Detectives Stories and City Life

Detective stories take place mainly in two settings, constantly changing, many faceted big cities filled with strangers, and stable, fairly homogeneous, innocent small towns whose members know one another. The differences in each clarify the qualities of the other. In solving the mystery of the small town, the detective provides moral instruction and restores the town’s innocence. In solving the mystery in the big city the detective reveals the city as part of the mystery and provides the reader with temporary orientation to the city. Mysteries have grown with the growth of the cities and now appear in every country of the world. Harold J. Bershady is an emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book, edited with Renée Fox and Victor Lidz, is After Parson: A Theory of Action for the 21st Century, published by Russell Sage Press, 2005.     

Law Enforcement Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina

Major disasters represent infrequent events that often require response organizations to vicariously learn from the experiences of others in order to improve their operations. A primary mechanism for such knowledge diffusion is the different practitioner and empirical journals for the organizational fields that comprise disaster response. A review of the literature for the law enforcement field, however, reveals that little attention is given to how these organizations manage actual disasters. In particular, the presentation of organizational experiences, whether through case studies or other methodologies, is very limited in the practitioner and empirical literature of this field. This represents a considerable problem for improvements of disaster response operations given that law enforcement agencies represent a key component in such efforts. The research presented in this article is an effort to fill this knowledge gap and thereby facilitate organizational learning to improve future law enforcement disaster response activities. The authors traveled to Mississippi and Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina to examine the response efforts of state and local law enforcement agencies to the storm. The findings from this research are reported here in a lessons‐learned format to inform law enforcement disaster response policy.     

信息化城市管理和谐模式评价体系

就“信息化城市管理模型”中的关键组成部分———评价体系,进行建模。“信息化城市管理模型”的评价体系将以“效能”贯穿其中,一切因素归结于“效能”。     

我国消费信贷立法应借鉴澳大利亚《消费信贷法案》

随着我国金融市场管制的不断削弱,必将会显现出对加强消费信贷立法的需要。我国消费信用立法还很薄弱,澳大利亚《消费信贷法案》中特别体现保障消费者利益的立法精神,有利于信用经营者生存和发展的特别安排、消费信贷合同的担保与保证。信贷提供者、消费供应者及消费者之间关系的有关内容,可为我国消费信贷立法吸收和借鉴;我国应针对消费信贷中存在的主要问题,有步骤地适时合理地吸收和借鉴澳大利亚《消费信贷法案》。     

现代教育技术在教学应用中的问题与对策

从现代教育技术应用的现状来看,在如何认识应用现代教育技术、更新教育观念、创新教学模式,运用教育技术思想、方法来分析和处理教育、教学中的问题等方面还存在一定的问题。解决这些问题,要重视对教师进行现代教育技术应用的培训;在实际应用中注意借鉴国内外先进经验,加强对教学模式的探索和研究,从整体上改进教学结构;同时在教学中教师要有效地应用教育技术。     

论打击多发性侵财案件中的便衣侦查模式

目前,抢劫、抢夺、盗窃等多发性侵财犯罪突出,且呈现出侵害目标广泛,团伙系列作案,作案地点日趋街面化、路面化,作案手段日趋智能化等特点。便衣侦查是新形势下打击多发性侵财案件的有效侦查模式。实施便衣侦查,应以情报信息研判为前提。     

总结宣传韩行通先进典型的实践与启示

先进典型韩行通是大连市典型宣传的成功范例。总结这个典型宣传的实践,可以受到若干启示:领导重视,才能使典型脱颖而出;深入挖掘和准确把握典型的时代内核,才能赋予其强大的生命力;创新宣传形式,才能最大限度地扩大典型的影响面和感召力。     

中国西部财政供养人口适度比例问题研究--经验模型及实证应用

本文运用数理方法对我国西部地区的经济增长与财政供养人口适度比例之间的关系问题进行了系统深入的研究,提出了通过建立数学模型,用静态经验系数和动态经验系数,对贫困地区的政府机构和行政人员数量进行科学控制的新思路.     

再论中国竞争法立法例之选择

世界各国的竞争法已形成三种立法例,以美国为代表的松散立法例不适合中国,以德日为代表的分立式立法也已失去选择的价值。中国应该选择一元化立法例制定《中华人民共和国竞争法》,实行反垄断与反不正当竞争的统一,实现实体规范与程序规则的统一,实现传统竞争规则与转型社会的有机结合。     

Explaining Regulatory Non-compliance: A Survey Study of Rule Transgression for Two Dutch Instrumental Laws, Applying the Randomized Response Method

Within a rational choice framework, secondary data analysis of a survey study on compliance with two Dutch regulatory laws is carried out. Selection of explanatory variables to be considered is guided by a heuristic device, called the Table-of-Eleven. Using adapted logistic regression analysis, we show that self-reported compliance, measured by means of a randomized response procedure, can be explained in terms of benefits of non-compliance, social norms and deterrence, while knowledge and general norm-conformity have no role to play. The impact of various contributing factors turns out to be rather different in size for the two laws.