GUEST EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE ON ATTACHMENT THEORY,SEPARATION, AND DIVORCE: FORGING COHERENT UNDERSTANDINGS FOR FAMILY LAW

Every day in family law courts and mediation rooms across the world, complex decisions are made about postseparation parenting that affect the developmental outcomes of countless children. Attorneys, judges, parents, and even mental health professionals are often poorly equipped to accurately apply developmental knowledge to these decisions, including knowledge from the vast field of attachment theory. A mounting body of research from developmental psychology and neuroscience confirms attachment relationships to be a central axis of the child's developmental pathway, in every family, in every culture throughout the world. The health of a child's attachments can influence multiple and far‐reaching outcomes. As such, attachment theory and knowledge deserve a place in the family court's deliberations and planning for children, but to date, that place remains ill defined. Inconsistencies and misunderstandings, conundrums and complexities of applying attachment knowledge to divorce and separation matters are evident throughout the field. This Special Issue went in search of a shared praxis of meaning about attachment. The resulting collection of papers and interviews documents the views of multiple, eminent attachment experts, who discuss advances in the theory and consider guidelines for legal and mental health practitioners in applying attachment concepts to post‐separation decision making. This opening paper charts the course of this project and summarizes the major points of convergence.     

FAMILY LAW AND THE NEUROSCIENCE OF ATTACHMENT,PART II

Daniel Siegel is renowned for his ability to translate neuroscience for professions working outside the arena of science. Here, Siegel discusses advances in interpersonal neurobiology, specifically considering applications for family law. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry and co‐director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA and director of the Mindsight Institute. He is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books, including the internationally acclaimed professional texts, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience and The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well‐Being.     

DIVORCE IN THE NURSERY: ON INFANTS AND OVERNIGHT CARE

Infants, parental separation, custody, and overnight care: a vexed combination of issues and needs that has long perplexed the family law field. Carol George and Judith Solomon have conducted the only published observational study of infant attachment in light of postseparation overnight care arrangements. Here they revisit that study and bring more than three decades of experience to bear on questions concerning very young children implicated in family law disputes. Currently a professor of psychology at Mills College, California, George is an author and coauthor of several notable attachment measures and has over 50 research publications in the area of attachment. Judith Solomon is both a clinical psychologist and a researcher in the attachment field, specializing in the study of early attachment relationships and representations, most recently in the Department of Pediatrics, Bridgeport Hospital. George and Solomon are associate editors of the journal, Attachment and Human Development, reviewers on multiple developmental journals, and both consult and teach internationally.     

当前司法会计理论研究存在的突出问题及其对策

由于我国司法会计理论研究起步始于检察机关,也比较集中于检察机关,具有比较注重查账实务总结,理论层次界线不太明显和易与相邻理论混淆等一些特点,比较容易出现以表象代替本质、以个别代替总体、抽象常与具体矛盾和盲目扩张排斥友邻等一些欠妥之处,因而在方法上应当遵循宜清不宜糊、宜小不宜大、宜细不宜粗、宜简不宜繁、宜缓不宜急、宜宽不宜窄和宜实不宜虚等主要原则。     

警察防卫控制训练理念新探

警察防卫控制训练长期以来主要是通过“教师讲解示范一学生模仿练习”的形式进行教学训练,注重整齐划一、严格的组织纪律,学生的个性发展被压抑,忽视了学生的学习方法的培养及学生生理、心理和认知水平的发展。在警察防卫控制训练中引入元认知理论、快乐体育理论、终身体育理论,来指导学生的训练,让学生懂得学,也懂得为什么要这样学,在辛苦的警察防卫控制训练中找到快乐,从而为树立终身进行防卫控制训练打下基础,提高公安队伍的战斗力。     

刑事证人出庭作证的误区及其出路

目前,在刑事诉讼中,证人出庭作证情况不容乐观,证人出庭作证的比例非常小,这种现象显然不利于法庭审理。为了解决证人出庭率偏低的问题,理论界和实务界一直有人提出应当提高证人出庭率。这种做法在一定程度上有其合理性。但是一味地提高证人出庭率反而是一种理论上的误区。由于证人证言未必可靠,中国多年来司法传统,质证效果难以保证等原因,片面强调证人出庭率对于查明案件事实,对公正审理刑事案件未必能够起到促进作用。关于证人出庭作证的立法也存在误区,证人资格规定过宽,证人作证义务豁免,书面证言与口头证言之间存在矛盾等原因也导致了我国目前证人出庭作证情况的乱象。走出这些误区需要从完善证据立法等多个方面入手。     

社会发展理论的实践之维：理论与实践关系的再思考

理论与实践相结合是马克思主义哲学的基本原理之一。传统教科书对二者关系的理解和阐释往往局限于认识论领域,且对之的理解有简单化的倾向。这种现状不利于形成用以指导社会实践的创新型理论。应对理论与实践的关系进行系统地划分与考察,区分二者关系的滞后、同步和超前状态。唯有如此,才能辨证地把理论和实践统一起来,才能进而得出具有先导功能的用以指导中国特色社会主义实践的超前性理论,而后者所具有的创新特征正是社会发展理论在实践之维下所必需的。     

“以人为本”是中国共产党对社会主义理论的重大贡献

在苏东剧变20周年、中国共产党成立90周年之际,从国际共产主义运动发展的历史考察中国特色社会主义,研究中国共产党的理论创新,具有重要意义。本文认为,中国特色社会主义之所以成功,一个很重要的原因是中国共产党改变了传统社会主义的发展理念,从以国为本、以制度为本,转向了以人为本,真正从满足民众利益出发制定国家的方针政策,克服了苏联发展模式的弊端,走出了一条社会主义建设新路。＂以人为本＂是中国共产党对社会主义理论与实践的重大贡献,但在实践中还存在不足,而真正加以落实是解决许多问题的关键所在。     

Export processing zones and corporate environmental performance in emerging economies: The case of the oil,gas, and chemical sectors of Trinidad and Tobago

Export processing zones (EPZs) are increasingly being established to promote economic growth in developing countries. However, they remain controversial and are often criticized for being associated with a “race to the bottom” characterized by the easing of labor and environmental standards. This paper investigates whether the decision to locate facilities inside these zones is associated with higher corporate environmental performance. Findings indicate that facilities operating in Trinidad and Tobago’s EPZs are more likely to show higher corporate environmental performance than those outside. Additionally, firms in state-managed zones appear to show higher corporate environmental performance than those located in privately managed zones. Enhanced institutional pressures from regulators, local communities, and fellow tenant firms may explain these differences. These results suggest that environmental policy makers and environmentalists can take advantage of already established EPZs to promote enclave enhanced institutional pressures associated with superior corporate environmental performance.

Teaching Obama: history,critical race theory and social work education

ABSTRACT

Barack Obama's first autobiography, Dreams from My Father (1995), explores themes of race and identity up to the late 1980s in the life of the first African American president. The book emphasizes Obama's personal struggle as the son of an interracial couple, and the social and environmental context that shaped his growth and transformation. Using the tools of critical race theory, Freeman illustrates how Obama's autobiography can be used in the classroom to explore an individual's developing racial consciousness in the 1970s and 1980s, and as a prism through which students can understand what it means to live in the post-civil-rights-movement era. Obama's life history illuminates how the ideas and meanings of racial progress in the United States are contested and struggled over on a daily basis at both the micro and macro level.