Exploratory trial of schema-focussed therapy in a forensic personality disordered population

The management of needs and risks in personality disordered offender populations has become a focus for health and criminal justice services in the UK. Recent studies demonstrate the effectiveness of schema focussed therapy (SFT) for patients with borderline personality disorder. This study was an exploratory trial of the feasibility of implementing SFT in a population of patients with personality disorder in a high secure hospital in England. Preliminary evaluations of the effects of SFT were conducted to investigate whether those receiving SFT demonstrated significant improvements on measures of anger, impulsiveness, schemata and interpersonal style. No significant effects were evident although there was a significant increase in defectiveness/shame schema in the SFT group. Lack of effectiveness of SFT is likely due to the preliminary nature of this study. Future trials of SFT need to ensure comprehensive therapist preparation, control of TAU, bigger samples, address attrition and provide more intensive therapy.     

Youth hate crime offending: the role of strain,social control and self-control theories

Much of the existing research on hate crime focuses on the perspective of victims, while relatively little is known of the offenders. This study examines the prevalence of hate-motivated offending in the form of assaults and bullying, and variables that may explain some of the influences for such behaviour. It compares hate-motivated offenders to both non-offenders and offenders committing non-hate-motivated acts. Our data are based on a nationally representative youth survey collected in 2012 (n = 4,855) from Finnish students attending ninth grade (ages 15–16). It relies on three central theories in criminology: strain, social control and self-control theories. Frequent parental fighting, low parental supervision, low social control and male gender were significant factors in explaining hate crime offending. Our results suggest that the three criminological theories are relevant in the analysis of hate crime offending among Finnish youth.     

承接产业转移与政府的生态选择

无论从理论还是从实践来考察,承接产业转移需要解决的最大问题都是发展与生态的问题。政府作为承接产业转移的主导,如何定位自己的生态职责？如何作出科学的生态决策？如何找准发展与生态的结合点,处理好发展经济与保护环境的关系？这的确是一个很耐思量和需要深入探讨的问题。     

基于循环型生态农业基础上的兰州现代农业模式构建

农业经济的落后已成为兰州市全面建设小康社会的主要制约因素。以发展循环型生态农业为切入点构筑现代农业新模式,实现农业内部各产业之间以及与之相关的其他产业间的互补与联功发展,是提升兰州农业发展水平,实现城乡统筹发展的必由之路。     

习近平法治思想的生态文明法治理论之法理创新

习近平法治思想的生态文明法治理论,构成习近平法治思想和习近平生态文明思想的重要组成部分,是一个内涵丰富、体系完备的理论体系,在价值论、关系论和方法论等几个层面综合实现了生态环境法治的理论创新。在价值论层面,从拓展人的全面价值、彰显和谐发展价值和引入生态安全价值等方面,创新了传统法律价值理论;在法律关系论层面,生态文明法治理论淡化了人与自然的主客体关系二元论,进而主张参与环境公共事务的主体“多元化”、彰显了多类客体之间的结构性;在方法论层面,习近平法治思想的生态文明法治理论秉持整体观方法、倡导协同治理方法、坚持底线思维方法,为我国生态文明法治建设与制度实施提供了理论指导与方法指引。     

How Can Weak Insurgent Groups Grow? Insights From Nepal

How can insurgent groups that are militarily far weaker than the state survive and grow? Influential accounts drawing on Kalyvas' “control-collaboration” model argue that limited state reach can make this possible by allowing rebel groups to carve out pockets of control where they can elicit collaboration. I suggest that this account is inadequate. Even states with limited reach are likely to transfer sufficient forces to rebel-affected areas to establish at least partial control. Weak rebels therefore often face the challenge of building capacity without local control to begin with. I identify two broad factors that can make this feasible: first, strong pre-existing rebel networks, which facilitate collaboration through solidarity, norms of reciprocity, and social incentives; and second, counterinsurgency policies and practices that fail to exploit the opportunities that control offers for incentivizing collaboration and shaping political preferences. These arguments are grounded in a fieldwork-based case study of insurgency processes in a hamlet of Rolpa, Nepal.     

GENERAL THEORY OF SPATIAL CRIME PATTERNS*

I propose a general theory for examining the spatial distribution of crime by specifically addressing and estimating the spatial distribution of the residences of offenders, targets, guardians, and their respective expected movement patterns across space and time. The model combines information on the locations of persons, typical spatial movement patterns, and situational characteristics of locations to create estimates of crime potential at various locations at various points in time and makes four key contributions. First, the equations make the ideas involved in the theory explicit, and they highlight points at which our current state of empirical evidence is lacking. Second, by creating measures of spatial “potentials” of offenders, targets, and guardians, this theory provides a precise grounding for operationalizing spatial effects in studies of place and crime. Third, the equations provide an explicit consideration of offenders and where they might travel and, therefore, incorporates offenders into crime‐and‐place research. Fourth, these equations suggest ways that researchers could use simulations to predict stable patterns, as well as changes, in the levels of crime at both micro and macro scales. Finally, I provide an empirical demonstration of the added explanatory power provided by the theory to a study of place and crime.     

失地农民群体性事件防控对策研究

在工业化、城市化的进程中,农民失地问题是目前及今后相当一个时期我国所面临的一个具有高度综合性的复杂问题,众多失地农民的生存和发展问题也必将成为我国政府要着力解决的一个重要问题。农民因失地问题引发的群体性事件在各地具有一定的普遍性,也具有较大的社会危害性。失去土地是引发农民群体性事件的主因,其触发点大都是农民的合法权益受到来自各方面的不法侵害,农民奋起维权,而地方政府处置不当。尽管失地农民群体性事件的发生在触发机制上有其偶然性,但在根源上却有其必然性。失地农民群体性事件的总根源在于：失地农民在丧失生产资料之后生产力的萎缩和生活力的下降。有鉴于此,失地农民群体性事件的防控对策就应把着力点放在恢复、提高失地农民的生产力和生活力上．     

新制度经济学视角下政府成本控制

政府成本是行政学研究领域中具有重要实践意义的课题,目前大部分关于政府成本的研究多从公共行政学、公共财政学甚至行政法学角度展开的。从我国目前政府成本过高的现状出发,以新制度经济学的视角,对政府成本重新界定,从制度内部来探讨政府成本的控制方法,对降低我国政府成本具有重大的现实意义。     

中新天津生态城规划建设中面临的主要生态问题与对策

该文对中新天津生态城规划建设过程中面临的生态环境现状、主要的生态问题进行了分析。在对自然原生态保护、生态系统结构和功能改变以及生物多样性问题分析的基础上,对中新生态城总体规划中涉及到的区域生态网络完整性、生态廊道结构与合理性和绿地结构的合理性进行了分析,最后对中新生态城规划建设中的生态建设与保护提出了建议。