Children's criteria for procedural justice: Developing a Young People's Procedural Justice Scale

A Procedural Justice Scale for Young People was developed to examine the criteria that Grades 7 and 9 students thought were important in judging the fairness of the procedures used to judge a case of a hypothetical young thief. A 10-item scale was developed using unidimensional scaling and factor-analytic techniques. The study supports the earlier work on adults by Thibault and Walker (1978) and Tyler (1988) showing that for children too procedural justice concerns make a contribution to satisfaction with the outcomes and procedures of a case.     

Risk assessment of sexual offenders in German forensic institutions

BACKGROUND: The assessment of recidivism in sexual offenders is an urgent topic for forensic psychiatry in Germany. The call for useful predictive measures is therefore getting louder. AIMS: The present study analyses which criteria are employed by therapists in forensic hospitals to assess the dangerousness of sexual offenders. Of particular interest is whether the criteria listed in presently known prediction scores as decisive are actually used in decision-making in current forensic psychiatric practice. METHOD: Data are collected in a prospective prediction study funded by the German Research Association. RESULTS: The results reveal that therapists employ mainly clinical and less historical criteria, thus indicating substantial differences from currently known prediction scores and results of other studies. CONCLUSIONS: That therapists base their prediction of dangerousness primarily on clinical variables reveals a substantial error that has to be remedied. Further research on the extent of relevance of clinical variables is needed.     

Assessing Violence Risk in Stalking Cases: A Regression Tree Approach

Advances in the field of risk assessment have highlighted the importance of developing and validating models for problematic or unique subgroups of individuals. Stalking offenders represent one such subgroup, where fears of and potential for violence are well-known and have important implications for safety management. The present study applies a Classification and Regression Tree (CART) approach to a sample of stalking offenders in order to help further the process of identifying and understanding risk assessment strategies. Data from 204 stalking offenders referred for psychiatric evaluation to a publicly-funded clinic were used to develop and assess putative risk factors. A series of nested models were used to generate tree algorithms predicting violence in this sample of offenders. Both simplified and more extensive models generated high levels of predictive accuracy that were roughly comparable to logistic regression models but much more straightforward to apply in clinical practice. Jack-knifed cross-validation analyses demonstrated considerable shrinkage in the CART, although the models were still comparable to many other actuarial risk assessment instruments. Logistic regression models were much more resilient to cross-validation, with relatively modest loss in predictive power.     

Sexually Violent Predator Evaluations: Empirical Evidence,Strategies for Professionals,and Research Directions

Several states have passed civil commitment laws that allow the precautionary detention of sex offenders who have completed their criminal sentences. Over 2,500 sex offenders have been committed across states with such statutes and several thousand more sex offenders have been evaluated. Most statutes call for an evaluation of risk by a mental health professional and, although each state statute is worded differently, three main elements common to sexually violent predator evaluations are used to guide evaluators: mental abnormality, volitional capacity, and likelihood of future sexual violence. The current article presents empirical evidence for the main tenants of these forensic evaluations, provides recommendations for evaluators in light of current limitations of evidence, and offers suggestions for future research in this area of forensic assessment.     

多媒体课堂教学效果的评价

根据现代高校教学要求与多媒体教学的特点,筛选出对多媒体教学效果影响显著的评价指标及相应的权重,利用模糊综合评价法对调查获得的结果进行客观、定量的评价,从而得到以过程性评价为主的教学评价结论。该结论有利于教师改进教学效果,提高教学质量。     

我国环境影响评价中的公众参与

公众参与是环境影响评价制度的一项重要内容。我国《环境影响评价法》对公众参与做出了较为具体的规定,从而使公众参与更加有法可依。但我国目前环境影响评价中的公众参与现状并不理想,需进一步提高、完善。     

试论"工人参与管理"制度的评估体系

建立"工人参与管理"制度的理论基础是劳动力产权理论、劳动者是劳动力所有者理论、现代企业理论;"工人参与管理"制度的评估体系应包括参与程度、参与等级、参与内容层次、参与性质等几个方面.真正的工人参与是劳动者权利的实现,而不是一种调动劳动者积极性的手段.     

对公安领导“述职报告”的评析

公安领导进行的"述职报告"、民主评议活动,是公安领导科学化的重要环节,对于公安工作的建设和发展具有重要的现实意义.如何避免把述职报告作成报告工作的"流水账"的现象,更好地掌握述职报告的技巧,就要做到树立公安领导效益观念;明确评价标准;胜任公安领导职责.     

新刑法对正当防卫制度的修改评析

本文比较了我国新旧刑法典关于正当防卫制度的规定,对正当防卫制度修改之处进行了评析,提出了修改的成功与与不足之处。经过修改,正当防卫的概念更趋规范、科学;放宽了正当防卫的限度条件,有利于人民群众同违法犯罪作斗争;确立了无限防卫权,强化了公民的正当防卫权,同时也埋下了公民防卫权滥用的隐患。     

城市指标体系比较研究

生态城市、园林城市、可持续发展城市是当今人类社会发展的理想模式。各个国家从各个不同的城市理念给城市的建设与评价提出了各种指标体系,本文从指标体系的构建思路、原则和构建框架及适用范围等方面对多个城市指标体系做分析比较研究,提出适合我国华东地区的生态城市评价指标体系。