The Double Paradox of Juvenile Justice

This article considers the history of a century of juvenile justice. Illinois 'invented' the separate 'children's court' in 1899 and this concept was spearheaded in Northern America, Great Britain and continental Europe in the first decades of the new century. However, a century after its foundation the future of the juvenile court is in doubt everywhere in the Western world. Some conclude that there is a cyclical pattern in juvenile justice policies. That proposition is rejected in this article. The proposition of a cyclical pattern also presupposes that there is no real problem at stake in treating juvenile offenders. The main point of this article, however, is that juvenile justice cannot escape trying to solve a very complicated foundational issue. This issue is a double paradox, that is, juvenile justice has to solve two philosophical questions: the justification of punishment and the justification of punishment for non-adults. This diagnosis presents a new conceptual framework for an analysis of the history of juvenile justice.     

生态社会主义思潮对我国青年的影响及教育对策

强调把环境保护、维护生态平衡与争取社会主义相结合的生态社会主义,对我国当代青年产生了正负交织的影响,特别是其负面影响不可忽视。因此,要加强系统的马克思主义教育,加强对生态社会主义的研究,加强意识形态教育,加强国情国力教育,尽力克服这一思潮对青年的不利影响。     

完善网络游戏立法的若干思考

网络游戏给不少青少年带来了种种危害,游戏中如账号被盗,密码遭窃,游戏中的道具、装备失踪等问题不断出现。网络游戏的发展不仅是一个技术问题,更是一个法律问题,因此,应尽快完善游戏立法,以保证网络游戏的健康发展。     

The contemporary transformation of american youth: An analysis of change in the prevalence of delinquency, 1991–2015

Youth involvement in crime has declined substantially over the past few decades, yet the reasons for this trend remain unclear. We advance the literature by examining the role of several potentially important shifts in individual attitudes and behaviors that may help to account for the observed temporal variation in youth delinquency. Our multilevel analysis of repeated cross‐sectional data from eighth and tenth grade students in the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study indicates that changes in youth offending prevalence were not associated with changes in youth attachment and commitment to school, community involvement, or parental supervision after school. In contrast, the study provides suggestive evidence that the significant reduction in youth offending prevalence observed since the early 1990s was significantly associated with a decrease in unstructured socializing and alcohol consumption and, to a lesser extent, with a decrease in youth preferences for risky activities. Implications for existing theoretical explanations and future research on youth crime trends are discussed.     

论第三条道路思潮向西方青年的传播

西方第三条道路思潮作为一种政治思潮,主要是以青年政策为中介向青年传播的。这主要体现在提出与现时代社会青年相适应的政治行动思路;倡导与青年“新个人主义”相应的积极责任观;充分利用现代科技手段唤起青年的政治热情;配套实施相关的就业、教育、经济和社会政策促进青年发展等方面。第三条道路向西方青年传播对我们的启示在于;需要重视并创新性地去巩固党执政的青年基础;需要有效地向当代中国青年传播马克思主义。     

青年价值观的文化建构

青年价值观的建构依赖于青年所处的文化情境与青年心理机制的内在契合。由于青年自身的特殊性,精神文化成为青年价值观建构的主导力量。当代精神文化在塑造青年价值观的同时,还存在诸如传统文化价值意义消解、大众文化价值意义弱化、主导精神文化缺失等不完善之处。因此,深度挖掘传统文化的价值因子,不断提升大众文化的价值意义,积极发展我国主导文化,对于有效校正青年的价值航向,促使青年价值观由应然走向实然,具有重大的理论价值和实践意义。     

文化自觉与当代青年的民族认同

文化自觉既是中华民族与世界其他民族和谐共处之道,也是中国社会内部多民族、多文化之间共同发展之路。在文化自觉的视域下,培育当代青年的民族认同就必须认同本民族文化,加强民族文化的学习,客观地看待外来文化,发挥主体意识,重塑本民族文化,以期最终形成民族精神的凝聚力量,振兴民族文化。     

DIFFERENTIAL COERCION,STREET YOUTH,AND VIOLENT CRIME*

Using a sample of 300 homeless street youths, this study examines differential coercion theory and the role that coercion and the socialpsychological deficits of anger, low self‐control, coercive modeling, coercive ideation, and control imbalances play in the generation of violent crime. Results from cross‐sectional and prospective offending models that examine the individual mediators reveal that coercion has a direct relationship with violent offending as well as a relationship that is mediated by low self‐control, anger, coercive modeling, and coercive ideation. Although control imbalances have a direct relationship with crime, they do not mediate the relationship between coercion and crime. In the cross‐sectional model that contains all the mediators, coercion, low self‐control, anger, coercive modeling, and coercive ideation are associated with crime. In the prospective model that contains all the mediators, only anger, coercive modeling, and coercive ideation remain associated with crime. Results are discussed regarding future theory development and policy implications.     

Impacting the Political Landscape: Who Registers and Votes Among Naturalized Americans?

Little is known about the voting behavior of naturalized Americans, primarily due to a lack of good quality data on the national level. Using data from the Voting and Registration Supplement to the November 1996 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine whether region of origin and length of time spent in the United States affect the likelihood of registering and voting among naturalized citizens, net of other socioeconomic and demographic factors already known to influence electoral behavior. We find that naturalized citizens who have a longer length of time at current residence and in the United States, and those who are older, with more education and higher income are more likely to register and vote. Region of origin is not a major explanatory variable, but there are differences in registering and voting by country of origin among naturalized citizens from Asia and Latin America. Finally, being registered is a necessary but not sufficient condition that predicts voting among naturalized citizens from Asia and from Latin America.     

特色栏目:青少年学术期刊生存与发展的基石

大众传播媒介的迅猛发展和理论研究的繁荣活跃,使我国公开发行期刊的总量达到九千多种。但部分青少年学术期刊由于缺乏创新意识与竞争意识,存在趋同化、平庸化倾向,发行量大多在几百份到几千份左右,市场化程度不高。办好特色栏目是青少年学术期刊生存与发展的基石。