Applications of Social Network Media in Medicolegal Death Investigation

With the increased popularity of online social networking services (SNS) such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google+, we propose that a wealth of new resources is available for medicolegal death investigation. Recognizing this potential, we identified cases in which social media had been useful in the past in our office and asked our investigative staff to consider using social media in current cases. These cases provided illustrative examples for this primer regarding how information from SNS was used in death investigations in our office. Information gleaned from online social media aided in establishing preliminary identification of a decedent, locating next‐of‐kin, investigating the circumstances of death as relevant to the manner of death, corroborating eyewitness accounts, and providing information relevant to time of death. Potential pitfalls were identified, such as shared accounts or online impostors. SNS proved useful to the medicolegal death investigator and medical examiner, so long as their limitations were recognized.     

Correlates of Pre-College Males' Sexual Aggression

Abstract

Current literature suggests that the causes of sexual aggression toward women lie in the fabric of a patriarchal society. The acceptance by males of negative, stereotypical and harmful myths about women, traditional sex-role stereotypes, the acceptance of interpersonal violence and the objectification of women foster an environment where sexual aggression can flourish. This paper explores several factors associated with male aggression and date rape in a sample of pre-college males entering a medium-sized Southern University. Indicators of the acceptance of rapemyths, hostility toward women, acceptance of interpersonal violence, adversarial sexual beliefs, drug and alcohol use and sexual history were examined in relation to three degrees of sexual aggression. Discriminant Analysis indicated that the four attitudinal and three behavioral variables successfully classified 56 percent of the original grouped cases.     

Collaborative Governance in the Reform of Western Australia's Alcohol and Other Drug Sector

Collaborative governance involves processes and structures for policy development and decision making with particular relevance for health and social services. We examined collaborative governance in the reform of Western Australia's alcohol and other drug sector, applying Emerson et al.'s (2012) integrative framework. A documentary review and group interviews with government, sector, and consumer representatives were involved. Contextual factors included increased service funding, and the development of a partnership approach. Drivers for collaboration involved leadership and financial incentives for policy implementation. Key stakeholders across government and the sector reported a mutually supportive and constructive relationship and increased capacity, and they shared an agenda for change. The integrative framework was a useful structure for the explication of collaborative governance, although financial arrangements were not addressed.     

社会组织支撑政府职能转变的对策研究

社会组织作为市场失灵和政府失灵的补充,在承接政府职能和公共服务转移中发挥着重要作用。在推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的总目标下,作为职能转移主体的政府和作为承接政府职能转移主体的社会组织都存在自身体制性的障碍。要加快实现政府职能的转变,应锚定"善治"的目标取向,通过为社会组织提供足够的发展空间和法律环境、建立政府购买的财力和政策保障体系、完善社会组织法人治理结构、增加公共产品供给等措施,全面深化我国政府行政体制改革和社会治理体制的创新。     

创新社会管理视阈下的农村公共服务建设

在创新社会管理的框架下,加强农村公共服务建设,一要尊重农民的主体地位,切实保障农民在农村公共服务建设中的知情权、参与权、决策权和监督权;二要贯彻基本公共服务均等化原则,确保农村公共服务建设的公平性;三要创新工作方式方法,提高农村公共服务建设的可接受度。     

中美大学生志愿服务激励机制的比较研究

从来源上看,国家的合法性认同、高校的创新管理、志愿组织与志愿者之间的关系是大学生志愿服务激励机制的重要方面。中美大学生志愿服务激励机制的比较结果表明：志愿服务是一种“有限自愿”行为,需要强化国家在法律规章合法性建构方面的主导性,提升大学生志愿服务在国家社会生活中的显著度;大学生志愿服务行动呈“弥散分布结构”,需要高校建立统一认证考评体系,并将其纳入课程学分、就业指标与素质教育的框架;志愿组织培育好与志愿者的关系,以平等沟通与深度参与方式开发志愿服务的多元活动网络,有助于从内在的满足感与成就感方面激发大学生的志愿热情。     

Institutionalizing fairness in financial markets: Mission impossible?

This article analyzes the institutionalization of process‐oriented regulation, namely: regulatory institutions that allow firms to adapt regulation to their individual circumstances, while holding them to account for the adequacy and efficacy of their internal compliance systems. The article's main focus is on the strategies sought by compliance professionals to attain managers' receptiveness to regulatory expectations. It analyzes British financial firms' responses to a process‐oriented regulatory initiative, which sought to transform the widespread culture of product “mis‐selling” in this industry. Three key arguments and hypotheses are put forward: first, it is suggested that the existing theoretical literature on process‐oriented regulation overly stresses managers' rational, profit‐maximizing motivations for (non‐)compliance, whilst overlooking their emotive motivations. Second, it is proposed that managers' emotive resistance is expected when regulatory expectations challenge firms' “organizational identities” and thereby their individual identities. Third, it is hypothesized that when process‐oriented regulation poses a threat to organizations' identities, its institutionalization will entail delegation of the design and subsequent implementation of compliance systems to managers outside compliance, and reframing of regulatory expectations into existing businesses discourses and methodologies.     

青海省基本公共服务均等化研究

本文立足青海省经济社会发展水平的现实,科学地界定了基本公共服务均等化的定义以及范围,对青海省的一地一市六个民族自治州的基础教育、公共医疗卫生和基本社会保障三方面的数据进行了整理分析。指出当前青海省基本公共服务不均等的状况和程度,并借鉴公共服务理论和实践经验,为青海省公共服务均等化提供可行的思路和对策建议。     

主体性缺失与工具理性选择：社会工作介入工业园区职工服务的角色困境与策略研究

目前，我国处于经济社会转型上升期，职工处于“强资本、弱劳动”的社会环境中，社会工作 参与职工服务成为政府和企业力量的有力补充，经过 20 余年探索，企业社会工作已经形成稳定的服务模式。在 此背景下，本研究以实证调查素材为案例，分别对园区社工服务过程中所承担的支持者、服务提供者、政策影响者、 资源整合者和赋能者的角色困境进行分析和探讨。研究发现，在低社会认知、过多的行政干预和制度缺位下， 园区社工逐渐丧失服务的主体性并趋向于工具理性选择。研究建议，需从服务的信任根基搭建、主体性释放、 制度保障建设和组织能力提升 4 个方面帮助一线社工走出角色困境，向服务的专业化和权威性发展。