Comment on Parkinson and Cashmore's (2015) Research and Proposal for Reforming Child Custody Relocation Law: Child Custody Evaluator and Psychological Perspecitve

Parkinson and Cashmore ( 2015 ) described their innovative, qualitative, and longitudinal research program on the experience of Australian families involved in relocation family law litigation. This constructive comment discusses the value and limitations of their main findings. Parkinson and Cashmore's approach is contrasted with the excellent quantitative research on the effects of residential mobility on children of divorce. The author disagrees with Parkinson and Cashmore's position of opposing the use of relocation factors in statute and/or case law so as to not hinder the exercise of judicial discretion any further, but agrees with their integration of the least detrimental alternative concept into a relocation analysis.     

Putting risk factors in their place: an evolutionary-developmental approach to understanding risk

ABSTRACT

The assessment of criminal risk plays a prominent role in the criminal justice systems of many different countries and risk assessment is employed in a number of different domains. Given the importance of risk assessment tools in forensic contexts, and the amount of research devoted to evaluating their accuracy in predicting re-offending, it might be expected that risk assessment tools are grounded in our best theoretical understanding of the causal processes that give rise to criminal actions. However, it is not at all clear that this is the case. In this article, I will argue that one important area of neglect is the failure to fully engage with the literature in developmental and life-course criminology which also has directed an enormous amount of effort in to identifying risk factors for offending. At the heart of this neglect, I will claim, is the failure to fully recognise the key distinction between predicting offending and predicting re-offending. I will further argue that an evolutionary developmental perspective provides the theoretical resources to provide fully explanatory accounts of offending and re-offending, and in which risk factors can be appropriately located. I conclude by briefly considering some implications for theory, research, and practice.     

The Hierarchy of Case Priority (HiCaP):- A proposed method for case prioritisation in digital forensic laboratories

The need for digital forensic science (DFS) services has grown due to widespread and consistent engagement with technology by members of society. Whilst digital evidence often plays an important role in many inquiries, available investigative resources have failed to keep pace with such demand for them. As a result, the use case prioritisation models for backlog/workload management are of increasing importance to ensure the effective deployment of laboratory resources. This work focuses on the concept of ​​case prioritisation in a digital forensic laboratory setting, following the submission of exhibits for examination, where this workflow is described. The challenges of case management and prioritisation in laboratories are discussed, with both ‘case acceptance’ and ‘case prioritisation’ procedures explained. Finally, the ‘Hierarchy of Case Priority’ (HiCaP) - a transparent, risk-based approach for the prioritisation of cases for examination, is proposed and described using examples.     

反思与重构:非物质文化遗产资源司法保护的知识产权路径探究

本文试以非物质文化遗产资源的知识产权保护路径为视角,首先从域内外的判例入手展开实证解读,梳理司法实践中权利保护的现实困境;其次以非遗资源与知识产权内在属性的冲突、价值理念的弥合及保护机制的协调为着眼点,追溯非遗资源知识产权司法保护的理论根源;在此基础上从不同层面研究现存问题并提出完善对策,主要着眼于理念层面的价值构建与实践层面的争议思考,主张从价值层面平衡多元利益,呵护原创制度本旨;从理念层面倡导合作共赢,完善原始权利保障;从制度层面强调分类施策,区分智力成果类型;从实践层面注重完善机制,优化司法规则设计。以期对于深化非遗资源保护,优化创新驱动发展战略,并完善法治化营商环境有所裨益。     

行政组织法视角下环境标准制度的反思与完善

我国环境标准制度的症结是自我规制理念的缺失。德国法带来的启示是强化由半官方的中间组织主导环境标准的制修订工作。因而,在行政组织法和程序法上,应实现由标准化技术委员会或专家组承担起草审查工作、以公众理性制衡专家理性、保障决策者的中立性、促成公众积极参与并确立政府对程序的监督。如此改革后,环境标准虽不是国家法规范,但仍可对环境执法和司法审判发挥一定指引作用。     

青年马克思对现代性政治的批判与超越——以《黑格尔法哲学批判》中“长子继承制”批判为例

把青年马克思对黑格尔“长子继承制”的批判置于现代性政治语境下进行探讨,可以看到黑格尔与马克思都致力于和解现代性政治分裂本质所带来的诸种社会后果。但二人给出的现代性政治和解方案存在重大差异:黑格尔以代表普遍性的伦理实体“国家”(“长子继承制”是其内在构成部分),去调节和规范重在实现个体利益的市民社会。但马克思认为,黑格尔的“国家”并不具有其原本企求的社会性和普遍性,其“长子继承制”实际上不过是私有财产的最高级形式,即独立自主的私有财产。它潜在地隐含着有产者与无产者的对立,以及前者支配后者的关系。因此,就本质而言,黑格尔的现代性政治和解方案并不成功。青年马克思坚信,现代性政治的真正和解方案,只能诉诸意味着政治国家消亡的“真正的民主制”,并在《1844年经济学哲学手稿》中进一步将其表述为对私有财产积极扬弃的共产主义运动。     

Intellectual disability in a prison population with anger problems in Trinidad

This paper describes the characteristics of groups of prisoners selected to take part in an anger management programme in prisons in Trinidad. Participants completed demographic measures, an IQ assessment, mental health measures and anger rating scales. Fifty-six inmates were screened with the WASI-2 and characteristics of this group are explored in this paper. The mean IQ for the group was 72.34 and 22 had a recorded IQ below 70 (37.5%). All of the respondents reported high levels of mental health problems with their mean ratings on the SCL-90 being closer to those of inpatient psychiatric group norms than non-clinical groups. A score of less than 70 on the WASI-2 is not sufficient for a diagnosis of an Intellectual Disability. Nevertheless, the results suggest that a significant number of individuals in these prisons may have an Intellectual Disability. More research is needed to help identify these individuals and provide support.     

Desgolonizando los derechos de propiedad. derechos indígenas comunales y el paradigma de la propiedad privada

The professional legal elites in Latin America often legitimate the importation of foreign legal models without neither taking enough attention to local contexts nor making a critical analysis of the imported models. This essay analyzes the arguments of a paradigmatic work of this type that affirms the efficiency and superiority of Anglo-Saxon Law in the regulation of property and the achievement of “economic development”, compared with the Law derived from Spanish colonization. The three theoretical sources of the mentioned work are the theory of legal origins, the private property school and a biased vision of colonization. The aim of this essay is to demonstrate that these theoretical sources have deep ethnocentric roots by making invisible the indigenous communal legality in the colonizer project.     

“应当首先满足业主需要”的规范性质探究————《物权法》第74条第1款的解释论

《物权法》第74条第1款的规范性质不同于任意性规范,其不是对合同当事人的意思表示的解释或者补充,也不同于授权第三人规范,所涉及的利益不是特定第三人的利益,而是业主群体的利益,同时也得不出赋予业主撤销权的解释结论。按照强制性规范所规范的三种领域而言,《物权法》第74条第1款应当属于强制性规范,且属于其中的效力性强制规范。违反此种具体强制性规范的后果,须结合《合同法》第52条第5项的规定,当属无效。