Community rehabilitation workers as catalysts for disability: inclusive youth development through service learning

This paper explores access to health and education for disabled youth in sites with and without community rehabilitation workers (CRWs). A cross-sectional survey using a structured questionnaire was undertaken in nine sites in South Africa, and a snowball sample of 523 disabled youths of both sexes, aged between 18 and 35 years, was selected. The survey found that a significantly larger proportion of disabled youth living in sites with CRWs were seen by health care workers at home, and that there was a large difference in educational access between sites with and without CRWs. CRWs are well positioned to promote equal citizenship for disabled youth through service learning with occupational therapy final year students to improve access to health and education, so that barriers to their participation in economic development are removed.     

Conjuring up the next attack: the future-orientedness of terror and the counterterrorist imagination

Although terrorism is widely understood to be the politically motivated creation of fear by means of violence in a target group, the nature of that fear is seldom explained or even considered. The present article attempts to close that gap by proposing a definition of terror as the apprehension of (more) violence to come. Because every terrorist act is perceived to be part of a potential series, terror is oriented towards the future and involves the imaginary anticipation of prospective events. On the basis of this definition, I will examine the problematical role of counterterrorist discourse. As the statements of public officials and security experts in the run-up to, and during, the “War on Terror” demonstrate, the peculiar dynamic of terror is, seemingly paradoxically, reinforced by counterterrorist rhetoric. With its insistence on the escalatory nature of terrorist violence and its repeated prediction of even worse attacks, counterterrorism contributes to the evocation of terror in the sense proposed here.     

Sisters in Terrorism? Exploding Stereotypes

New Terrorism is increasingly deploying women in the field as combatants. Female suicide bombers have proven to be highly effective, precisely because of the persistence of gender stereotypes in target societies. Women terrorists convey a powerful message of political seriousness, heighten the sense of intimidation and threat, and attract greater mass media attention—all key strategic objectives of New Terrorism. Gender stereotypes are also at work in explanations for women's recourse to terrorist activism. Such stereotypes simplify complex motivations and either overvalue or undervalue women's agency. The net result of this stereotyping is that women end up worse off individually and collectively, domestically and internationally. The lives of women in geopolitical hotspots have become more precarious, and the valorization of women terrorists undermines the quest for women's emancipation in fundamentalist cultures. In Western democracies, paternalistic outrage at women's subordination under fundamentalist regimes may have initially served as a dubious justification for military and other interventions, but the involvement of women in terrorist activism now risks reinforcing an even more dangerous “clash of civilizations” thinking. One effect is to undermine the demands for greater gender equality in Western democracies as well as indirectly support the war on women political agenda domestically.     

夫妻房产约定的法律适用——基于我国约定夫妻财产制的考察

关于房产归属,夫妻之间可采夫妻财产约定形式加以变动,也可以订立赠与合同。前者与夫妻身份密切相关,具有附随身份的特性;后者内容及效力均与夫妻身份无关。在适用法律上,前者适用身份法,约定直接产生物权变动效力,即使未变更登记也无任意撤销权行使余地;后者适用财产法,未变更登记之前赠与方可以撤销赠与。夫妻之间订立的内容不明确的房产变动协议,其性质应推定为夫妻财产约定。     

对"财产权利之道德正当性"的论证——从洛克与诺齐克的权利理论谈起

诺齐克从洛克,即古典自由主义的自然状态和自然权利中推导出人们于国家和政府出现前即享有抽象财产权利,并通过个人劳动获得对某物的具体独占和支配的权利.我们可以对这种自然权利中推导而出的财产权利的道德正当性反思,并对劳动获取原则中可能存在的缺陷和接受洛克的限制性条款所致的财产权利和福利权利的矛盾性共存的困境进行梳理和质疑.在此基础上,John Hasnas所提出的"经验式自然权利"的解释更值推崇.     

跨境犯罪中死刑问题研究

由于中国内地与港澳死刑政策的冲突,及三法域间各自独立的刑事管辖权的并行存在,使得跨境犯罪的死刑案件的司法协助变得更为复杂。本文探讨两个问题:跨境犯罪死刑案件中死刑犯是否该移交及移交的标准。在对前一个问题作出肯定回答的同时,进一步论述在跨境犯罪死刑犯移交中应遵循坚持“属地管辖原则”为基础,加强三法域间平等的“协议管辖”协商。从立法和司法方面进行三法域间刑事方面的联系与协助,有效打击严重的跨境刑事犯罪。     

面对基层民警教师如何授课

民警培训课堂理论教学应运用抓住重点内容、服务公安实践、注重教学创新、突出授课特点和讲求语言艺术等五个方面的授课方法 ,不断提高授课效果和培训质量。     

简析荀子礼治思想的实质

荀子所谓"礼者养也",主要不是养民,而是养君.其思想的根本出发点和归宿,是在礼义基础上保证统治者享有特权的生活.荀子有些被称为具有民本、民权思想的说法,其实并不具有这样的思想.荀子提出隆礼重法,在他那里,在很大程度上,礼就是法,法就是礼;礼具有法的强制性,而法具有礼的"因人而施"的不平等性.两者的合而为一,是与一个真正的法治社会的要求背道而驰的.     

侵犯商业秘密罪的罪过形式探讨

有关侵犯商业秘密罪罪过形式存有诸多观点 ,在评议诸说的基础上认为从法律的规定来看 ,侵犯商业秘密罪的罪过形式包含了故意和过失两种 ,但从应然的角度予以考察 ,则应将过失排除在外     

入世对行政执法的要求

入世在一定意义上是政府入世,入世必将对我国行政执法的整体水平提出更高的要求,其主要体现在行政执法依据、行政执法程序、行政执法监督和救济等几个方面。