PROFILE: CHILD CUSTODY MEDIATION SERVICES IN CALIFORNIA SUPERIOR COURTS

California is now in its 11th year of mandatory child custody mediation, with a current yearly case volume statewide estimated at 65,494. This article profiles the variations in programs and mediation styles in 56 of the state's 58 Superior Courts. Two research studies provide the basis for the information on program structures, case activity, procedures, agreement formats, recommendations, facilities, security, and fees.     

论刑事立法方法

<正> 在执法环境和司法人员素质这些外在因素相同的条件下,刑事法律效能的高低主要取决于刑事立法本身的因素,即指导立法的政策思想是否适当以及立法方法是否科学。在刑事政策(这也是需要研究的重大课题)被认为适当的前提下,立法方法的重要性便突出起来。刑事立法方法是我国刑法理论研究中亟待拓荒的一块领地。《刑法》颁行10余年来实施成就显著,为更好地适应社会主义商品经济发展和改革开放的新形势,有些章节条款需要修改和补     

《拉丁美洲标准刑法典》(1971年)

<正> 第一篇刑法的适用第一章刑法的领域范围第1条本法适用于在其领域内和属于其管辖的其他地域内所实施的犯罪行为。第2条本法同样适用于在国外对危害本国内部或外部安全、经济利益或公众健康所实施的犯罪行为。本法也适用于本国公职人员不论属何公民身份在国外所实施的侵犯国家管理的犯罪行为。第3条本法还适用于: 1.发生于停泊在国外的本国商业性或私人的注册船舶或航空器上,且未在实施地受到指控的犯罪行为。     

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.     

一部有理论深度的新书——评《法人犯罪与刑事责任》

<正> 我国1979年颁布的《刑法》和传统的刑法理论,为改革开放、促进社会发展起了重要保障作用。但随着法人犯罪的大量出现和日趋严重的现实状况,降低了刑法保护社会经济发展的作用,也给刑法理论工作者带来了困惑。基于不同出发点的法人犯罪肯定说和法人犯罪否定说的论争,无论在理论界和实践部门都有     

Fatalities in west Austrian prisons

The purpose of this study is to review 23 causes of death that have occurred in Western-Austrian prisons from 1974 to 1989. The majority of them (11 cases) were due to suicides. Among 9 cases of natural death there was a 25 years old man, who died of an unknown purulent meningoencephalitis. Two drunken prisoners had not been supervised and therefore died of alcohol poisoning. In one case the police jail physician did not recognize an epidural hematoma.