry was continued by differentiating among minority youth to assess the extent being African American, Native American, and Asian American influenced juvenile justice decision making and how these effects compared to one another and Whites. Utilizing an interpretation of the symbolic threat thesis that emphasizes stereotyping, the authors anticipated Native Americans to be responded to more severely than African Americans, followed by Asian Americans who were anticipated to be responded to more like Whites. The results indicated partial support for these expectations.     

Reassessing the family-delinquency association: Do family type, family processes, and economic factors make a difference?

The present study drew on four competing theoretical perspectives to examine the relationship between family structure and juvenile delinquency. Using data from the Add Health Study, the authors examined nonserious and serious delinquent behavior across youth from different types of households and also considered how the association between family structure and delinquency might be conditioned by family processes and economic factors. Results from negative binomial regression analyses indicated that, in general, type of household was not a significant predictor of nonserious or serious delinquency. Rather, maternal attachment emerged as the most important determinant of delinquent behavior among youth from all family types. The results are discussed within the context of Hirschi's original interpretation of social control theory and future directions for research are suggested.