Location privacy: The challenges of mobile service devices

Adding to the current debate, this article focuses on the personal data and privacy challenges posed by private industry's use of smart mobile devices that provide location-based services to users and consumers. Directly relevant to personal data protection are valid concerns about the collection, retention, use and accessibility of this kind of personal data, in relation to which a key issue is whether valid consent is ever obtained from users. While it is indisputable that geo-location technologies serve important functions, their potential use for surveillance and invasion of privacy should not be overlooked. Thus, in this study we address the question of how a legal regime can ensure the proper functionality of geo-location technologies while preventing their misuse. In doing so, we examine whether information gathered from geo-location technologies is a form of personal data, how it is related to privacy and whether current legal protection mechanisms are adequate. We argue that geo-location data are indeed a type of personal data. Not only is this kind of data related to an identified or identifiable person, it can reveal also core biographical personal data. What is needed is the strengthening of the existing law that protects personal data (including location data), and a flexible legal response that can incorporate the ever-evolving and unknown advances in technology.     

行政服务中心: 发展、 问题与对策

作为打造服务型政府,推动行政审批体制改革的载体行政服务中心因缺乏行政主体地位、权限设定混乱、信息不透明、监督缺位,导致其不能发挥应有的作用.所以,要通过赋予行政服务中心应有地位、实施相对集中的行政许可权制度、增加信息透明度、完善监督机制等措施,进一步发挥行政服务中心的职能作用.     

论保安的社会控制功能

作为一种社会控制的工具和手段,保安主要通过预防犯罪、对违法行为和危机事件的快速反应、弥补警力不足、收集和共享情报、影响人们的安全观和适应非传统安全的发展等方式实现其社会控制功能;保安既有社会控制的优越性,也有其不可避免的局限性,这种局限性主要体现在:保安对公众场所的大量控制会削弱正式控制力量、人员素质的参差不齐影响控制效果、公众对保安的负面认识影响社会控制的执行力。认识保安的社会控制功能及其作用机制,正视保安的社会控制功能的局限性及其对社会控制的消极影响,更有利于实现社会控制,有助于促进社会的和谐发展。     

When trade unions succeed: Cases of blocked liberalisation in the common market

Despite the generally accepted weakness of trade unions at the European Union level, an analysis of two high profile cases – the Services Directive and the Port Directive – shows that trade unions are able to mobilise effectively at the European level and, within constellations of actors, crucially impact EU decision making. In contrast to common claims that a lack of access to EU institutions makes such groups powerless, it is argued here that the exclusion of large opposing societal groups from consultations is neither a quick nor a sure fire recipe for dismantling opposition. On the contrary, it politicises the process and may lead to opposing groups mobilising in more contentious ways.     

马克思主义视阈下我国政府购买社会组织公共服务的理论逻辑

政府购买社会组织公共服务是弥补政府和市场不足的有效途径之一,有利于提高公共服务质量和效率,促进公共服务均等化。然而,国内学术界对于这方面的研究目前主要集中在论述和阐释西方学者言论学说,对于政府购买社会组织公共服务在社会主义制度下存在与发展的理论基础还没有一个清醒的认识。事实上,购买社会组织公共服务是国家与社会二重化的必然结果,是国家向社会放权的具体方式之一;有利于社会主义国家公平正义的实现,推动社会发展;也是马克思主义人本观的本质要求,有利于为每一个人的全面发展创造良好条件;是马克思公共服务理论在中国的具体实践。     

浙江省流动人口计划生育基本公共服务均等化的现状及实现途径简

社会管理已成为当下我国社会发展的     

Socialization of Service for the Elderly and Social Governance Innovation：in the Case of Zhejiang Province

In the socialization process of services for the elderly, guiding the social subjects to participate in solving the imbalance problem of supply and demand has become the basic target. Based on the local practical experience in Zhejiang Province, the paper presents different innovated service models and emphasizes the significance of social governance innovation. Based on this, this paper analyzes such problems as social subjects' lack of motivation, the poor coordination of cooperation mechanism and the inadequacy of effective supply. The researcher also puts forward relevant countermeasures in the aspects of capacity building, mechanism innovation, and content innovation. The paper concludes that the services for the elderly are supposed to promote social governance innovation in the institutions and mechanisms.     

An australian adolescent sex offender treatment program: Program and client description

Abstract

The following paper outlines the key components of the Adolescent Sex Offender Treatment Program (ASOTP), an Australian program that provides assessment and therapeutic services to children and adolescents with sexually abusive behaviours. The ASOTP is auspiced by the Children's Protection Society (CPS), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. If is committed to an integrated program model, which focuses on the parallel process of work with child and adolescent victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse. Specific attention is paid to describing the main modules of the formal group therapy program, which most clients enter following risk assessment. Criteria for assessing positive outcomes are also outlined. The characteristics of children and young people who have attended the ASOTP are described, including prior history of victimisation and self-reported problem behaviours as assessed by the Achenbach Youth Self-Report Form. A summary of sexually abusive behaviour and victim characteristics is also provided. Findings are discussed in light of relevant practice and systems issues.     

A comprehensive model for the evaluation of standard expenditure needs and standard level of local services

ABSTRACT

This paper addresses the problem of the simultaneous evaluation of local governments’ standard expenditure needs together with the related level of standard public services proposing a new approach to fiscal equalisation based on quantitative methods. Standard expenditure needs are estimated using quantile regression, moreover robust non-parametric methods are employed for the computation of composite indicators of demand and supply factors. Data from English local authorities over the period 1997–2006 have been used to test the internal and external validity of the model.     

Prisoners with psychosis in England and Wales: diversion to psychiatric inpatient services?

The prevalence of psychosis among prisoners in England and Wales is ten times that in the household population and UK government policy is that prisoners should receive equivalent care to those in the community. This study investigated the implications of policy to divert more from the criminal justice system for psychiatric treatment. Psychotic prisoners were compared with psychotic persons in households and with other prisoners in two surveys of psychiatric morbidity in representative samples of the UK population. Psychotic prisoners were younger, more from ethnic minorities, with comorbid anxiety, substance misuse, ASPD, and childhood behavioural problems compared to psychotic persons in households. Less than a third had received previous inpatient treatment. Psychotic prisoners had similar criminal histories and higher psychopathy scores than non-psychopathic prisoners. Diversion is unfeasible without improved screening for psychosis and increasing bed numbers at higher levels of security to accommodate more patients who would pose high risk to the public. Future research should investigate why UK psychiatric services fail to identify psychotic prisoners and provide aftercare.