Crossing Party Lines: Volatility and Ticket Splitting in Mexico (1994–2000)

This article aims to amplify our portrait of the Mexican electorate by examining the ways in which Mexican electors distributed their votes among the parties during 1994–2000, both over successive elections (volatility) and in the same election (ballot splitting). Aggregate and survey data revealed that Mexicans engaged in these two forms of electoral behaviour frequently, indicators of an electorate in flux. Regression analysis indicated that, contrary to the expectation that the politically sophisticated differentiated their votes, virtually all parts of Mexican society were equally likely to switch parties and split tickets.     

巨额财产来源不明罪基本法理问题研究

巨额财产来源不明罪基于犯罪本质论出发 ,是刑法对国家工作人员持有或支出来源不明的巨额财产 ,且不能给予合法说明的否定评价 ,而非有罪推定 ;其行为基于犯罪行为论出发 ,是超常规形态的多样性行为方式 ,而非“持有”或“不作为” ;“不能说明来源为合法”从犯罪构成论出发 ,是犯罪构成符合事由 ,而非程序上举证责任的承担。     

ALCOHOL AND THE RISK OF PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMIZATION*

We examine the effect of alcohol consumption on an individual's risk of victimization for physical and sexual assault. Analyses of the National Violence Against Women Survey suggest that the frequency and amount of alcohol people consume has strong effects on their risk of victimization when drinking, but is not associated with their victimization while sober. This evidence suggests that drinking has a situational causal effect on victimization, and cannot be attributed to opportunity factors associated with drinking. This effect is particularly strong for men and young adults, who may be more likely to behave provocatively when under the influence. Victims of sexual assaults and men assaulted by their female partners are also particularly likely to be drinking.     

完善我国土地出让市场的拍卖模式

拍卖作为一种竞争最激烈的国有土地使用权出让方式,为搞活土地市场起到了一定的积极作用。但近几年来土地拍卖市场上由于政府的短期行为和开发商的不成熟,导致地价非理性上涨,不利于土地市场的健康发展,也不利于房地产业的可持续发展。为了规范土地拍卖行为,必须从制定科学合理的城市土地开发供应计划、限制竞买人资格、实行最高限价、建立多渠道的土地拍卖供应市场、完善住房供应体制等措施,促进土地拍卖市场的理性发展。     

青少年性犯罪的罪前情境

犯罪罪前情境的初步研究明确了情境因素如何促使青少年罪犯产生犯罪的动机,如何促使犯罪动机转化为犯罪行为。青少年性犯罪的罪前情境包括主观罪前情境、客观罪前情境和时空中的罪前情境,并各具表现形式。     

CRIMINAL PROPENSITY,DEVIANT SEXUAL INTERESTS AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OF SEXUAL AGGRESSORS AGAINST WOMEN: A COMPARISON OF EXPLANATORY MODELS*

Three hypotheses have been used to describe the male propensity for sexual aggression towards women: a general propensity to offend, a specific propensity to sexually offend and a combination of both. In this paper, using structural equation modeling, we compared the relative utility of these three hypotheses in explaining criminal activity in adulthood of sexual aggressors of women. In total, 209 adult males who were convicted of at least one sexual offence were included in the study. Results indicate that a propensity model emphasizing the role of an early and persistent general propensity to act in an antisocial manner during childhood and adolescence is most adequate to explain sexual aggressors' criminal activity. After controlling for the role of this propensity, a specific propensity characterized by high sexualization and deviant sexual interests explained only a modest proportion of variance of the sexual criminal activity.     

Sexual orientation as a justice issue: Issues of postmodern social philosophy and religion for civil rights

This essay theoretically explores three core concerns for social justice research and analysis in the transition from social and legal philosophical foundations based upon Enlightenment categorical universals to a postmodern context that recognizes concurrent globalization and the constructed nature of particular status identities. Utilizing sexual orientation as a case study, the concerns are, what constitutes a civil right in a postmodern context, how useful are categories versus behaviors in protecting civil rights, and how does religion affect the civil morality that justifies and legitimates justice criteria? The argument is made that a justice construct for sexual orientation must rely both on behavioral freedoms and ontological status for adequate protection of human dignity and equality. It also is argued that interreligious discourse is essential to reparticularize religiomoral assumptions that have justified inequality and to provide an adequate negotiated grounding to legitimate shared norms upon which postmodern justice philosophy can be built.     

Income transfers,entrepreneurial effort,and the Coase theorem: The case for efficiency reconsidered

The Coase theorem asserts that private bargaining can overcome the difficulties posed by an externality situation and lead to a first-best allocative solution. For such idealized efficiency to be achieved, however, it is generally recognized that certain very special conditions must be met—including the assumption of zero transaction costs. In opposition to this view, the paper argues that the special simplifying conditions usually specified in the literature are not sufficient. Unless stringent supplementary conditions are introduced, private bargaining will not bring about a first-best solution. Indeed, if the standard assumptions are met but the supplementary conditions of the paper are not, government intervention in the externality case can be expected to produce a solution that is Pareto superior to the one generated by private bargaining.     

对大学生性观念及婚恋态度的调查与思考

性与性健康是人类健康的核心问题之一。如何引导大学生正确认识性现象,树立健康的性观念,选择有益的性行为已经成为高等教育的重要内容。对大学生进行性观念和婚恋态度的调查分析,是有效地对大学生开展性健康教育的前提。高等院校应该将性健康教育的视角拓展到美学领域,并从性生理、性心理、性道德和性法制等方面对大学生实施性健康教育,以逐步提高大学生对性的科学认知水平和自我调节、自我控制的能力。     

Improving Sex Estimation from Crania Using a Novel Three‐dimensional Quantitative Method,,

This study utilizes an innovative 3D approach to discover metric variables that obtain the highest classification rates for sex estimation from the cranium. Models were constructed from 222 cranial CT scans of U.S. Whites from the Bass Donated Collection. These models were used to create a statistical bone atlas that captures the primary shape variation in the skull and facilitates rapid computer‐automated analyses. The bone atlas showed that important size‐related sex variables are bizygomatic breadth, maximum cranial length, cranial base length, and mastoid height. Shape‐related variables capture sex differences in the projection of the glabellar region, inclination of the frontal, and cranial base flexion. In addition, vault thickness is highly dimorphic, with females having on average thicker vaults in the frontal region, and males having thicker vaults in the occipital region. Cross‐validated linear discriminant analysis obtained >95% accuracy (97.5% with 11 variables and 95.5% with eight variables).