Justifying Punishment: A Response to Douglas Husak

In ‘Why Criminal Law: A Question of Content?’, Douglas Husak argues that an analysis of the justifiability of the criminal law depends upon an analysis of the justifiability of state punishment. According to Husak, an adequate justification of state punishment both must show why the state is permitted to infringe valuable rights such as the right not to be punished and must respond to two distinct groups of persons who may demand a justification for the imposition of punishment, namely, individuals subjected to punishment and the society asked to support the institution of punishment. In this discussion, I analyse Husak’s account of the right not to be punished with an eye to showing that the parameters of that right do not extend to the cases that would make it controversial. I also consider two other distinct groups of persons who have equal standing to alleged offenders and society to demand justification for the imposition of state punishment, namely, direct victims of crimes and criminal justice officials.     

弘扬传统 同心同行

在中国共产党迎来90华诞之际,回顾中国共产党90年的光辉历史和民建成长进步的历程,坚持接受中国共产党的领导是民建在长期实践中自身作出的历史的必然选择,也是民建发展历程中形成的最基本的经验和最重要的优良传统.在我国进入全面建设小康社会关键时期,民建作为参政党要大力弘扬与中国共产党团结合作的优良传统,同心同德跟党走、同心同向创伟业、同心同行谋发展,不断提高参政议政能力和水平,为努力实施“十二五”规划献计出力.     

国家与社会关系变迁的公法回应

法律根植于社会,社会变迁与公法的发展紧密相连,社会变迁在制度、观念和应用等层面影响着公法的发展,公法对社会变迁具有推动作用。中国正在经历从政治国家一元社会向政治国家与市民社会并存的二元社会的变迁,这种变迁需具备建立市场经济和确立正确的政府理念两大要素,对中国经济社会发展具有积极意义。与之相适应,中国公法应当在制度层面、观念层面和方法层面对这种变迁作出回应。     

论经济法学语境中的“经济国家”

经济国家是指国家受经济属性的嵌入与公私融合的驱动,超越单纯的政治主权组织而成为经济、社会发展的内生因素与主导力量,在促进经济、社会发展的同时亦引发自身的组织及行为变革。于实践而言,经济国家的发轫与勃兴乃是中国经济和社会成功转轨的根本所在,中国经济法的成长也正是得益于契合了经济国家对法律调整的需求。于经济法学理论而言,经济国家的提出代表着一种以经济与社会实践为根本、以增强经济法学理论解释力为核心的实践性总论研究进路。     

中东欧独联体政治经济转型20年: 约束条件与转型政策、策略选择

回顾中东欧独联体国家转型走过的道路,可以发现,转型的方式和路径受制于转型的约束条件.其中,政治转型与经济转型的相互制约关系尤为复杂.在复杂的约束条件下,转型的政策空间是受限的.转型目标、转型的策略选择与次序安排相互制约,共同规定了转型的基本方向和演进轨迹.     

POSTAL 2 plays in US court - Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association

In an unprecedented legal development, the case of violence in video games has now reached the highest American court. The US Supreme Court is set to decide whether states can restrict minors from buying violent video games in the case of Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association. The decision could have serious implications on the future of First Amendment rights and children’s ’welfare. To resolve Schwarzenegger, the Justices will need to decide how much First Amendment protection should be extended to violent video games and whether minors have a greater constitutional right to violence than they do to obscenity.     

监狱建筑空间文化的现代构略

源于监狱建筑的空间文化,是指融汇于监狱建筑空间反映监狱行刑的人文环境和文化气息的一种文化物质形态,具有封闭性与开放性、固定性与创意性、安全性与陶冶性、人文性与愉悦性等特性,其形态有行政空间文化、监舍空间文化、教学空间文化、劳动空间文化、亲缘空间文化和自然空间文化之分。以文化的内涵、色彩、形象、载体及其文化的符号与艺术的...     

冲击波理论在痕迹分析中的应用

基于物理学对＂冲击波＂的解释,文中将冲击波理论用于解释两种痕迹的形成：一是子弹在空气中的超音速飞行,二是炸药爆炸产物在空气中的膨胀。通过冲击波的痕迹分析,可以判断出子弹的飞行速度或是炸药量的多少,对侦破此类案件具有重大意义。     

论基层政权的“嵌入式治理”——基于鲁中东村的实地调研

本文以鲁中东村为例,分析了乡村治理中国家权力的见缝插针、国家政策地方规约化以及地方对国家力量援引的运作规则与机制,将国家权力嵌入在村庄的社会结构、关系与规范之中,即基层政权的嵌入式治理。它既加强了国家在农村中的权力,同时也维持与强化了地方性结构与规范,实现国家与乡村社会、国家与农民的有效对接,最终实现国家政策的有效执行和地方秩序的稳定。随着国家能力与乡村社会性质发生双重的转变,当前基层政权的治理机制需要从消极的简约治理、单向度的制度建设中转入积极的嵌入式治理。尤其可以借国家政权从汲取型向输入型的转变契机,将农民对国家的认同进一步提升为国家的治理能力,最终实现基层社会的善治。     

No space for citizens? Conceptualisations of citizenship in a functional region

This article aims to discuss whether there is such a thing as citizenship performed at the level of the sub-state region and, if so, how this can be studied. It is suggested that aspects of citizenship should be studied not only in the context of sub-state administrative units, but also in the context of more loosely interconnected functional economic regions. The main argument for this is that, although there is no ‘contract’ between the polity and the citizen in these functional regions, they are often highly politicized spaces, governed by coalitions of public and private actors whose actions can be of considerable importance for those inhabiting them. It is also suggested that, in the absence of formal rights and institutionalized relations between citizens and polity, we need to explore how ‘citizens’ and ‘citizenship’ are conceptualized by the polity in these regions more broadly. The article focuses (a) on the conditions for citizenship in the functional region and (b) on those discourses of citizenship that emerge under the conditions identified. A tentative conclusion is that, in the absence of formal citizenship rights connected to the functional space, a discourse about citizens and citizenship has emerged, which is focuses solely on citizens' capacity to contribute to economic growth.