Interviewing serious offenders: Ms. Egghead meets Mr. Gumshoe

Organised crime, due to its intricate nature, is a very challenging as well as less accessible research field. Although difficult to conduct a methodical research on this topic, organised crime, nevertheless, offers a unique opportunity to utilise an interdisciplinary research methodology. This paper describes (multiple) triangulation as an appropriate method for researching the role of culture in the advancement of ethnic Albanian organised crime groups in Europe. Triangulation, for the purpose of the described project, has been used to obtain confirmation of findings through convergence of different perspectives. Interviewing offenders is one of the research methods more thoroughly explained in this paper. The paper too explores some advantages of snowball technique used for interviewing less accessible research subjects. It also discusses various dilemmas, security-related or not, researchers are faced with when intending to interview serious offenders.

论民办高校的法人性质

我国现行法律既未明确概括民办高校的公法地位,对其私法地位的界定也与学说和制度不洽,致使民办高校的法人性质不明,对民办高校的发展多有不利。本法理论,民办高校应当既是一种民事法律主体,享有法人的经营权;同时也行使一定的教育行政管理职权,具有公法地位。倘若将民办高校的公法地位概括为依法律授权实施教学行政管理的教育机构,将其私法地位界定为社团法人、准公益法人,并特别地将其界定为民办学校法人,则上述问题将能得到相应的解决。     

美、英司法审查受案标准的演化及其启示——以私人承担公共职能为考察对象

起始于上世纪70年代末的公共行政改革,通过合同外包、行政分权等多种手段,使私人成为某些情况下公共职能的承担者。私人对公共行政的实质性参与,引发了诸多行政法问题,其中最紧迫的挑战在于如何将司法审查拓展至承担公共职能的私人主体,而这取决于司法审查受案标准的确定。美、英两国的司法审查已分别对私人承担公共职能作出了回应,即将"行为标准"纳入司法审查受案标准的判断体系,我国可考虑在现有的"主体标准"之下,扩展引入"公共职能"标准,以回应公共行政主体多元化的改革现实。     

试论警察形象建设

人民警察的形象代表着公安机关乃至整个政府工作机关的形象。加强警察形象建设刻不容缓,要妥善处理好建设警察文化、警察道德、强化警察管理、提高警察素质的关系,努力提升人民警察在人民群众心中的形象。     

Policing Australia’s ‘heroin drought’: using an agent-based model to simulate alternative outcomes

Our paper examines how street-level drug markets adapt to a macro-level disruption to the supply of heroin, under three experimental conditions of street-level drug law enforcement: random patrol, hot-spot policing and problem-orientated policing. We utilize an agent-based model to explore the relative impact of abstractions of these three law enforcement strategies after simulating an ‘external shock’ to the supply of heroin to the street-level drug market. We use 3 years of data, which include the period of the ‘heroin drought’ in Melbourne (Australia) that commenced in late 2000 and early 2001, to measure changes in a selected range of crime and harm indicators under the three policing conditions. Our results show that macro-level disruptions to drug supply have a limited impact on street-level market dynamics when there is a ready replacement drug. By contrast, street-level police interventions are shown to vary in their capacity to alter drug market dynamics. Importantly, our laboratory abstraction of problem-orientated policing is shown to be the optimal strategy to disrupt street-level injecting-drug markets, reduce crimes and minimize harm, regardless of the type of drug being supplied to the market.

美国性骚扰法律制度及其借鉴意义

性骚扰是不受欢迎的带有性色彩的言行,是一种非法的性歧视。依美国判例,性骚扰不必源于性的目的,其内容不必是直接的表示;同时,性骚扰行为者在主观上应当是有过错的,受害者在主观上须为不欢迎骚扰行为。构成可诉的性骚扰行为其损害后果须达到严重的程度。依美国最新判例,同性之间也可以构成性骚扰;雇主对员工中的上级职员的性骚扰行为承担民事责任。美国的性骚扰法律制度对我国的立法具有一定的借鉴意义,如公法上的规定并不排除私法的适用,性骚扰的含义应当包含性别歧视,雇主责任应当在立法上得以确立,立法者应当在道德规范和法律规范中寻找平衡点。     

论证明标准的多元化与具体化

鉴于同一诉讼类型的不同案件甚至同一案件在不同诉讼阶段中的不同证明对象等因素的影响,为了避免证明标准“表述抽象,缺乏可操作性”,应当沿着证明标准多元化的基本思路,将“具体化与多元化相结合”作为证明标准问题研究的基本方向。     

中国特色社会信用体系型塑探微

诚信作为一种德行,是各个民族普遍认可的基本道德规范。对个人来说是做人的根本,对社会来说是社会得以形成凝聚力的根基。文明史证明,诚信确保了人类社会健康运转。然而,随着我国进入社会主义市场经济,失信现象日益严重,信用失范已成为市场经济发展的瓶颈,转型期信用危机不容我们忽视。     

国际法与国内法关系的法理学思考——兼论亚洲国家关于这一问题的观点

本文旨在从法理学的高度来探讨国际法与国内法的关系。以法律规范的和谐统一作为科学地认识国际法与国内法关系的逻辑点 ,通过对法的调整机制和内在特质所具有的普遍性进行分析 ,提出了关于国际法和国内法关系的“法律规范协调说”。     

国际经济法的性质--以WTO规则为例的研究

经济的国际法是国际经济法的基本框架,国际经济法缺乏体系性、确定性和一致性,WTO对发展中国家有许多不利之处,必须在本国经济的发展和开放中对此保持清醒的认识.