Redemption and reproach: Religion and carceral control in action among women in prison

Criminologists are increasingly interested in how a variety of justice-adjacent institutions scaffold surveillance and punishment in the U.S. criminal justice system. A relevant but understudied institution within the carceral state is that of religion. Drawing on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women's prison, I interrogate how religion—predominately conservative and evangelical Protestantism—served dual purposes in light of carceral control. Religion offered redemptive narratives to counter punitive carceral narratives promulgated by the state. At the same time, this narrative shift from “flawed” to “faithful” prescribed particular forms of embodiment: avoiding fights and rejecting sexual relationships with women. These forms of Protestant embodiment aligned with carceral purposes, such that women who reprimanded others for breaching religious norms were simultaneously enforcing prison rules. Although rhetorically challenging official prison narratives on the meaning of incarceration, Protestant narratives in practice regulated women's emotional and sexual behaviors and fostered a system of informal surveillance among incarcerated women. These findings illuminate how organizational narratives are linked to individual action. More broadly, they suggest how an institution such as religion can undergird state authority within an intractable context of carceral control.     

认罪认罚阶梯式从宽量刑精准化研究——兼评《关于适用认罪认罚从宽制度的指导意见》

《关于适用认罪认罚从宽制度的指导意见》细化了认罪认罚的从宽规则,肯定了阶梯式从宽量刑的指导思想,但其在从宽量刑精细化方面仍有不足。认罪认罚客观上存在一个与教育改善难易度和办案价值量相对应的阶梯式等级体系。在设定认罪认罚阶梯式从宽量刑幅度时,应当以教育改善的难易度、办案价值量两个因素为主线。根据教育改善难易度的大小,可以将认罪认罚划分为自首型、坦白型、功利型三个类别;根据办案价值量的大小,可以将认罪认罚划分为三个价值级别。根据认罪认罚的"三个类别"和"三个级别"之间的组合,认罪认罚形成九梯度的等级体系。九梯度的等级体系,最高从宽幅度可以减少基准刑的70%至免除处罚,最低从宽幅度可以减少基准刑的5%以下。     

Troubling notions of farmer choice: hybrid Bt cotton seed production in western India

The debate over agricultural biotechnology is increasingly being centered on the question of farmer choice. Advocates for biotechnology argue that farmers should be able to choose the seeds and technologies they use, and therefore these new technologies should be legalized and made available immediately. Who would deny farmers of the global South their right to choose? But these discourses of choice and freedom are being deployed to market a particular kind of development. This neoliberal development of agriculture is leading to the individualization of risk, the shifting of risk to marginalized contract farming households, and greater control for wealthier farmers, seed companies and agents. The state of Gujarat, India, is seen as a success story of hybrid Bt cotton, in which farmers have their choice of hundreds of varieties of seeds. As cotton seed production is taking off in the neighboring state of Rajasthan, however, choosing Bt cotton has different implications and meanings altogether. Drawing on eight months of qualitative research with adivasi households in Dungarpur District, Rajasthan, I offer narrative accounts from farmers and seed agents that both explore and trouble neoliberal notions of farmer choice. The use of these discourses by biotech advocates is just one example of the ways that choice and freedom are being utilized to further neoliberal development.     

Vulnerability,Agency and the Ambivalence of Place in Narratives of Rape in Three High-Profile Swedish Cases

For decades, the media have frequently been instrumental in framing rape cases by linking the deed with the place. This study demonstrates that law courts are not innocent of such social framing; on the contrary, they are significant agents. We argue that courts, by shaping the plot in rape cases, participate in an ongoing cultural production of meaning, although in a more subtle and ambivalent way than the media. In a narrative analysis of three contemporary rape cases in Sweden, we bring together feminist research on place with the concepts of vulnerability and agency. We argue that place is framed as ambivalent in relation to vulnerability and agency, and dependent on the positioning of plaintiff and defendant. In court narratives, geographical places are made relevant, including the locations where the alleged rapes took place. Court narratives of rape include highly ambivalent connotations with place in relation to vulnerability and agency, distinguished by different narratives and outcomes in the various instances. The legal and social implications of our work should include an awareness of the relevance of place in relation to rape.     

规范的构成要件要素

由价值关系的概念或评价概念所表述的构成要件要素,是规范的构成要件要素。规范的构成要件要素分为法律的评价要素、经验法则的评价要素与社会的评价要素。规范的构成要件要素并不等同于不明确的构成要件要素,相反具有存在的合理根据与积极意义。法官应当以特定的违法性为导向理解规范的构成要件要素,并根据规范的构成要件要素的不同类型,采用相应的评价标准判断案件事实是否符合规范的构成要件要素。     

论新型农村金融组织市场退出的法律监管

我国新型农村金融组织市场退出监管的制度建设尚处于探索初期,在实践运行中也暴露出诸多弊端。因此,在建设现代农村金融制度的背景下,对比总结村镇银行、小额贷款公司与资金互助社在经营管理和支农方式上的异同,并在此基础上进行差别化的市场退出监管制度设计,无疑对回应新世纪我国农村金融监管实践、完善新型农村金融组织法律制度具有重要的理论价值与现实意义。     

“9/11 is alive and well” or how critical terrorism studies has sustained the 9/11 narrative

ABSTRACT

This article argues that despite engaging in a powerful critique of the construction of the attacks of 11 September 2001 (or “9/11”) as temporal break, critical terrorism scholars have sustained and reproduced this same construction of “9/11”. Through a systematic analysis of the research articles published in Critical Studies on Terrorism, this article illustrates how critical scholars have overall failed to extricate themselves from this dominant narrative, as they inhabit the same visual, emotional and professional landscape as those they critique. After examining how CTS has reproduced but also renegotiated this narrative, the article concludes with what Michel Foucault would describe as an “effective history” of the attacks – in this case, a personal narrative of how the attacks did not constitute a moment of personal rupture but nonetheless later became a backdrop to justify my scholarship and career. It ends with a renewal of Maya Zeyfuss’ call to forget “9/11”.     

创新社会化维权机制构建工会大维权格局

构建工会开放型、法制化、社会化、全方位大维权新格局,应从其层级结构、组织基础、运行机制、基本原则、基本载体、国际环境、工作重点、开放模式、干部队伍以及组织评估体系等方面建立较完备的体系,以体现中国特色社会主义工会道路科学维权观的要求。     

同盟视野探析

同盟视野是指缔结同盟的国家通过同盟所要追求的以安全、军事为主的关切范围,它主要通过同盟条约中的同盟覆盖区域的形式体现.关切主要是一种基于利益之上的主观判断,覆盖区域主要是基于利益之上对地理空间范围的主观判断,因此,同盟视野既具有客观的地理性,又具有主观的判断性.同盟视野不同于同盟目标和同盟针对对象.同盟视野概念的提出有利于理解同盟这一概念,从而有利于进一步构建和丰富同盟理论.同盟视野是同盟得以存在的实质性内涵和逻辑支撑之一.同盟视野重合程度高,则同盟持续的时间长,运行更有效;反之,则同盟持续的时间短,运行效率低.同盟视野的类型分为地区性与全球性、静态性与动态性,同盟类型的不同及其转化对同盟存续意义重大.     

断奶仔猪多系统衰竭综合征淋巴结与脾损伤的病理学观察

对通过临床特征与PCR确诊为断奶仔猪多系统衰竭综合征的8例自然病例进行剖检取材,常规石蜡切片与超薄切片,HE染色及醋酸铀一柠檬酸铅染色,观察了淋巴结与脾的病理学变化.肉眼观察可见淋巴结肿大,特别是腹股沟淋巴结、肠系膜淋巴结与肺门淋巴结明显肿大;脾萎缩或中度肿大.组织学观察显示,淋巴结与脾淋巴细胞坏死,数量明显减少,网状内皮细胞增生与巨噬细胞浸润,在一些网状内皮细胞与巨噬细胞的胞浆内见嗜碱性包涵体.超微结构观察显示,淋巴结与脾淋巴细胞线粒体肿胀,内质网扩张,核浓缩,边集,甚至形成凋亡小体;在巨噬细胞与网状内皮细胞核和胞浆内均可见包涵体,包涵体为大小不等,圆形、椭圆形或不规则形的均质或颗粒状2种类型,胞浆包涵体常见于肿胀的线粒体与扩张的内质网附近.表明断奶仔猪患多系统衰竭综合征可致淋巴结与脾淋巴细胞坏死、凋亡,淋巴细胞数量减少.