The Effects of Adolescent Activities on Delinquency: A Differential Involvement Approach

T. Hirschi’s (1969, Causes of Delinquency. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA) control theory proposes that involvement, as an element of the social bond, should reduce delinquency. But, research studies have found that the effect of involvement is rather weak. This study reformulates Hirschi’s involvement hypothesis by posing involvement as a social setting variable and a differential factor. Certain activities provide a social setting favorable to the development of the social bond and the reduction in delinquent association. The reformulated hypothesis is examined based on a sample of Grade 7–12 students in a Western Canadian city. The results reveal that school- and family-related activities strengthen the social bond and reduce delinquent association and delinquency. In contrast, other conventional activities such as spending time with friends and dating have the opposite effects. In addition, the indirect effect of differential involvement on delinquency through the social bond and delinquent association is stronger than its direct effect. Thus, the undesirable effects of the less-positive activities on delinquency may be buffered or reduced by strengthening the social bond and reducing delinquent association.Siu Kwong Wong is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandon University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington State University. His major research interests are in the study of delinquency and social disorganization.     

On the Boundary for Criminal Sanctions on Network One-Sided Accomplice Crimes and a Discussion of the “Qvod Player” Case

According to the criminal law, the Chinese legislation has taken extremely cautious standpoint towards to the one-sided accomplice crime. The alienation of the network joint crime has led the one-sided accomplice crime into continuous theoretical and legislative difficulties. A series of judicial interpretation and legislative changes as contour-measures have been established to initiate the survival scope of one-sided accomplice crime have taken shape. Network operators and service providers who bear statutory safety management obligations violate those obligations knowingly and have further brought about considerable risk or serious harm. Substantial penalty is necessary for irresponsible and illegal mismanagement by the web service providers. The thresholds of punishment towards to the network one-sided accomplice crime should be limited and restrained by reasonably distinguishing normal business behavior from dangerous behaviors based on full consideration of subjective and objective criminal elements simultaneously. The prosecution of “Qvod Player” Case has vividly confirmed the actual judicial demand for punishing network one-sided accomplice.     

论库存现金的司法会计鉴定

现今社会,利用库存现金进行犯罪的经济案件不断增多,因为库存现金在企业资产中的流动性最强,常常成为不法分子觊觎的对象,所以在司法实践中,常常需要对库存现金进行司法会计鉴定。本文详细介绍了对库存现金进行司法会计鉴定的内容、鉴定方法与鉴定要求等,并介绍了常见的利用现金造假账的手法,以期对司法会计实践工作提供帮助。     

The point break effect: an examination of surf,crime, and transitory opportunities

Opportunity theories of crime suggest that crime is highly specific and concentrated in time and space. Using these theories as a framework, this paper seeks to examine the transitory nature of crime. This hypothesis was tested using data from a coastal city in California to examine the relationship between surf conditions (measured at five daily time points) and number of crime incidents (n = 16,075). Crime totals were aggregated at the street segment level (n = 4551) for each day in 2011. These data were modeled using a series of panel negative binomial models, clustered by census block group. The findings suggest that surf conditions had an effect on the likelihood of crime incidents, but these effects were time specific. Favorable surf conditions were associated with increases in crime only between 2:30 pm and 5:29 pm. Additionally, locations closer to surf spots were associated with more crime, relative to locations farther away. Closer examination of micro-geographies aids in understanding how systematic shifts in routine activities affect the frequency and location of crime, and allows crime prevention to be more specialized and efficient. Adding to the extant understanding of hot times and opportunity structures will enable more effective allocation of resources and predictive policing efforts.     

试析当前公安机关执法活动中存在的问题及对策

公安机关的执法活动是实现公平和正义、构建社会主义和谐社会的重要保证。这就要求公安机关必须正视在执法活动中存在的实际问题,并且提出行之有效的对策,彻底解决这些问题。     

UNSTRUCTURED SOCIALIZING AND RATES OF DELINQUENCY

This article applies an individual-level routine activities perspective to explaining rates of delinquency. The theoretical analysis also links the opportunity processes of that perspective to key themes of social disorganization theory. Multilevel analyses of 4, 358 eighth-grade students from thirty-six schools in ten cities support the central hypothesis: Time spent in unstructured socializing with peers has both individual and contextual effects that explain a large share of the variation in rates of delinquency across groups of adolescents who attend different schools. In addition, parental monitoring has a very strong contextual effect on unstructured socializing, which supports the proposed integration of routine activity and social disorganization perspectives.     

让信息研判纳入警务参谋活动的轨道

如果警务信息研判工作在完成了对初始信息的分析后就止步不前,对研判资源是巨大的浪费。充分运用研判工作产生的初步成果,向警务参谋策划职能延伸,进而使研判工作实现与辅助决策和辅助指挥职能的接轨,是让研判工作纳入警务参谋活动轨道的一条捷径,也是对研判工作最大限度地发挥作用的一种追求。完全可以把建设一个研判机构的投入,用来建设一个初具规模的警务参谋机关,并使其功能随之全面提升。     

论道德主体及主体性

道德主体及主体性的深入探讨对我国社会主义精神文明和现代化建设具有重大的现实意义,是构建社会主义道德规范和体系的重要途径。当前,为了实现中华民族的伟大复兴,必须高扬社会主义道德的主体性,完善、发展社会主义道德新风尚,净化党风,净化社会风气,提高全民族的道德意识。在民族优秀道德基础上,融合社会主义市场经济的客观要求,确立具有时代特色的邓小平道德范式。     

俄罗斯车臣恐怖主义产生的根源

近年来,俄罗斯境内频繁发生车臣恐怖分子的袭击事件。究其原因有5方面:1.俄、车民族结怨很深且由来已久,这使得车臣族人很容易拿起武器,随时准备着用暴力证明自己的正确;2.冷战结束以后,一部分车臣人谋求政治独立,结果遭受俄军一再打击,受害者转而寻求以武力复仇;3.车臣地区社会贫困、经济文化发展落后,使得一些车臣人迫于生活压力从事恐怖活动;4.伊斯兰教原教旨主义不断向车臣地区渗透扩张,使部分车臣青年产生了驱逐甚至消灭俄罗斯异教徒的激进思想;5.包括穆斯林国家战斗人员、本·拉登“基地”组织和前阿富汗塔利班政权在内的国际恐怖势力的公开支持以及某些国家的纵容立场,都对车臣恐怖分子起到了姑息养奸的作用。惟其如此,俄罗斯国内的恐怖主义问题不仅层出不穷,而且成了一个久治难愈的顽症。     

论对赌博应严厉查禁而不能“抓大放小”

赌博活动在我国渐呈蔓延趋势,而且花样繁多,规模增大,严重扰乱了社会治安秩序,败坏了社会风气。在这种形势下,有人提出了“抓大放小”的所谓“禁赌新思维”。这种“禁赌新思维”实际上是对我国现行禁赌政策的曲解。要想有效遏制赌博活动发展蔓延势头,必须对群众性娱乐活动正面引导,对赌博活动严厉查禁。