罪犯严重违规现象分析及预防——以福建某几所监狱为例

罪犯严重违规是对监管改造秩序的严重破坏，对罪犯严重违规的处置预防是保障监管安全的最后一道防线。综合分析福建几所监狱近三年来严重违规的数据，研究其发展趋势，提出预防应对措施，可为缓解改造矛盾、保障监管安全、确保监狱工作顺利开展提供参考。     

Commentary

Abstract

Women prisoners make up a small percentage of the prison population, yet they are the fastest growing population in prison, especially among women of color. Many of these women are typically young, poor, and uneducated mothers, and they often encounter an assortment of social and health problems while incarcerated. This commentary examines some of the issues that predispose women of color to commit crimes and the challenges they face in the New York State prison system.     

Negotiating normative premises in democracy promotion: Venezuela and the Inter-American Democratic Charter

ABSTRACT

This article analyses negotiations on democracy promotion by looking at the case of the Inter-American Democratic Charter. It argues that Venezuela contested the concept of representative democracy during the Charter negotiations, advancing the notion of “participatory and protagonist democracy” and that, even if it was unsuccessful in its demands, the country contributed to deepening the debate on the concept of democracy, on which there is far from worldwide consensus. The article suggests that the main drivers of the negotiation process and the final agreement were domestic political changes in Venezuela, specific features of the negotiations, and the structural position of Venezuela in the field of democracy promotion in the global and regional contexts, which were, at the time, favourable to a compromising attitude to conclusion of the Charter, even if not to the concept of democracy.     

Do volatile voters vote less correctly? An analysis of correct voting among vote (intention) switchers in US presidential election campaigns

The literature on electoral volatility and the literature on electoral campaigns hold contradictory views on voters switching vote (intention) during the campaign. In this note, we shed new light on this contradiction, making two contributions. First, we investigate the extent to which stable and volatile voters choose the correct party. Second, we distinguish levels of correct voting and the impact of the act of switching on the correctness of the vote. Our analyses of vote-switching in American elections show that, while volatile voters are less likely to vote correctly, they are more likely to switch from an incorrect to the correct party than vice versa. Furthermore, we show that following the campaign more closely makes voters more likely to switch vote (intention) towards the correct party.     

暂予监外执行罪犯适用假释的必要性与可行性分析

暂予监外执行是刑罚执行的变通方式,并未改变刑罚的种类和内容,对该类罪犯适用假释是对暂予监外执行性质的肯定,也是人人平等原则的要求,同时也可提高司法效率以及假释的适用率。有效地判断该类罪犯的人身危险性和社会危害性是其适用假释的基础,实践中的立法和案例则为暂予监外执行罪犯适用假释的法律化提供了经验。     

监狱企业财务管理存在的问题与对策

随着监狱体制改革的实施，监狱企业开始成为真正的经营和理财主体，但目前监狱企业财务管理还不能很好地适应体制改革的要求。因此，必须认真分析监狱企业财务管理中存在的问题，研究强化监狱企业财务管理的对策，从而推动监狱事业不断向前发展。     

清末民初浙江监狱改良与日本

本文为中国近代转型时期以日本为媒介移植西方法律制度的个案事例研究。着重关注的是清末官绅对日考察,不同于已有较多成果的清末留日研究。据《申报》记载,包括浙江在内的十省于1906年联合派遣正佐官员五十名赴日考察监狱。该史料已为相关研究者所关注,但这些"调查日本监狱员"在日考察的实际状况和回国后的活动至今不为人知。在梳理浙江省派员名单,挖掘其在日活动史料基础上,进一步追踪其中三人回国后在浙江省监狱改良中作出的贡献。     

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Adopting Open Educational Resources in an Introductory American Government Course

In this article, we present findings from a grant-funded initiative to replace traditional, proprietary textbooks with an open content textbook under a Creative Commons license in the introductory American government course (POLS 1101) at Middle Georgia State University. We find that the use of an open content textbook led to somewhat negative effects on student learning outcomes and student course satisfaction, although the associated lower textbook cost increased textbook accessibility to students. We conclude with some suggestions to those adopting textbooks in this course and to the wider discipline regarding measures that may lead to more unequivocally positive outcomes than those experienced in this study.     

美国外交关系委员会对美国外交的影响

美国外交关系委员会作为美国历史最悠久、最重要的外交思想库,其政策设想一贯秉持服务于美国政府、美国国家利益的目的,并与政府建立了长期合作关系。本文拟简要梳理美国外交关系委员会的历史流变,考察外交关系委员会影响美国外交的方式,探讨外交关系委员会对美国外交的影响。     

监狱体制改革后监狱警察激励机制创新——激励主体、激励客体与组织文化研究

监狱警察激励机制是指在监狱警察组织文化背景下，由监狱警察激励主体、客体以及主客体之间的相互作用所构成的有机系统。我国监狱警察激励机制的建设取得了瞩目的成就，但是有些问题在监狱体制改革后进一步凸显出来。本文基于调查数据，着重从激励主体、激励客体和组织文化方面，为我国监狱体制改革后监狱警察激励机制的创新提出了对策建议。