Drug use and pretrial misconduct in New York city

Is recent drug use significantly associated with pretrial misconduct? Does consideration of recent drug use enhance risk classification among a sample of persons who have time free pending the disposition of their cases? Using data on arrestees in Manhattan, this paper examines these issues and some related questions. To measure recent drug use, urine samples were collected from persons shortly after their arrest and tested for four drugs: heroin, cocaine, PCP, and methadone. Two measures of pretrial misconduct are considered: whether a defendant fails to appear for a scheduled court date (FTA) and whether a defendant is rearrested prior to case disposition. Censored probit models are used to estimate the statistical association between drug test results and pretrial misconduct. Results show that drug test results are significantly associated with pretrial misconduct over and above the information typically available to judges at the time release decisions are made. Some implications of these findings for pretrial decision making are discussed.     

浅论我国金融安全问题

加强金融监管,防范金融风险,保持金融稳定,是顺利推进金融改革和发展的基础,是贯彻执行国家宏观调控政策的必要条件,是维护国家经济安全的重要保证。随着我国对外开放的不断深入,加入WTO使我国金融市场的开放成为一种必然趋势,来自外部的风险与日俱增,如何在获得开放利益的同时确保民族金融安全,已成为我国现在必须着手解决的重大问题。     

试析印度经济增长

本文叙述了印度经济增长的基本状况,对影响印度经济增长相关要素进行了论述,透析了未来印度经济增长的潜力和空间,并揭示了印度经济增长面临的困境。     

中国资产证券化SPV模式选择的法律思考

资产证券化是30年来世界金融领域最重大和最具生命力的创新之一.SPV作为资产原始权益人与投资者之间的中介,是资产证券化交易结构的核心.资产证券化选择何种模式,关键在于选择何种形式设立SPV.在我国目前的法律环境下,选择信托公司作为SPV模式较为可行,但也存在一些法律障碍.为此,必须通过专门立法,明确SPV法律地位,赋予信托受益权证有价证券的法律性质,并为其流通做好准备工作.     

农村公共产品多元合作供给绩效的影响因素

农村公共产品供给绩效一直不高,农村公共产品的多元合作供给方式并没有根本缓解农村公共产品的供需矛盾。改善农村公共产品多元合作供给绩效的首要问题就是剖析其影响因素,探索促进合作关系顺利、稳定运行的因素和措施。针对此问题,文章在界定农村公共产品多元合作供给及供给绩效的基础上,以农村公共产品多元合作供给关系的演进过程为切入点,探讨如何促进合作关系的演进,并从中提炼能够形成稳定的合作关系、改善多元合作供给绩效的要素和路径,最后提出能够保证农村公共产品多元合作供给绩效实现的对策建议,以期为农村公共产品供给实践提供理论参考。     

Silence and Catastrophe: New Reasons Why Politics Matters in the Early Years of the Twenty‐first Century

Megaprojects are systems of highly concentrated power whose footprints, or radius of effects, are without precedent in human history. Once upon a time, even under imperial conditions, most people on our planet lived and loved, worked and played within geographically limited communities. They never had to reckon with all of humanity as a factor in their daily lives. Whenever they acted recklessly within their environment, for instance, they had the option of moving on, safe in the knowledge that there was plenty of Earth and not many others. Whenever bad things happened, they happened within limits. Their effects were local. The politics of megaprojects radically alters this equation; it poses new questions about the governance of risk and the nature and limits of democratic politics. The politics of megaprojects—put simply—raises fundamental questions about the ‘life and death of democracy’.     

风险社会中刑事司法程序若干问题的思考

在风险社会中,科技发展也促进了犯罪形势的变化,刑法理论在某些方面已经作了一定改变。基于刑事一体化的考虑,刑事司法程序也应作出相应变化。“9·11”事件对传统刑事司法程序理念冲击很大,刑事程序中科技证据的运用和刑事公益诉讼的完善,应引起一定的关注。     

Preferences,Knowledge, and Citizen Probability Assessments of the Terrorism Risk of Nuclear Power

How does the American public assess risk when it comes to national security issues? This paper addresses this question by analyzing variation in citizen probability assessments of the terrorism risk of nuclear power plants. Drawing on the literature on how motivated reasoning, selective information processing, and domain‐specific knowledge influence public opinion, we argue that heterogeneous issue preferences and knowledge of nuclear energy and homeland security have important explanatory power. Using original data from a unique 2009 national survey in the United States, we show that Americans are divided in their probability assessments of the terrorism risk of nuclear power plants. Consistent with our theoretical expectations, individuals who support using nuclear power to meet rising energy demands, who are generally less concerned with terrorism, or who are more knowledgeable about terrorism and nuclear security tend to provide lower assessments of the likelihood that nuclear power plants increase terrorist attacks, and vice versa. The findings have implications for the literature on public opinion, risk assessment, energy policy and planning, and homeland security.     

建构主义视域中的风险及其动态治理——以面粉增白剂的存废为例

风险是未来损失的可能性,具有社会建构的特征,"面粉增白剂"之争验证了建构主义风险理论。在建构主义视域中,风险治理不仅要使风险最小化,还要实现其他的政治和道德目标,并对影响风险的诸多因素进行反思。风险的动态治理,是实现制度动态效率的必然选择。它的有效性以结果为导向,合理性以未来为导向,进而需要不断学习,吸收新思想新观念,并逐步形成一种新的治理文化。     

关于博物馆临时展览的成功因素分析

近年来,博物馆举办的临时展览越来越多,这给博物馆注入了勃勃生机,也显示出博物馆在社会主义精神文明建设中不可替代的重要作用。同时我们也在思考:怎样才能使临时展览获得成功?或者说临时展览的成功因素有哪些?探讨和分析这一问题,将有助于推动未来的临时展览更上一层楼。