Domestic Violence Victims Support Mandatory Reporting: For Others

Five states now have mandatory reporting laws when a victim of domestic violence is identified in a clinical setting, and many other states are considering such legislation. Advocates for battered women have frequently warned that abused women may not wish mandatory reporting laws. Published data derived from the opinions, wishes, and beliefs of women victims of domestic violence have been noticeably lacking. This study presents a preliminary study of 45 abused women. Results indicate that women victims overwhelmingly support mandatory reporting laws. In an apparent paradox, however, they were much less certain that mandatory reporting would have been helpful to them in their specific case.     

非洲国家外商投资法的基本特征

形成非洲国家的投资环境有种种因素,包括政治、经济、文化乃至心理的因素,但其中起决定性作用的则是法律因素。大部分非洲国家都在积极致力于经济发展,采取各种措施吸引外资,特别是制定和修改了外资法或投资法。根据这些投资法和吸引外资政策,我们发现非洲投资法具有投资立法目标比较明确、投资条件比较宽松、投资优惠政策明显、投资安全基本有保障、区域与国际投资合作正在加强等特征。     

关于确立侦查公开制度的几点思考

在侦查讯问过程中,犯罪嫌疑人出于本能的沉默、申辩与侦查人员强烈的追诉倾向之间很容易发生激烈的对抗,为防止侦查人员利用国家权力的优势地位侵害犯罪嫌疑人的合法权益,有必要引入机制来制衡侦查人员。因此,侦查活动应当同审判一样,本着公开、公正的原则进行。但这种公开应该限定在法律范围内,而且公开的对象和方式也必须在立法中明确规定。     

进一步完善我国失业保险制度的几点思考

失业保险制度,在我国才有19年的历史.19年来,它保障了失业人员的基本生活,促进了失业人员的再就业,有力地支持了企业改革.但它还很不完善.本文从我国实际出发,借鉴国外一些好的做法,对如何进一步完善我国的失业保险制度做出几点思考.     

我国诱惑侦查制度的立法建构

诱惑侦查作为一种特殊的侦查手段,已为我国侦查机关广泛运用,但由于我国的立法对此未作出具体明确的规定,衍生出一系列的问题。因此,我国应在考察、借鉴各主要法治国家处理诱惑侦查经验的基础上,明确承认和规制我国的诱惑侦查,从而促进刑事侦查法制的改进与完善。     

Politics of Evidence: The Communication of Evidence by ‘Stakeholders’ when Advocating for Tobacco Point‐of‐sale Display Bans in Australia

There is a tension in the policy field about the way that the policy process should occur and the manner in which evidence should inform policy decisions. This article presents findings from a qualitative study on the introduction of point‐of‐sale tobacco display bans in Australia to provide an insight into the way this public policy was introduced and the way that evidence was used and communicated to influence the policy outcome. This study highlights that tobacco control policy does not merely consist of a series of segmented and unconnected decisions. It is an ongoing process, whereby the acceptability of forms of knowledge has shifted over time. This has enabled the introduction of tobacco control initiatives on the basis of good judgement when there is a paucity of specific evaluation information to support a policy's introduction.     

The existing tensions in the defining of human trafficking at a UK and international level: a critical overview

Human trafficking is an ancient trade that took several forms over the centuries, from full blown state-perpetrated slavery through to illegal exploitative employment of migrants in the sex and other labor industries. At the start of the twenty-first century, a new definition of human trafficking was produced by the United Nations, within which are contained terms such as “coercion,” “deception,” “abuse of power” and “consent.” While the definition itself has largely been agreed upon, deep divisions – about the interpretation of those terms within the definition – continue to polarize the views of antagonizing political and feminist lobbying groups. The agreement on the definition seems to have served little in ironing the differences and the debates continue to be fuelled. In this article, the author elaborates on the tensions that surround the interpretation of the definition and argues that the main group to have fallen victim to the relevant yet inept international and individual state regulations is the trafficked people, while the traffickers tend to largely escape punishment. Rectifying the situation can be extremely challenging and requires sustained and large scale multinational collaborative work. So far, only little is being done to address the problem and the expectation is that it will become significantly worse before it eventually gets better.     

网络犯罪的刑法规制论

由于网络犯罪的隐蔽性、远程性、无地域性等特点，致使传统刑法在规制网络犯罪之时往往举步维艰。本文从网络犯罪的刑法界定引出，通过有针对性地考察西方主要发达国家的网络犯罪刑事立法和打击网络犯罪的国际公约，归纳域外刑法规制网络犯罪的有效经验，通过比较和借鉴，分析我国现行刑法在规制网络犯罪方面的诸多缺陷。进而提出了完善我国现行刑法的具体建议。     

刑事公诉案件撤回：固守与放开之间

撤回公诉，作为公诉权的一项重要权能，涉及到对被告人刑事责任的认定和权利的救济。世界上多数国家和地区根据实际情况的需要，都赋予检察机关不同程度的撤回公诉权。目前，在我国，由于立法的缺位，撤回公诉制度在理论上是一个薄弱环节，实践中也存在许多亟待解决的问题。本文在肯定撤回公诉正当性的基础上，结合我国公诉撤回实践中存在的问题，对我国撤回公诉制度的完善提出几点初步设想。     

试论实现法治政府目标的路径

法治政府的建构是一个庞大的系统工程,它应从立法、执行和监督系统全面推进。要建立民主科学、立法为民的行政立法体系,重新确定行政立法的主体,限制政府权力,突出公共服务观念,建立民主立法机制,构建法治政府的指标体系。要建设高素质行政管理队伍,规范行政管理行为,健全以人为本的公开决策机制,创设长效的行政执法方式机制,注重行政行为的程序合法性。要加强监督制度建设,实现从权力政府到责任政府的转变,完善行政监督机制,构建全方位的监督体系。