Is Social Work the Best Educational Degree for Child Welfare Practitioners?

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this three-year research project was to identify the educational and training needs of public child welfare case managers and recommend baccalaureate programs that would best meet those needs. Surveys, focus groups, and content analyses were used to identify the learning needs. The social work curricula were found to contain the most comprehensive match of skill development and theoretical and values content with the learning needs of case managers.     

Issues in Risk Assessment in Child Protective Services

ABSTRACT

Child welfare organizations throughout North America have expended millions of dollars to develop, implement, and institutionalize formal risk assessment models to improve decision making for maltreated children and their families. This article summarizes findings of the risk assessment literature and concludes that many risk assessment protocols currently in use may not improve either the consistency or the accuracy of protective service decisions for maltreated children. The article recommends strategies to improve decisions that promote child safety by utilizing a continuum of empirically supported decision making tools, each designed for a specific purpose during the life of the case.     

教师虐童涉罪行为的刑法分析

教师虐童案件频发,对其中构成犯罪的行为是以寻衅滋事罪还是以虐待罪处罚在学界存在争议。司法实践中多认定为寻衅滋事罪,但是这并不合适。从长远考虑,应当适当扩大虐待罪主体范围,将虐童情节作为该罪告诉才处理原则的例外,据此以虐待罪规制教师虐童犯罪,以保护未成年人合法权益。     

论虐童犯罪的刑法规制

浙江温岭虐童案引发了学界对虐童行为刑法规制问题的思考.儿童身心的稚嫩性、虐待行为对其伤害的潜在性以及不利影响的深远性,类似的虐童行为具有严重的社会危害性,对此有必要予以刑法规制.考虑到罪名的逻辑结构,以及为体现对儿童的特别保护精神,增设虐童罪是一种更为合理的选择.     

儿童最佳利益：少年司法社会支持体系之伦理议题

少年司法社会支持体系是司法实务部门探索创新和理论研究的热点,然而相关伦理问题的研究仍是空白。通过社会支持和社会化处遇使得进入刑事诉讼程序的未成年人获得适当保护是“儿童利益最大化”原则在少年司法中的体现。保障儿童最佳利益的“责任伦理”是少年司法社会支持主体责任中政府主导、社会力量广泛参与的伦理基础,也是平衡“国家亲权”与“父母亲权”的伦理依据。社会力量对未成年人进行社会支持的过程中,应当遵循平等与尊重、接纳与认可、赋权与发展等基本伦理规范,以最大限度地保障儿童最佳利益。     

夫妻财产推定规则的伦理分析——以《婚姻法解释(三)》第7条为视角

我国婚姻法实行夫妻婚后所得财产推定为夫妻共同所有的法定夫妻财产制,并与约定财产制相结合,同时规定夫妻个人财产的范围.《婚姻法解释(三)》第7条关于婚后父母赠与不动产归属的规定,无疑为婚姻家庭领域的财产纠纷提供了可操作性的依据,但在逻辑体系和法律推定规则上与现行婚姻法存在矛盾之处.所以,有必要探究其原因并对我国夫妻财产推定规则在理论上和制度上加以必要的调整.     

The Ethical Dilemma of Cross-Race Marriage: A Review of William Gardner Smith's South Street

Through the depiction of the tragedy of cross-race marriage in South Street, William Gardner Smith reveals the conflicts between marital ethics and ethnic passing in American society, making invectives against the repression and destruction of humanity in racial discrimination and prejudice. The racial complex, negative acculturation and judicial injustice combined together greatly do harm to the legal rights of cross-race marriage and result in the loss of social marital ethics, widening the gap between whites and blacks. The racist situational field leads black and white people into a terrific trap of marital ethics. Any of white people's restriction on or deprivation of blacks' marital freedom is a violation of social ethics. Family members as well as friends' well-meaning interference in cross-race marriage is unfavorable to the people pursuing happy marriages. This novel expands the themes of African American urban naturalistic fiction, blaming the systematic power and situational power, which are caused by white racism and black internalization of racism, for the hindrance, repression and destruction of the marriage based upon true love, and thus highlighting the greatness and limitation of human nature.     

Disconnected relationship values and marriage policies in England

The article examines relationship values which influence the government’s marriage-related policies. It constructs a framework of core values as the ‘conception of the desirable’ to highlight a central problem for the government: there are many conflicting values that can be identified as potentially relevant. Traditional morality and equality highlight marriage as the ultimate goal for heterosexual and same-sex couples by emphasising responsibility, commitment and stability to encourage and strengthen couple relationships. The articulation of these values associated with celebrating marriage is evident in policies such as transferable tax allowances for married couples and couple relationship education. However, marriage is a public and a private institution which encompasses disconnected values. The article analyses the different values that policy-makers confront by examining evidence from interviews with stakeholders which suggests that marriage-related policies do not necessarily resonate with various actors’ understanding of relationship values. They compete with values such as individual autonomy, the desire for financial security and diverse relationships.     

The human right to marry: a refugee’s perspective

In the European Court of Human Rights cases of Muñoz Díaz v Spain in 2009 (Muñoz Díaz v Spain [2009], Application No. 49151/07) and Serife Yigit v Turkey in 2010 (Serife Yegit [2010], Application No. 3976/05), involving unregistered/informal ‘marriages’ of a Roma couple and a Muslim couple, respectively, the Grand Chamber took the position that civil marriages are available to all people in the state without distinction and therefore no breach of Article 12’s right to marry (nor Article 14’s prohibition of discrimination) had occurred when the respective states failed to recognise the informal marriages of the applicants. This article considers these two cases, and asks whether the court’s position is challenged by migrants/refugees, whose access to formal marriages maybe impeded due to a lack of identity and status documentation.