The `Ideal' Victim v Successful Rape Complainants: Not What You Might Expect

This article proposes that feminist legal critics need to be able to explain how some rape cases succeed in securing convictions. The means by which rape cases are routinely disqualified in the criminal justice system have received widespread attention. It is well established in feminist legal critique that female complainants are discredited if they fail to conform to an archaic stereotype of the genuine or ‘real’ rape victim. This victim is not only morally and sexually virtuous she is also cautious, unprovocative, and consistent. Defence tactics for discrediting rape testimony involve exposing the complainant's alleged failure to comply with the sexual and behavioural standards of the normative victim. This understanding of how rape complain(an)ts are disqualified is not predictive, however, of the complainants whose cases succeed in securing convictions. This article reviews some successful Australian rape cases and considers the ways in which they disturb feminist understandings of how rape complaints are discredited in the criminal justice system. It proposes that recent research analysing the discourse of rape trials provides a way of explaining the apparent discrepancies between the ‘ideal’ rape victim and successful complainants. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Sequencing of intersecting lines by combined lifting process and scanning electron microscopy

The chronological order in which two intersecting writing or typed strokes were made can be determined for several combinations of writing media by scanning electron microscope (SEM) examination, a lifting and transfer technique using Kromekote paper, or a combination of the transfer technique followed by SEM examination of the remaining material in the intersection. When non-destructive examination cannot provide unambiguous determination of sequence, judicious choice by the document examiner of which technique to use for a given combination of writing media and paper type can be made using known characteristics of the materials involved. The range of line-crossings which can be reliably sequenced is greater using a combined transfer and SEM technique than when the examination is limited to either technique alone.     

教学过程中知识的社会建构—一种知识社会学的观点

知识是一个不断生成着的概念。人的知识是在社会中不断建构起来的,它具体存在于人与人之间的活动和交往过程中。教学过程中的知识是由教师和学生共同建构起来的。知识的建构过程充满着矛盾和斗争,即作为合法化的教科书知识与建立在个人生活经验基础上的教师和学生的个人知识之间的矛盾和斗争,充斥着整个教育教学过程。在看似客观公正的知识传输背后隐藏着不同权力和利益之间的斗争。     

中国共产党对"以德治国"的认识历程

中国共产党对"以德治国"的认识经历了两个阶段.建国初期,党和政府即提出了基本的道德标准.自改革开放以来,党和政府确立了基本的道德规范.在建立社会主义市场经济体制过程中,江泽民同志适时地提出了"以德治国"的基本方略,这是对治国方略的重大发展.落实以德治国的方略如同落实以法治国的方略一样,任重而道远.     

U.S. CLS

This essay offers a brief account of the rise of cls thought in the United States and of its development within a largely hostile legal academy. As the essay suggests, cls thought has been variously deformed, arrested, normalized, and diffused – leaving the contemporary American legal academy in a state of suspended animation. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

高职多媒体专业基于工作过程系统化的课程体系研究

随着高职教育和现代多媒体技术的发展，建立“基于工作过程系统化”的多媒体专业课程体系已成为高职多媒体专业探索和深化教学改革的重要任务。本文从基于工作过程系统化的需要出发，提出了多媒体人才培养的思路，探索了基于工作过程系统化多媒体专业课程的研究方法，确立了“基于工作过程系统化”多媒体专业课程体系。     

现代行政法学的建构与政府规制研究的兴起

早期行政法学普遍经历了从行政科学到法律科学的转向,而现代行政法学则从以司法审查为中心转向以行政过程为中心。发韧于20世纪六七十年代的政府规制理论为现代行政法学提供了一个强有力的分析工具,有助于革新传统行政法的概念架构和学理体系,建立起对真实世界行政过程有解释力的现代行政法学体系。     

三十年改革开放的回顾与思考

中国改革开放30年取得了举世瞩目的成就,使社会主义中国的面貌发生了历史性的变化。改革开放是决定当代中国命运的关键选择,改革开放的历史进程和伟大成就证明中国改革开放的方向和道路是完全正确的。面对新的形势和任务,中国不但要继续坚持和深化改革,更要坚决排除“左“和右的干扰,始终保持改革开放的正确方向;必须适时地把以经济领域为重点的改革转向全面改革;必须坚持总体规划、分步实施、整体推进的改革思路。     

浅谈深化新时期贵阳市人民调解工作

新时期如何发挥人民调解在化解社会矛盾、防范社会风险方面的作用,亟待我们思考和总结。针对贵阳市现状,应从提高认识、加强宣传,提升调解队伍素质,抓好调解工作流程规范,整合力量等方面入手。     

抉择于形式合理性与实质合理性的法律解释——源于对“法官经商案 ”的再思

在“法官经商协议有效案”中，法官认为被告所签经商协议之效力不因违反法官不得经商之法律规定而无效，其中所隐含的法律解释逻辑及深层理论基石是形式合理性与实质合理性之间的博弈——兼顾法律规定字面含义而符合法律体系划分所体现的法治精神的温和的实质合理性。从法经济学的角度观之，此种解释的当代合理性在于实现了效益最大化。