构建依法化解群体性事件纠纷机制的思考[1]

群体性事件是在经济转型期各种社会矛盾相互碰撞集中爆发的外在形式,其主要分为因经济发展不平衡、政治诉求难以满足和经济利益冲突转化为政治诉求引发的群体性事件等三种类型。国际社会有着成熟的处置群体性纠纷的方法和经验,在借鉴相关经验的基础上,应当通过建立社会调解机制、新型社会组织参与机制和信访运行机制,探索构建我国群体性事件的纠纷解决机制。     

Can General Strain Theory Help Us Understand Violent Behaviors Among People with Mental Illnesses?

Recent work suggests that violence among people with mental illnesses is not simply due to the symptoms and comorbidities that define mental illness. We further this work by examining the extent to which strains or stressors explain the link between mental illness and violence. Specifically, we apply general strain theory (GST) to a longitudinal sample of adults with mental illnesses to investigate the lagged effects on violence of several strain measures, while controlling for mental illness symptoms, substance abuse, past violence, and other key variables. Parental drug abuse from childhood and stressful life events across the life course predict violence in adulthood. In a prospective model, relationship strain from an earlier time period significantly predicts changes in later self-reported violence. The results shed light on the ability of criminological frameworks to explain violence among people with mental illnesses.