The effect of offenders' sex on reporting crimes to the police

This article examines the difference in victims' reporting behavior regarding crimes committed by males and by females. The authors expect that victims of female offenders are less likely to report to the police than victims of male offenders because of differences in the victim-offender relationship as well as in the victim's sex. With recent developments in Bayesian statistics, new tools have become available that enable the direct evaluation of researchers' expectations. All cases of robbery with assault from the National Crime Victimization Survey have been investigated (n = 478). Findings reveal that female offenders are underreported compared with male offenders and that this can be explained by the victim characteristics but only in combination with the offender's sex.     

论行政机关的行政诉权

行政诉权是行政法律关系主体的一项宪法性权利。我国现行行政诉讼立法以及当下法学理论界仅仅关注行政相对人一方．一定程度上相对压制甚至剥夺以行政机关为代表的行政主体一方行政诉权，这并不利于行政机关服务于社会之积极性、主动性的发挥，无助于官民平等关系的打造。应在“平衡论”原则指导下，在监督制约行政机关行政权力的同时，适当放宽对行政机关诉权的限制，以达致行政机关与行政相对人间权利义务的结构性平衡。     

Early and late adopters of ISO 14001-type standards: revisiting the role of firm characteristics and capabilities

Environmental management standards (EMS) are important voluntary management tools that aim at reducing the environmental impact of firms’ activities. From ethical motivations through increasingly high pressure from regulatory authorities to expected financial returns, reasons to adopt an EMS are manifold. While they all certainly matter, it is still unclear from the literature which firm-specific organisational capabilities and structural characteristics significantly drive adoption. Using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) on two samples of French firms, we identify firm-specific factors associated with the early or late adoption of ISO 14001-type EMS and we test whether adoption increases labour productivity. We find that adopters are moderately large manufacturing firms that rely on ISO 9001 standards or Total Quality Management. In addition, according to the first sample, early adopters tend to be more technologically complex firms that are active in the European market. These differences are attenuated in the second sample, which may be biased towards more innovative firms. Both samples however concur with the conclusion that, whether early or late, adoption is associated with a higher labour productivity compared to non-adoption. This result still holds when we use fully interacted linear models instead of PSM, and seems to be consistent over time. Thus, implementing EMS might provide win–win opportunities to adopters, without giving any premium to “early birds”.     

Kharis Templeman,Yun-han Chu,and Larry Diamond,eds., Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years

Journal of Chinese Political Science -     

交易费用经济学的一个新视角:国家宏观交易费用论

本文在新制度经济学交易费用分析范式基础上,提出了微观交易费用和宏观交易费用之分,并指出前者导致企业的产生,而后者的存在和进一步扩大趋势,使国家具有了存在的必要性以及国家的作用进一步强化和扩大。同时,简要概括了国家宏观交易费用论的基本框架,进一步分析了宏观交易费用的各个组成,并试图用我国市场取向改革和欧盟等一些实例来说明国家宏观交易费用论。     

Correction to: Establishing Trust in the Illegal Wildlife Trade in China

Asian Journal of Criminology - The funding information provided at the Acknowledgement section in the original article is inaccurate.     

The Civic Education Project in Belarus,Ukraine, and Moldova: the impact of dependency

The reliance of development NGOs on donor funding exposes them to the danger of formulating programmes geared to meeting the needs of the donors, rather than those of local beneficiaries. In the worst-case scenario, NGOs may exacerbate existing problems through interventions that reinforce their own dominance and undermine local empowerment. This article examines some of the practices of one international NGO which worked in the field of higher education in three former Soviet countries.