用社会主义核心价值体系引领社会思潮的有效途径

党十七大报告提出“积极探索用社会主义核心价值体系引领社会思潮的有效途径“,这是党的宣传思想战线面临的一项新的时代课题,也是必须在实践中解决好的艰巨任务。本文认为必须强化用社会主义核心价值体系引领社会思潮的指导性、针对性、创新性。及时了解思想理论领域的各种倾向性问题、增强党的思想理论工作的说服力和感召力、营造舆论强势形成社会共识、把社会主义核心价值体系融入国民教育和精神文明建设全过程等是用社会主义核心价值体系引领社会思潮的有效途径。     

论交通肇事后“因逃逸致人死亡”

我国刑法第133条规定,“交通肇事后,因逃逸致人死亡的,处7年以上有期徒刑。”由于立法的不明确,在理解“因逃逸致人死亡”的问题上,众说纷纭,可谓百家争鸣。对于“因逃逸致人死亡”的定性与处罚,不能不加区分地一律适用刑法第133条第3档法定刑,而应根据刑法的具体规定,结合行为人的主客观情况,作出正确的定罪与量刑。     

经济全球化对广东地区刑事犯罪趋势的影响

经济全球化对社会、政治、经济、文化、法律等各层面都产生深刻影响,它改变制约犯罪的各种因素,影响刑事犯罪的发生、发展规律,对广东未来犯罪趋势同样有着重大影响和重要作用。从广东地区近年来的刑事犯罪数据看,经济全球化对犯罪数量变化、犯罪结构变化、犯罪主体变化、犯罪行为特点变化均有较大影响。     

Intimate Homicide and the Provocation Defence – Endangering Women? R v. Smith

This case note considers the availability in the United Kingdom of the provocation defence in cases of intimate homicide in the context of the recent House of Lords decision in Rv. Smith [2000] 3 W.L.R. 654. The note argues that the expansion of the objective component of the defence to encompass the mental infirmities of individual defendants is dangerous for women. Although it has the potential to help some abused women who kill to use the defence, it has, at the same time, exposed women who are abused by sexually possessive, violent men to even greater danger. It is thus argued that the defence should be restricted in the way envisaged by the minority judgement of Lord Millett so that abused women will still be able to use the defence, but by anon-medical route. Alternatively, the defence should be abolished and defences which pose no risk of encompassing violent men should be developed to accommodate abused women. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Fatal footsteps: murder of undocumented border crossers in Maricopa County, Arizona

In the past 5 years, the mortality rate among undocumented workers in Arizona has increased steadily. In 1998-1999, the number of deaths among border crossers was 28. That number increased dramatically in 1999-2000 to 106 and has exceeded 200 in each of the past 2 years. In the past, many immigrant deaths occurred as a result of dehydration and exposure (1). More recently, a new trend has emerged, that is, death of border crossers at the hands of the persons ("coyotes") hired to lead them across the border to safety. In some cases, the smugglers attempt to extort additional money from the families by holding the victims hostage once they have crossed the border into the United States. If the families fail to pay, the hostage is killed. Rival gangs are also murdering one another over their human cargo. Nine recent cases illustrate this trend in Maricopa County. In each example, the victims were bound, shot (or in one instance stabbed) and dumped in a remote desert area. All of the decedents were linked to murder for extortion by the 'coyotes' or rival gang members.     

Histologic evidence of repetitive blunt force abdominal trauma in four pediatric fatalities

In cases of acute fatal child abuse, certain injuries, including cutaneous blunt force trauma, skull fractures, subdural hematomas, intra-abdominal hemorrhage, and retinal hemorrhages are common and well described in the pediatric and forensic literature. These gross findings at autopsy, when taken into consideration with scene investigation and interviews with caregivers, may indicate both a clear manner and cause of death. In such cases, the discovery of additional pathologic changes attributable to older abusive injuries helps support a conclusion of death due to inflicted trauma. We discuss four cases of fatal child abuse in which acute blunt force abdominal trauma was the cause of death. In each of these cases, careful examination with proper sectioning and microscopy of select abdominal tissues revealed that the acute tissue trauma was superimposed on a background of older, healing injury. This older trauma was characterized by classic histologic elements of tissue repair, including fibroblast proliferation, early scar formation, increased vascularity, and hemosiderin-laden macrophages. Iron and trichrome stains were used to confirm the presence of hemosiderin and fibrosis in all four cases, but the recognition of fibroblast proliferation and a reactive vascular pattern was best seen on routine hematoxylin and eosin stains. The gross and microscopic autopsy findings, along with available investigative information, established the diagnosis of chronic physical abuse.     

Police officers who commit suicide by cop: a clinical study with analysis

Suicide by cop has become a familiar topic among members of law enforcement, mental health professionals, and the general public. This paper presents two cases where police officers chose to commit suicide by getting other police officers to kill them. The two police officers studied, by examination of closed case files, were found to be similar to civilians who committed suicide by cop on several demographic (gender, age, history of mental illness, and suicide attempts), and situational (stress factors, trigger) variables. The cases help us to understand possible motives and management for individuals who choose to end their life in this manner.     

析“飞车抢夺”犯罪的发展趋势及对策

经过三十多年的改革开放,社会已由封闭式走向开放式,由静态社会逐步发展为动态社会,经济在飞速发展。在这个背景下,出现了＂飞车抢夺＂犯罪。随着时间的推移,公安部门的打击,社会的防范,＂飞车抢夺＂犯罪也在逐步升级,带来的危害也越来越大,实务部门在思想上要充分认识到此类犯罪的严重性,在战术上要改变对策,建立一整套行之有效的打击＂飞车抢夺＂犯罪的对策。     

Police and the War on Women: A Gender-Linked Examination Behind and In Front of the Blue Curtain

The war on women was a term coined during the 2012 election cycle that referred to attempts to pass legislation that would limit women's rights, from control of women's bodies (with a particular focus on birth control, abortion, and the aftereffects of rape) to equal pay for women and their rights in the workforce (M. E. Gilman, 2014 Gilman, M. E. (2014). Feminism, democracy, and the “war on women.” Law & Inequality, 32, 1–30. [Google Scholar]). One arena in which evidence of such a war's impact on women may be assessed is behind and in front of the blue curtain of policing. To what extent, then, does policing reflect culture that supports and facilitates a war on women? We review arrest trends for female offenders, discuss police responses to crimes against women, and examine policies and practices that may improve understanding of the criminal justice system's role in this war. We find evidence of changes in police perspectives, actions, and policies toward women as perpetrators and victims of crime. Specifically, at the same time that police undertook more aggressive enforcement efforts against certain types of female offenders, resulting in trends for women that were often the reverse of those for men, there was an absence of similar attention to laws and policies protecting women as victims.