廉政立法关系论

构建惩防腐败的体系,完善廉政立法势在必然。而廉政立法的完善,应以廉政基本法为核心,认真梳理现有的法律法规,特别注意处理好一些重要关系,提高廉政立法的质量和水平,使不同层次的廉政法律法规之间相互协调,相得益彰。     

我国惩治巨额财产来源不明罪的现实困境与出路

巨额财产来源不明罪是新时期我国反腐败斗争中经常使用的一个重要罪名。然而从设立至今,它也是备受诘难、争议最多的一个罪名;与世界其它国家类似规定相比,可以看出其主要问题就是法定刑设置过轻。因此,惩治巨额财产来源不明的犯罪必须置身于全球视野之下,结合特定国情,才能探索出真正发挥其功能的立法模式建构。     

African American Child Discipline: Differences Between Mothers and Fathers

Child rearing methods used in African American homes have been the subject of much commentary among social scientists, child welfare, and legal personnel. Much of the deliberation has centered on firm disciplinary techniques used by African American mothers. However, few studies have included the perspectives of African American fathers. This study investigated the differences between African American mothers' and fathers' responses in relation to child misbehavior. Several significant differences were found with mothers utilizing more intense disciplinary methods than African American fathers. Results of this investigation underscored the importance of obtaining the viewpoints of African American fathers as well as mothers in understanding parenting in African American homes.     

对违法行为的分类治理研究——从提高违法成本角度分析

我国违法现象易发、多发,违法成本低是重要原因。对违法行为的处罚标准和查处概率都对违法成本产生重要影响。设定的处罚标准越高、查处概率越高,违法者的违法成本就越高。处罚标准高低是立法问题,查处概率高低则受执法人员数量、执法频率、执法技术水平、执法意愿等多种因素影响。为了提高违法成本,需根据情况适当提高处罚标准,增加执法人员,改进执法技术,但更重要的是提升执法者的执法意愿。     

形式解释论与实质解释论

在构成要件的解释领域有形式解释论与实质解释论之争.形式解释论与实质解释论之争本源上是罪刑法定原则之争.一般而言,形式解释论维护罪刑法定原则的形式侧面,而实质解释论不仅维护罪刑法定原则的形式侧面,也维护罪刑法定原则的实质侧面.相较于形式解释论,实质解释论更注重刑法目的合理性,更能够实现刑罚的妥当性.     

Race Equality after Enoch Powell

Enoch Powell's infamous speech casts a long shadow over race equality in the UK. Looking back to the 1968 Race Relations Bill and then forwards to the present social and political landscape this article explores how an uneven race equality story has been characteristic of the UK approach since Powell's intervention. If the intended objective of the initial and later race equality bills was to reduce ethnic and racial disparities to a marginal or ‘negligible’ level, then we are a great distance from success. If the objective was slightly different, but not unrelated, and sought to reshape public conventions on racism (and ethnic and racial diversity more broadly), then the answer is more complicated but also unfinished.     

Across the border and into the cold: hieleras and the punishment of asylum-seeking Central American women in the United States

Thousands of Central American families are fleeing from violence in their own countries and seeking protection in the US. However, once they enter the country they are immediately confined in temporary holding cells – also called hieleras (iceboxes) due to their extremely low temperatures, where they undergo violence and neglect. The hieleras become the site where the categories of the asylum-seeker, the immigrant, and the criminal become conflated. Asylum-seekers entering the country also enter an already existing racialized structure where Latina/o subjects have been criminalized. This article analyzes the hieleras through a Foucauldian and a transnational feminist lens, and argues that these holding cells work as a site for punishing border crossers and deterring them (and others like them) from pursuing the asylum process; which are displays of both sovereign power and disciplinary power.     

认罪认罚从宽制度中的量刑建议

从世界范围看,量刑建议愈渐具有重要地位是当下刑事司法制度公力协商模式悄然风靡的结果。随着我国认罪认罚从宽制度的确立,检察机关量刑建议的重要性也日益彰显,成为牵动认罪案件诉讼程序运行的关键部分。认罪认罚案件中量刑建议制度产生了较多新的实质变化。新形势下,精准刑与幅度刑在认罪案件量刑建议中均具有了新的价值意义,以精准为主、幅度为辅是较为妥当的量刑建议内容模式。量刑建议的效力问题是落实认罪认罚从宽的关键所在,对于《刑事诉讼法》第201条的规定,应当要有较为清晰的认知,包括量刑建议的效力场域、辅助参考到主要依据的转变、一般应当的规范表述、调整量刑建议的规范缘由、量刑建议异议处理程序。对这些问题的充分有效探讨有助于指导认罪认罚从宽制度实践。     

浅析《治安管理处罚法》三大亮点

《治安管理处罚法》与《治安管理处罚条例》相比有三大亮点:与其它相关法律衔接更加紧密;对社会治安综合治理的规定更具理性化;进一步加强执法监督和注重对公民基本权利的保障, 更具人性化。     

行政许可听证程序中几个问题的梳理

听证制度是行政民主化的产物,有利于保护行政相对人的权利及监督行政机关正确行使权力。我国1996年的《行政处罚法》首次规定了听证程序。2003年8月新颁布的《行政许可法》对听政程序进一步作了规定,同《行政处罚法》相比有很大进步,但仍存在着不足之处。有必要对行政许可听证程序中的几个重要问题进行梳理,以期完善行政许可听证制度。